[Gpe-list] gpe-calendar and native alarm functionality on Nokia internet tablets

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

Fyodor schrieb:
> o The alarm does not go off unless the power is on and the calendar
>   app is running (it can be minimized).  The "clock" app which ships
>   with the device has simple alarm functionality which can wake the
>   device and works even when clock is not running.

> o The alarm sound tone is pretty lound and grating (sounds like a
>   siren) and I haven't found a way to configure it yet.  I can
>   probably figure it out by digging into the internals, but it would
>   be nice if the application shipped with a few sounds we could choose
>   from in the GUI.  The default "clock" alarm does this.  A great
>   feature of the default "clock" alarms is that some of them start out
>   really quiet and then raise the volume gradually.  So if you are in
>   a meeting or movie theatre, you can turn it off quickly without
>   disturbing everyone around you.

> o When the gpe alarm does start blaring, it does not move to the
>   forground of the screen.  So when the device goes off, I need to
>   fish the device out of my pocket, unlock the touchscreen, and fish
>   around in the apps menu to find the alarms dialogue so I can dismiss
>   the alarm.  When the native "clock" app has an alarm, it pops up a
>   dialogue to the front which can be dismissed even without unlocking
>   the screen.  There is a nice "snooze" feature on the dialogue box
>   too.

It should be quite easy to fix all these issues porting gpe-calendar to use the
Maemo Alarm Framework. Its API is well documented and quite powerful. The reason
I did not do this when it was published was the fact that the Alarm Framework
part of Maemo is closed source and therefore we can't use it on other devices.

> Is there any hope that gpe-calendar will be updated to use this
> mechanism instead?

Hope yes, I would love to see that but I do not have time to do this myself
currently. But since gpe-calendar is open source and the API is documented
almost anyone could do that.

> PS: Sorry if you get thise twice.  I sent it Saturday, but it doesn't
>     appear in the archives so I'm resending.

Looks like the first mail did not make it to the list, I did not get it twice.

Greetings

Florian

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