I strongly agree that we need to denote missed alarms -- that information should be prominent.
What's not clear to me is The Right Way to do this. We can't turn the individual menuitems' icons red because they're removed from the menu when the time has passed, since they're no longer upcoming events. We also can't change the panel icon because there's no way to 'clear' the warning to a normal state. One thing we could do is to keep old alarms in the menu if (and only if) they were missed. These menuitems' icons will change to red and can be cleared by clicking on them. The indicator's main icon could be red if there are any missed alarm menuitems in the indicator. This isn't a perfect idea. While it does give the user needed information about missed alarms, (1) it's a little clumsy and (2) what happens if we have a handful of missed alarms? They will crowd out the upcoming alarms on the menu. Another option would be to leave a "missed alarm" message in the Notification center... that raises interesting dependencies between the indicators :) This ticket still needs Design feedback. ** Changed in: indicator-datetime Assignee: Charles Kerr (charlesk) => James Mulholland (jamesjosephmulholland) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-themes in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1321309 Title: [Indicators] Missed calendar or alarm events need to be properly indicated Status in The Date and Time Indicator: Confirmed Status in Clock application for Ubuntu devices: Triaged Status in Themes for Ubuntu: New Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: Fix Committed Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “ubuntu-themes” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Imagine a scenario where you have a calendar event or a clock alarm to go of at 10:00. If you get a call at the same time, then obviously the call gets the highest priority and the alarm or calendar audible notification is suppressed by the system. So a phone user can actually miss the event. This can be resolved by turning the alarm icon shown in the indicator to blue similar to messages to indicate that an alarm or event was missed by the user. ------------------------------------------- Desired solution: The alarm icon turns its state to active like notification center/messages indicator as suggested in the bug description. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-datetime/+bug/1321309/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp