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I am a frequent user of the calendar as a function to remind myself of different things. (several times a day) And thus I want an alert on pretty much all entries that I create. This was default on the N9, which got me this habit. But on the Jolla it is quite finicky to set it to remind me, and very annoying to have to do it every single time. (not to mention easy to forget) I understand that someone might want it this way, but personally I really don't see any use of a calendar entry that has no reminder. So I humbly ask that you make the alarm/alert turned on by default, or at the very least make it configurable what the default settings for a new calendar entry are.

I am a frequent user of the calendar as a function to remind myself of different things. (several times a day) And thus I want an alert on pretty much all entries that I create. This was default on the N9, which got me this habit. But on the Jolla it is quite finicky to set it to remind me, and very annoying to have to do it every single time. (not to mention easy to forget) I understand that someone might want it this way, but personally I really don't see any use of a calendar entry that has no reminder. So I humbly ask that you make the alarm/alert turned on by default, or at the very least make it configurable what the default settings for a new calendar entry are.

I am a frequent user of the calendar as a function to remind myself of different things. (several times a day) And thus I want an alert on pretty much all entries that I create. This was default on the N9, which got me this habit. But on the Jolla it is quite finicky to set it to remind me, and very annoying to have to do it every single time. (not to mention easy to forget) I understand that someone might want it this way, but personally I really don't see any use of a calendar entry that has no reminder. So I humbly ask that you make the alarm/alert turned on by default, or at the very least make it configurable what the default settings for a new calendar entry are.

I am a frequent user of the calendar as a function to remind myself of different things. (several times a day) And thus I want an alert on pretty much all entries that I create. This was default on the N9, which got me this habit. But on the Jolla it is quite finicky to set it to remind me, and very annoying to have to do it every single time. (not to mention easy to forget) I understand that someone might want it this way, but personally I really don't see any use of a calendar entry that has no reminder. So I humbly ask that you make the alarm/alert turned on by default, or at the very least make it configurable what the default settings for a new calendar entry are.

I am a frequent user of the calendar as a function to remind myself of different things. (several times a day) And thus I want an alert on pretty much all entries that I create. This was default on the N9, which got me this habit. But on the Jolla it is quite finicky to set it to remind me, and very annoying to have to do it every single time. (not to mention easy to forget) I understand that someone might want it this way, but personally I really don't see any use of a calendar entry that has no reminder. So I humbly ask that you make the alarm/alert turned on by default, or at the very least make it configurable what the default settings for a new calendar entry are.

I am a frequent user of the calendar as a function to remind myself of different things. (several times a day) And thus I want an alert on pretty much all entries that I create. This was default on the N9, which got me this habit. But on the Jolla it is quite finicky to set it to remind me, and very annoying to have to do it every single time. (not to mention easy to forget) I understand that someone might want it this way, but personally I really don't see any use of a calendar entry that has no reminder. So I humbly ask that you make the alarm/alert turned on by default, or at the very least make it configurable what the default settings for a new calendar entry are.

This appears to have been broken in 3.0.2.8. Anyone else seeing this?

I'll also take the opportunity to point out that this would be much better as a setting and not the non-obvious way that it was implemented.

dconf write /sailfish/calendar/default_reminder 900

I am a frequent user of the calendar as a function to remind myself of different things. (several times a day) And thus I want an alert on pretty much all entries that I create. This was default on the N9, which got me this habit. But on the Jolla it is quite finicky to set it to remind me, and very annoying to have to do it every single time. (not to mention easy to forget) I understand that someone might want it this way, but personally I really don't see any use of a calendar entry that has no reminder. So I humbly ask that you make the alarm/alert turned on by default, or at the very least make it configurable what the default settings for a new calendar entry are.

This appears to have been broken in 3.0.2.8. Anyone else seeing this?

I'll also take the opportunity to point out that this would be much better as a setting and not the non-obvious way that it was implemented.

Update: It would appear something is broken about writing back settings, I wrote the desired value to dconf and the default was there, there for the next event i created, but for the next calendar event one after that it was back to "no reminder". So i have commented out the section towards the end of EventEditPage.qml that deals with writing settings, and run this again:

dconf write /sailfish/calendar/default_reminder 900

Can't figure out how to launch the app from console (for logs) and still have access to the calendar db, so my troubleshooting probably ends here.

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I am a frequent user of the calendar as a function to remind myself of different things. (several times a day) And thus I want an alert on pretty much all entries that I create. This was default on the N9, which got me this habit. But on the Jolla it is quite finicky to set it to remind me, and very annoying to have to do it every single time. (not to mention easy to forget) I understand that someone might want it this way, but personally I really don't see any use of a calendar entry that has no reminder. So I humbly ask that you make the alarm/alert turned on by default, or at the very least make it configurable what the default settings for a new calendar entry are.