282563 - Alarm Clock functionality

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Ockay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

the ability to create an "alarm clock" that will either run the desired
command(start and play iTunes) or play a playlist.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

Reporter:
    Can you take a look at bug 137772 and bug 135593?  It seems like these bugs
already cover your request.  (137772 for launching iTunes or simply 135593 for
playing a user-defined sound.)  If you agree, please mark this bug as a
duplicate of one of those bugs.  If not, please say what makes it distinct.

Comment 2

[Daniel Ockay]

I'm not sure, I checked those out, and they seemed sort of similar, but, just to
clarify:

The functionality I'm talking about is and alarm like I would set at night in
order to wake up the next morning.  possibly with volume controls, iTunes
integration, the ability to play entire playlists(I like to have a "morning mix"
that is exactly 55 minutes long... then I leave whenever it's over)  
so it's not really an alarm to say, hey, go to your meeting, but to wake you up.

I wasn't quite getting that out of the other two you mentioned... if so, then,
it is a duplicate.

Comment 3

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #2)
Alright, I understand the difference, but I think you might be asking for a bit
too much.  It's one thing for one program to launch another, but to actively
manipulate it (select a playlist, change volume, etc) requires access to the
inner  functions of that program.  There's also the issue of people who use
Windows Media Player, WinAmp, XMMS, etc.  Can Sunbird reasonably be expected to
know how to manipulate all these programs?  That's why I suggested the duplicate
of bug 137772, simply launching the program.  It's your bug though, so it's your
decision.

Comment 4

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

I'm seriously against those kind of additions. It is a calendar, not an app that
has to talk to a lot of other programs to execute certain tasks. Your OS has
build-in support for that.

Comment 5

[Daniel Ockay]

shouldn't there be a way to just launch a playlist within any of those programs?
 because the problem with just launching any of those programs is that it
doesn't make it play...  
or maybe take sunbirds built in alarm a step further and have sunbird itself
read a playlist and play the entire playlist like it would play an alarm sound.
I don't know, it seems different, and also useful.  and it would make the
program more of something I would use from the very start to the very end of my
day ... 
I don't know

Comment 6

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

No, playlists is really not the area sunbird operates in. I'm sure there are a
ton of other alarmclock apps out there.

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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