[Design] [D/F] Other's alarms

[Morgen Sagen]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
>> In my opinion, I almost NEVER would want alarms from other's  
>> calendars.
>> If I want an alarm for an event, I probably would duplicate that  
>> event
>> on one of my own calendars. I wish there would be a preference not to
>> import the alarms when subscribing even if the publisher made the  
>> alarms
>> available.
>
> This does seem like a useful feature.  The UI side of this is pretty
> trivial (although it'll clutter subscription workflows).   
> Unfortunately,
> the data side is a wee bit tricky (at least for read-write shares)  
> since
> we need to preserve the alarms when we edit the events.
>
> I think getting this to work and testing it is probably a day or  
> two of
> work, I'm not sure we can fit that work in before preview, but it
> certainly seems worthy of prioritizing.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>
> Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design

When we finish the new sharing work, each individual will be able to  
choose whether they want to share alarms.  Just because the publisher  
chose to share them, won't mean you have to accept them -- you'll be  
able to set your own alarms that are independent of what's on the  
server.  This is because very soon we will be sending "diffs" back  
and forth to Cosmo, and the client will be able to ignore any values  
it's not interested in.  I don't know if such a feature will be  
supported in the case where Chandler shares with a vanilla CalDAV  
server.