357663 - Per calendar settings (e.g. default alarm)

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Many of the global settings in Calendar/Sunbird/Lightning should be per-calendar. For example, the default alarm options, event length, etc. Currently, the only per calendar setting is the default event color.

Use case: Peter has one calendar called "Birthdays & Anniversaries" and another one called "Work". 

The first calendar contains the birthdays and anniversaries for all of his friends and co-workers. By default, the event length should be "All Day" and the alarm should be set to trigger three days before, to give Peter a chance to buy a present.

The second calendar contains e.g. meetings and other work related things. The default event length should be one hour and the alarm should trigger 15 minutes before the event, so Peter can prepare for the meeting (usually just getting a cup of coffee and printing out a few documents).

Comment 1

[Pete Riley]

I like this idea a lot.

However, I put all of my events (appointments/birthdays/multidays) into a single calendar file and will eventually distinguish them with different categories (after Lightning has this feature) rather than with different calendars.

So for me it would work better on a per-category basis rather than (or in addition to) per-calendar.

For what it's worth, if it was on a per-category basis, it seems to me that you could still achieve what you want (e.g. by matching a relevant category to each calendar), and then it would also work for people like me who only use one calendar file.  In this case, perhaps each calendar should be able to specify a default category in its properties so that the category will be pre-selected when you open the dialog to create a new event?