Birthday: please display person's Age

Feature Requests
#1

In Verla 4.2.0.21, some new features were brought to Calendar. A coloured dot shows dates with birthdays, and a press on the event shows a separate screen.

Unfortunately, it is a screen WITHOUT USEFUL INFORMATION! :wink:

So please add the only missing information: someoneā€™s age or birth year. Or let me jump to People app, to the right person, so I can check it myself.

For my taste, the event should be shown like:

All day
[Person], [Age]

Cheers, Rob

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#3

Iā€™m proposing an initial implementation to allow this :

Iā€™ve started some discussions there on the concerns that may be raised :

  • what about contact where the month/day is valid but the year has been entered at random ?
  • is it a privacy issue to see the age of people besides their name in the event view for instance ? Or is it even rude ?

Having a link to the people application on the event page description is also a possibility, but not yet covered by the above PR.

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#4

Then random data is displayed. What comes in goes out (there are normally other words used :wink: ).
I do not have a problem with it as I always enter years I do not know with 1900, so it is obvious.

Oh, cmon. Are we really already so far?
It is my calendar, it is my friends/relatives/known dates and it is my device. Why not show?
(the setting for this we already have in system settings).
Rude? :confused: now this I do not get at all (being over half a century :smiley: )

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#5

I was raising possible concerns, not that they are bothering me, actually.

Rude? now this I do not get at all (being over half a century )

I donā€™t know, itā€™s not rude for me neither. I donā€™t have any problem with my age or being able to see the one of my contacts, but I donā€™t know in another culture maybe ?

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#6

Great initiative, Damien. Very promising.

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#7

I actually donā€™t think the age needs to be displayed in the events view, as long as itā€™s displayed in Calendar (when tapping on the birthday ā€˜eventā€™ in the events view) thatā€™s more than enough. Otherwise the events view could end up too cluttered. Itā€™s useful information to know, but itā€™s not useful enough that it should be in plain sight for 24 hours.

I do agree with @peterleinchen that if the user enters a wrong year for the birthday, intentionally or not, thatā€™s their problem.

Now, speaking of birthdays, Iā€™m going offtopic here, but it would also be nice to be able to get a notification for specific contactsā€™ birthdays, for example your favourited contacts.

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#8

Thinking about this, I am not against it. It would normally be enough to check it there. But often you just do not do and mess up an important (e.g. round) birthday event.
I would be fine with either approach.

Definitely in the calendar view (the general one for sure, not only in the detailed).
And preferred also in events view.

#9

Other Services show similar data. Nextcloud for example shows the year of birth instead of age, while iOS calendar also adds the age if I remember correct.
I see no trouble with that, at least from my german point of view.

#10

For me age in Birthday calendar and event view is not a problem.