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[Sam Bull <fox_nceeob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A proposed lifecycle solution from bug #1502628:

I would like to be able to send a notification to the user after a set
amount of time. Additionally, I would like the user to be able to
respond to the notification with a couple of buttons (e.g. Yes/No or
similar).

This could also be used by the clock app for the timer functionality.

Currently, this is only possible with the push notification service.
But, as a developer, I do not want to implement the complex push
notification service or have to run a server for this simple use case,
and as a user, I do not want to depend on network connectivity for this
functionality.

This could be solved with some kind of interface to anacron that can
schedule a notification to appear at a specified time.

** Also affects: ubuntu-application-lifecycle
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1427566

Title:
  [Clock][UX] Add timers functionality

Status in Indicator Date and Time:
  New
Status in ubuntu-application-lifecycle:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Clock App:
  Incomplete
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm greatly missing timers from the clock app. In Android I use them
  all the time for fixed time periods (laundry/bread/cooking/tea is
  ready, etc.), and it's rather inconvenient to have to create a
  gazillion alarms at a fixed time for these.

  I'm not sure why they got removed, but could we have them back please?
  Thanks for considering!

  Before we will implement this we need to fix:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1480200

  -- Additional feature request,
  I have a UX request when setting the timer. In addition to setting the time remaining until it expires (as you'd expect), I'd like to also switch to the ability to setting the clock time that I want it to expire. This would be very similar to setting an alarm of course, but the alarm setting UI is geared towards persistent alarms, not ephemeral ones.

  Example use case: there's a one-off thing I need to do at 2pm. I could
  set an alarm for 2pm by adding a new alarm, and then going in and
  deleting the alarm after it has rung but this is tedious.
  Alternatively I could calculate the time until 2pm myself and then
  quickly set a timer for that length of time. This way there is no
  alarm to delete after it has expired. I'd like to just go to the timer
  section and add a timer to ring at 2pm by toggling to an "ETA" display
  instead of "time remaining" and setting it from there.

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