1934069 - Set show missed reminders option false by default

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Alarms, task)

Description

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

This might be one of the most annoying features of Thunderbird.
Whenever I set a new account and connect my calendars, I get bombarded by hundreds of missed reminders for past repeated events, and it's impossible to dismiss them all at once.
There are some reminders that don't go away at all, but that's another problem and we will need to rebuild this mechanism.

For now, I propose disabling the Show missed reminders for writable calendars option and set it to false.
I don't find this feature useful and it's more annoying than anything else.

Comment 1

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Attachment: Bug 1934069 - Set show missed reminders preference to false by default. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

Comment 2

[Ryan Lee Sipes]

I propose disabling it for all profiles, not just new profiles. We have seen complaints about this various times and folks don't really know how to resolve it, especially in the case of the un-dismissable past reminder.

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

The downside to changing the default is that you'll have people who knew how to use it and miss alarms because the setting changed without them knowing. Missing alarms isn't great if you rely on them to appear when you start Thunderbird.

Comment 4

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Let's go forward with this and disable this feature since it causes more problems than anything else.
We'll go through a substantial calendar rework this cycle so we'll fix all the past reminders issue with time.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/fe544268cecc
Set show missed reminders preference to false by default. r=vineet,mkmelin

Comment 6

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Backed out changes for causing test failures: https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/5ddea4f72817b135f7707b50b847b4f94b28a07e

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/43281add0c61
Set show missed reminders preference to false by default. r=vineet,mkmelin