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[Charles Kerr <charles.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)

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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.

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