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Peter Lairo

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Apr 11, 2013, 2:56:58 AM4/11/13
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On Mi. 10.04.2013 23:29, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
> On 4/10/13 4:01 AM, Bill Braun wrote:
>> TB 17.0.5, Lightning 1.9.1
>>
>> Reminders are appearing that I cannot dismiss. It happens (I am fairly
>> certain) when a reminder appears after an event has passed. For example,
>> I have an appointment on Tuesday, 2 PM. I do not open Lightning until I
>> return at 4 PM. The reminder for the 2 PM event appears.
>>
>> When the dialogue box opens, the text in the Title Bar says "1 Reminder"
>> (in my example). When I click Dismiss, the text in the Title Bar brief
>> changes to "0 Reminders", then reverts back to "1 Reminder".
>>
>> When I click on the upper right [X] to close the dialogue box, it does
>> close, then promptly reopens with "1 Reminder" in the Title Bar.
>>
>> Anyone else experience this? Any thoughts on what might be happening?
>>
>> Thank,
>>
>> Bill
>
> Hey Folks,
>
> I have someone from the team looking into this. It might indeed be an
> issue on Google's side, we will either report it to them or check if we
> can work around client side.

That's good to hear. Thanks! (And it's encouraging to hear that there is
a "team". :-) )

I'm not getting this problem with my same calendars on my Android 4.1.2
phone, and there hasn't been an Android update for my phone in months.
So this seems to indicate that the problem might be with Lightning.

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Philipp Kewisch

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Apr 11, 2013, 10:03:32 AM4/11/13
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On 4/11/13 8:56 AM, Peter Lairo wrote:

>>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> I have someone from the team looking into this. It might indeed be an
>> issue on Google's side, we will either report it to them or check if we
>> can work around client side.
>
> That's good to hear. Thanks! (And it's encouraging to hear that there is
> a "team". :-) )

Don't take that too broadly, we don't have any more contributors than
before. Of course its not just me working on the project, so I didn't
want to write "I".

>
> I'm not getting this problem with my same calendars on my Android 4.1.2
> phone, and there hasn't been an Android update for my phone in months.
> So this seems to indicate that the problem might be with Lightning.

This also happens with release builds, where we didn't change anything.
The problem seems to be that Google no longer roundtrips X-Props
correctly, which we rely on for alarms.


Philipp

Stefan Sitter

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Apr 15, 2013, 4:15:41 PM4/15/13
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On 11.04.2013 16:03, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
> This also happens with release builds, where we didn't change
> anything. The problem seems to be that Google no longer roundtrips
> X-Props correctly, which we rely on for alarms.

Any update on this problem? Has this been confirmed as a regression that
might be caused by changes in Google Calendar CalDAV server?

Stefan

Philipp Kewisch

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Apr 16, 2013, 4:33:44 AM4/16/13
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I've reopened their issue at
http://code.google.com/p/google-caldav-issues/issues/detail?id=25 and
hope they will take care.

Philipp

Peter Lairo

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Apr 16, 2013, 9:36:06 AM4/16/13
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Peter Lairo

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Apr 16, 2013, 9:46:01 AM4/16/13
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On Do. 11.04.2013 08:56, Peter Lairo wrote:
> On Mi. 10.04.2013 23:29, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
>> On 4/10/13 4:01 AM, Bill Braun wrote:
>>> TB 17.0.5, Lightning 1.9.1
>>>
>>> Reminders are appearing that I cannot dismiss.

This seems to be a bug at Google's end.

Here's a workaround[1]:
As a workaround you can disable alarms by unchecking "Show Alarms" in
the calendar properties dialog.

[1]by Philipp Kewisch. Source:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/reviews/452618/

Here's another workaround (that *might* work):
My alarm dialog went away after I set: Tools / Options / Calendar /
Reminders, and deselected "[ ] Show the reminder dialog". Since I have
15 CalDAV calendars, that was the simpler solution (only 1 procedure
instead of 15).

Please add other workarounds (and comments on and corrections to
workarounds already posted here) to this thread.

Matthew Mecca

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Apr 16, 2013, 10:32:15 AM4/16/13
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On 04/16/2013 09:46 AM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> Please add other workarounds (and comments on and corrections to
> workarounds already posted here) to this thread.

Here's another workaround that will simulate a snooze or dismiss in the
mean time:

1) When the reminder pops up, click the "Details..." link under the
event title.
2) Make a change to the event's title, such as adding a space to the end
3) Change the reminder setting to "No Reminder" to dismiss it, or select
"Custom" and choose a specific future time to snooze it.
4) Click "Save and Close".
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