1215966 - Allow to set calendar.agendaListbox.soondays to value above 28

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Preferences, enhancement, P5)

Description

[u552924]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150525141253

Steps to reproduce:

-Go to configuration editor: Settings - Advanced - Configuration (about:config)
-Find value calendar.agendaListbox.soondays
-Set calendar.agendaListbox.soondays to a value > 28, like 100.


Actual results:

-Value is reset to 28.
-The function calendar/agenda-listbox.js:1158:getSoondaysPreference() checks for values over 28 and resets them.


Expected results:

-Value should be set to value that I entered, like 100.
-Possible to have a better overview over my upcoming (rare) events over the next half of a year or year, instead of only the next month.
-At least via manual configuration, not necessarily over the drop-down list. Or maybe replace drop-down list by spinning edit for arbitrary numbers.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

The current behavior is on purpose and was added in Bug 455542 -> changing into a wish.

Comment 2

[u552924]

Can I somehow contribute this myself?

Comment 3

[Decathlon]

I had completely forgot this.
What do you think Philipp?
Many days in the upcoming section might slow down the performance with many calendars and events but with a few events (that's why a long upcoming list might be used) shouldn't be a problem.
I'm not contrary to increase the maximum number of days and also to use a numeric textbox for input (maybe displayed as weeks for multiples of 7 in the today pane), but allowing different maximum values for the preference when it has been set from the dialog or when edited from configuration editor doesn't seem a good idea.

Comment 4

[u552924]

Any news on this?
I just experienced again that keeping dates like birthdays, concerts, holidays and other long term events in mind with only 4 weeks ahead (I use the calendar only for private events and not for everyday meetings)

Comment 5

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

The today pane is not meant to track long timeframes, with 4 weeks ahead I think reminders should be used instead. What we could do is fill up with more events if there are only a few, but I think that wouldn't be very predictable and it would be even harder to explain from a UI standpoint.

I'm ok with allowing the power user to override a hidden preference value, but I don't think this should be possible in the UI.