426491 - Whole day events are not marked as busy

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[lind]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: Sunbird/7.0

If I insert a whole day event the time is marked as free. I would expect the default option should be time is marked as busy.

The following problem is, if I use a mobile device and synchronize (birdiesync) my Sunbird calendar. The event is not shown in the monthly view in the mobile device


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert an event
2. Mark the event as whole day event
3. Check "show time as" in the options-menu
Actual Results:  
The time is set to free

Expected Results:  
The time should be marked busy

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Questionable...

bug 399761 wants the exact opposite behavior (if you disregard the privacy bit). I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of the other one, please comment on that bug to express your wishes w.r.t bold allday events.

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

I don't think it's a duplicate. Bug 399761 is about display issues in minimonth. But this bug is about default values during event creation. At least there is no real bug here because the user just needs to set the corresponding menu option.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Reopening. This is not a duplicate of bug 399761.

Looking at the code, this seems to be a deliberate design decision, which was introduced with the new event dialog and further clarified in bug 373004. So this bug may be WONTFIX.

Here's the relevant code snippet:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=/mozilla/calendar/prototypes/wcap/sun-calendar-event-dialog.js&rev=1.67&mark=1015-1020#1010

I'm CC'ing our UI guru Christian here, so that he can make a final statement.

Christian, if this was a deliberate design decision, please mark this bug as WONTFIX, otherwise please comment accordingly.

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Here's the link to our spec. The relevant bits are right at the bottom of the paragraph.

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:SMB_Event_Dialog#Menu:_Options

Comment 5

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

(In reply to comment #2)
I agree with this comment; default for all-day event creation is different from displaying.

Comment 6

[Christian Jansen]

I would rate this bug a WONTFIX, because Lighning/Sunbird behaves in the same
way like other Calendar Apps do (Outlook, Google, iCal or Evolution). But in
general it is an usecase decision. We assumed cases like being on a trade fare
(all day, free) in combination with appointments (busy).