Improving calendar

I mostly work on things that are usefull for me, but sometimes also for feature requests that I find interesting to look at, or because they are in my knowledge area and moderately easy to achieve. Receiving money for the later raise some questions : I’m doing it on my free time, for fun. So realisation time is often very moving, from weeks when going well or if I can devote enough time for it, to months or years sometimes. In other words, I cannot guarantee any delivrable, which is problematic if paid for.

@Cryx, thanks for raising some improvements you would like to see in the calendar application. I encourage you to resurect old topics for them or create new if not any already exist. I don’t want to disgress off-topic, so in a few words:

  • deleting the local calendar : there should be a mechanism to add local calendars before deleting any !
  • move events from one calendar to another : if it implies to come from a shared calendar (a synced calendar), there are internal limitations in mKCal that prevent it. These limitations are at the core of mKCal database and API. I’ve been working on raising these limitations for years now. Bit by bit it’s coming closer to being fully resolved, but we’re not here yet.
  • more reminder options : I don’t want much to get a too long list of possibilities and giving a full user-defined offset would add much UI for very few cases. That’s my personal opinion. We can already choose some preset offsets, or arbitrary time.
  • multiple reminders : indeed that’s a good target. I’ve started looking at it a long time ago but put it aside.
  • add this and future changes. I’ve something ready for this, but I’ve never completed the review and approval process with Jolla to get it officially. Maybe I should look at it again…
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