Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: Unspecified Linux It would be nice if when the pointer is over the kalarm icon in the traybar that it would pop a tooltip containing the current list of alarms, with the time, and the remaining time to that alarm. Thank you.
Subject: Re: New: tooltip showing the current alarms, etc. Am I right in thinking that this request is asking for the contents of KAlarm's main window to be displayed as a tooltip? If so, I am doubtful about it - why not click on the icon to display the main window? Also, if a lot of alarms are configured (I know that some users sometimes have 20 or 30 alarms set up), the tooltip could cover half the screen.
Yes you're, more or less right. I'm not taking about a comprehensive list of every alarm, the idea of the tooltip was just as something fast and handy, so, limiting it to some number of alarms (configurable ? 5 ? 7?) and just showing the first line of the alarm text. Maybe, this should be able to be disabled if it can be anoying. I think it's important to show the remaining time... I know some people that could do a good use of that (in the tooltip and the normal view). The use I found is "how much time do I have to do this or that ?" Thanks.
Subject: Re: tooltip showing the current alarms, etc. You ask to show the remaining time. Do you mean the number of hours/days/whatever until the alarm occurs (or until its next recurrence)?
I mean something like: Meeting at the bar 20:45 Time to alarm: 3:45 My favourite movie 22:00 Time to alarm: 5:00 [...] or you can have two modes, one for absolute time, and one for time to the alarm (remember, this is a handy overview, if you really want to know the data, you open the main view) The two modes would show: Meeting at the bar 20:45 My favourite movie 22:00 or Meeting at the bar -3:45 My favourite movie -5:00 Thanks
Progress report: I am currently working abroad without access to a Linux system. I may be able to implement this feature in July, but it could be later...
Thinking about the user interface for this feature, there are a number of different ways of implementing it. Here is my proposal - please tell me what you think. In the main window, there would be an option under the View menu (with a hotkey) to toggle between displaying alarm times (as at present) or time-to- alarm. Time-to-alarm mode would display the time to the alarms only for alarms which are scheduled for today. Other alarms would still display their scheduled time. This could perhaps be made configurable - optionally, time-to-alarm mode could display all non-expired alarms as either hours:minutes to the alarm (for alarms due today) or days to the alarm (for all other alarms). Another possibility for the main window is to display a tooltip showing time-to- alarm when the mouse hovers over any particular alarm. In the system tray, the tooltip would only list display-type alarms (i.e. message and file alarms) which are due today, up to a maximum of 5 (configurable). (The following could also perhaps be made configurable: the types of alarms to be listed; and whether only today's alarms are listed.) I suggest the following format which displays both time modes and is compact - if you think that it might be difficult for the average user to interpret, tell me. Meeting at the bar 20:45 (+3:45) My favourite movie 22:00 (+5:00)
Ok, About the main window. I would make configurable, which columns are shown (as well as the position like the way it is now) and have a column with the 'time of the alarm' and another with the 'time to the alarm' (not shown by default ?), the user can keep whatever he wants and arrange it in the way he wants. I would show the time to the alarm for all the alarm in this way: "days hours:minutes:seconds" For the tooltip, that's right, I totally agree, except that I would use the - (minus) sign in the remaining time: Meeting at the bar 20:45 (-3:45) My favourite movie 22:00 (-5:00) Thanks
This is now implemented in CVS, and in the new version of KAlarm available from the KAlarm homepage. It will be in KDE 3.2. The prefix used to indicate the remaining time defaults to '+', but is configurable.
it seems that this feature does not work anymore in version 1.4.5. Just "KAlarm" tooltip appears although all conditions for showing something more are met (checkbox in cfg is on, some alarms are scheduled to happen soon) env: KDE 3.5.5, Gentoo Linux/x86, gcc version 4.1.1
This wish list item is closed. If you want to raise this as a bug, please open a new bug report. Having said that, it works on my system (version 1.4.10). If you open a bug report, please attach your config file ($KDEHOME/share/config/kalarmrc).