371809 - Task dialog: Disable repeat drop-down menu for VTODO with no DTSTART

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Omar Bajraszewski]

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Actually when you open task dialog start and due date are not checked and set. But repeat dropdown menu is enabled and it shouldn't.

Reproducible: Always




lightning-wcap.xpi (26/02/2007)
Thunderbird version 2.0pre (20070226)

Comment 1

[Omar Bajraszewski]

Attachment: Repeat drop down menu is enabled and it shouldn't be

Comment 2

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

A VTODO with no DTSTART can't have a recurrence rule. -> CONFIRMED

Comment 3

[Michael Büttner (no reviews TFN)]

Taking this one.

Comment 4

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

IMO it makes sense to e.g. specify VTODOs with only DUE and RRULE. So I think we should disable the recurrence specifier only if neither start nor due is set (referring to bug 383462 here).

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Oops, sorry, my bad, returning to the right component, awfully sorry about stomping your target milestone, please send hatemail to this address :(

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Decathlon, this seems like the kind of bug that might interest you. If your time is limited, I'd appreciate reviews first though :-)

Comment 7

[Matthew Mecca [:mmecca]]

I actually prefer the way this works now - the repeat drop-down is always enabled, but changing the repeat setting to a value other than "Does not repeat" causes the Start Date to be set, and prevents it from being unset by disabling the checkbox.

Also I think that if the repeat drop-down is initially disabled for new tasks, the reason why might not be clear to the user. 

My vote is WONTFIX.

Comment 8

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Ah right, makes sense. I misread this bug, it sounded like it was possible to create VTODOs without a DTSTART but with a RRULE.