I just had an appointment reminder window pop up from Evolution. Great! Unfortunately, see screenshot. :) It doesn't contain any information on the appointment - name, time, location, anything - instead there's some apparent placeholder text. None of the buttons in the reminder window actually makes the reminder go away; the only way to close it is to click the X. The appointment in question is part of a Google calendar that I have set up in Evo's Calendar app (using the Google calendar type, not the generic CALDav type).
Created attachment 455163 [details] screenshot of the reminder window
also, the reminder shows up the panel notification area as the icon which means 'no icon was found' - the blank bit of paper with a red X on it. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Thanks for a bug report. I do not see a reason for showing empty alarm notification window. But it'll require more testing. Is there anything special about the appointment which invoked this window? Maybe if you could attach it here, with all private information replaced with 'x' letter, just for testing. (In reply to comment #2) > also, the reminder shows up the panel notification area as the icon which means > 'no icon was found' - the blank bit of paper with a red X on it. It's using these two in the status bar: "stock_appointment-reminder-excl" "stock_appointment-reminder" Did they got dropped from icon theme "recently"? Probably yes.
I don't know what you mean by 'special', but it was a fairly basic appointment - just a name, 'Lens', and a location, 'Blenz at robson/burrard' , a time, a time zone, and a reminder set for one hour before the time. Again, it's an appointment from a Google calendar. I didn't create it from Evolution, but from my cellphone which is also synced to Google Calendar via the ActiveSync interface. When you say 'attach the appointment', do you mean right-click on it, save as iCalendar, and attach that file? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
note that this bug happened twice - once on my desktop and also on my laptop, which is also running f14 and also connected to the same Google calendar. They both popped up the reminder, and it was broken as described on both systems. So it doesn't seem to be a one-off. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Yup, I meant to attach it here when saved from Evolution, but your description of it is also fine. I tried to reproduce this with this: a) create an event in Google's web interface with an alarm set b) run $PREFIX/libexec/evolution/2.32/evolution-alarm-notify on console c) the alarm from a) should be shown. And it is for me, somehow. To repeat without setting new alarm is enough to run gconf-editor and open key /apps/evolution/calendar/sources where one key is for Google calendars. Open this key and edit "last-notified" property of the 'source'. It is at the end of the XML blob saved in GConf for me. I move back in time with it so the alarm is triggered again on evolution-alarm-notify run. My environment is not the same as that yours, so maybe it plays its role too. Could you try to run evolution-alarm-notify under valgrind (if you are able to reproduce this consistently after changing the "last-notified" property for the calendar source), maybe it'll help to find the issue. You can run it like this: $ G_SLICE=always-malloc valgrind --num-callers=50 /usr/libexec/evolution/2.32/evolution-alarm-notify &>evo.log Only make sure it is not running already. Thanks in advance.
I read the code and tried couple tests but no luck, except of one. When I set pretty frequent refresh on the calendar, run alarm notification process which will show the icon at the status bar, keep it as is and remove the event from the google calendar in the web interface. When the refresh time comes the alarm notification process recognizes event removal and removes it from the alarm dialog too, but in that case clicking the status bar icon does nothing. I do not think this is your case, though.
I'm using bug #647996 for the missing icons, and keep this bug report for the "empty dialog" issue.
*** Bug 649024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just got an idea, is it possible that the event which was missing was a recurring event set to recur forever?
no, it was a one-off. i rarely use recurring events. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
I can reproduce this too, finally, with the 2.32.0 rpm version. It works fine with git master and gtk-2-24 branch, though, but I'm investigating further.
Hrm, as soon as I try to debug this with some prints I cannot reproduce it. I'll keep an eye on this.
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