674188 - Dismiss All alarms safety

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

dissmissed all alarms


Actual results:

alarms disappeared


Expected results:

the correct thing happened. but there is no option to revered the dismiss all.
can a new feature be included where a list of the last 20-50 dismissed alarms is shown, so that if you want you can revert the dismiss all

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

The only thing we could do is add dismissing to the undo/redo queue, but I doubt thats a good idea. This means if you do a change, then dismiss your alarms and undo, you will in 90% of all cases want to undo the first change.

I could imagine an extension doing this, but I don't think this should be part of the main product.

Comment 2

[vknowles2000]

I hope it is okay to comment on an enhancement request this old.

To me, the problem of mistakenly dismissing all alarms is a serious one.

It could be reduced or essentially eliminated by one or both of the following:
1. Make the display of the Dismiss All button optional. The user could set an option to remove the button.
2. Display a confirmation dialog if the user clicks Dismiss All.

It should not be necessary to create an "undo" option to improve this.

Thanks for considering this.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

> 2. Display a confirmation dialog if the user clicks Dismiss All.

You could have almost the best of both worlds, vai an opt out #2's confirmation dialog on first use - much like Thunderbird compact prompt

Comment 4

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

I don't think we can provide this feature in a way that would work well for all users. I understand that it may be annoying if this can't be undone, but making any changes to this would either be hard to present in the UI, or fairly complicated on the technical side.

Adding another prompt to ask if the user wanted to dismiss all would certainly annoy users. I am also not a fan of interrupting the user with extra popups.

I'm going to close this bug as WONTFIX for now. Thank you though for taking the time to report this bug.

Comment 5

[Merike Sell (:merike)]

This sounds like dataloss if you accidentally click the button, a cat runs over the keyboard or smth similar. Isn't there some middle ground to avoid this? How about logging dismissing an alarm into activity manager similarly as is done for deleted and moved emails? Preferably with calendar name, event title and occurrence details if applicable? This way you could at least check what you dismissed if you realize your mistake later on.

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

There is bug 472483 for activity manager integration. Depending on how it is implemented, dimissals would show up or not. I'd consider this pretty much edge case, and dismissing an alarm is not really dataloss. The alarm window is not meant as a task list, the alarms should rather be dismissed than kept around as a reminder.