1569977 - Lightning alarm postponement

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Calendar :: Alarms, enhancement)

Description

[l0f4r0]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.145 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/2.6.1566.49

Steps to reproduce:

Requirement: having an event with an alarm, let's say the event start at 17:00 and alarm has been set up at 10:00.
At 10:00 Thunderbird triggers the alarm/reminder.

Actual results:

The postponement options for the alarm are only related to current time (now + X time).

Expected results:

It could be useful to allow the user to postpone the alarm with some time related to the event start time (start time - X time).
In our example, user would be so able to postpone the alarm to have it ring again 1h before the event.

Comment 1

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

You can't do that using the "Snooze for" dialog in the Reminder, selecting a number, selecting Minutes, Hours or Days from the drop down and clicking the check mark?

That choice appears right under the 1 Day entry in the Reminder.

Comment 2

[l0f4r0]

(In reply to WaltS48 [:walts48] from comment #1)

You can't do that using the "Snooze for" dialog in the Reminder, selecting a number, selecting Minutes, Hours or Days from the drop down and clicking the check mark?

Yes sure but it forces user to calculate the good timing.
It's just more handy this way, especially when you are in a hurry and have multiple reminders at once for different events at different times ;)
I think Outlook can do it...

Comment 3

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

It appears to me the user has the tool to do what you ask.

You want the extension to do the calculations for you?

Comment 4

[l0f4r0]

(In reply to WaltS48 [:walts48] from comment #3)

It appears to me the user has the tool to do what you ask.
You want the extension to do the calculations for you?

Sort of... but I would prefer an option to change the reference frame so the timing chosen is not related to the current time but the event start time.
It would be easier this way (no calculations needed) ;)