Bug 434121

Summary: Allow non-interrupting reminders
Product: [Applications] korganizer Reporter: zocker.network
Component: reminder daemon (korgac) [CLOSED: Use Reminder Daemon product]Assignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: gjditchfield, marco.rubin, tusooa, vkrause, winter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.15.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description zocker.network 2021-03-07 20:48:20 UTC 
I used reminders often on my phone and now began to sync my calendar to KOrganizer. Reminders on my phone are similar to an incomming SMS message, displayed as common notification not interrupting me. But KOrganizer reminds me with an dialog window popping up over what I'm currently working on. This interrupts me heavily and is not what I was expecting. KDE Connect seems to fulfill my expectations as it forwards my reminder notification from my phone to my computer without interrupting me.

However KDE Connect requires my phone to be turned on and being in the same network (which is not always the case) and so it would be better if KOrganizer could do this on its own in a good way.

Enabling such a feature using a global option would be really great.
Comment 1 Allen Winter 2021-03-08 20:41:29 UTC 
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.. but maybe we already have this feature.

look in the bottom left area for the calendar manager.
right-mouse context menu on the calendar you want manage.
select Folder Properties.
click "Block reminders locally"

repeat for all calendars you want to block.

terrible UI, I agree.  let me know if this does what you want
Comment 2 zocker.network 2021-03-08 23:25:12 UTC 
No. This only helps me as long as KDE Connect syncs calendar reminders from my phone to my PC.

I want to change KOrganizer current behavior of reminding the user using a dialog to using simple notifications. To clarify, it would be good enough if on every reminder, KOrganizer does instead call:
$ notify-send -t 0 "Reminder for <APPOINTMENT> at <TIME>"
I wish such kind of notifications for me.
Comment 3 tusooa 2021-09-09 16:18:40 UTC 
Can confirm. I will work on a fix.
Comment 4 gjditchfield 2021-09-09 17:16:48 UTC 
(In reply to Tusooa Zhu from comment #3)
> Can confirm. I will work on a fix.

Great!  Just in case you're not on the kde-pim mailing list, there is a related discussion at https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-pim/2021-August/047780.html and the start of a merge request at https://invent.kde.org/pim/korganizer/-/merge_requests/43/diffs#note_287809
Comment 5 gjditchfield 2021-09-09 17:32:35 UTC 
*** Bug 429372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 tusooa 2021-09-09 22:58:12 UTC 
(In reply to gjditchfield from comment #4)
> (In reply to Tusooa Zhu from comment #3)
> > Can confirm. I will work on a fix.
> 
> Great!  Just in case you're not on the kde-pim mailing list, there is a
> related discussion at
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-pim/2021-August/047780.html and the start
> of a merge request at
> https://invent.kde.org/pim/korganizer/-/merge_requests/43/diffs#note_287809

Thanks a lot for telling me about that. It sounds pretty insightful.
Comment 7 Volker Krause 2021-09-12 08:39:38 UTC 
(In reply to Tusooa Zhu from comment #3)
> Can confirm. I will work on a fix.

Great :) Glen pointed out the current plans/discussions regarding reminders already, another relevant thing to look at is https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/calindori/-/tree/master/calindac, which might contain some reusable code for the notifications already.
Comment 8 gjditchfield 2022-05-20 23:52:58 UTC 
korgac has been replaced by a new reminder daemon, kalendarac, in version 22.04.0 (5.20.0).
It uses notifications to display reminders.