No effect when unchecking "Compress weekends in month view"

[Jason Gerard DeRose]

Binary package hint: evolution

Even when I unchecked the "Calendar and Tasks > Display > Compress weekends in month view" option, Sat/Sun are still displayed compressed. This is a regression from Lucid.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fdbdfcded0c0bb479a6b52e9ec5af131
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Mon Sep 20 15:44:44 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

== Regression details ==
Discovered in version: evolution | 2.30.3-1ubuntu6
Last known good version: evolution | 2.28.3-0ubuntu10

[hiker (leucker)]

I have the same problem. Moreover, end times of appointments are always shown, regardless, whether the corresponding box is selected or not. Interestingly, the other two options (week numbers and scroll month view) do work.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Alexander Usyskin (sanniu)]

Yes it's fully reproducible.

STR:

1. Open Evolution.
2. Uncheck the "Calendar and Tasks > Display > Compress weekends in month view" option
3. Switch to calendar month view
3. Observe that weekends is still compressed

[hiker (leucker)]

Let me add that also the problem that end times of appointments are always shown is

fully reproducible.

STR:

1. Open Evolution.
2. Uncheck the "Calendar and Tasks > Display > Show appointment end times in week and month view" option
3. Switch to calendar month view (or week view)
3. Observe that appointment end times are still shown

[Alexander Usyskin (sanniu)]

89_express.patch drops cal-compress-weekends binding from e-week-view and moves it to e-cal-config-view. May be it's a culprit.
I'll try to build and test with this change reverted later.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

alex that patch sounds like a backport for express mode.

[Bob (bbrazie)]

I too have this problem after a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10.

Bob.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks for sending this bug to evolution developers.

[Russell Faull (rfaull)]

This bug -- and others relating to calendar/task settings (such as day begin/ends setting and colour settings) -- are not present in the version of evolution at Jacob's ppa (https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/evo230). Many people used Jacob's version in Lucid; being 2.30.3, it will also work in Maverick.

Download the packages to a temporary directory and do sudo dpkg -i *.deb to 'downgrade'. In Synaptic, lock all evolution packages to prevent updates overriding Jacob's ppa versions.

[Russell Faull (rfaull)]

On reflection, my suggestion at #10 would be more appropriate for a forum, but it might also give bug trackers a clue, because clearly each version of 2.30.3 was compiled from different source code.

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

I saw this bug in Ubuntus evolution 2.28.3-0 (Lucid) and 2.30.3-1 (Maverick). But in Fedora 13 and 14 both evolution 2.30.3-1.fc13 and 2.32.0-2.fc14 work as expected! It might be an Ubuntu-only issue.

[Bob (bbrazie)]

So what can the Ubuntu 10.10 users do to correct this problem?

Bob.

[Bob (bbrazie)]

Does this help make it more of an issue?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632241

It really does need fixing for those of us who work on weekends and need to uncompress them.

Bob.

[Nick Jenkins (nickpj)]

So this appears to be an Ubuntu-specific issue, not appearing on other distros. Surely that implies that Ubuntu are modifying something that other people are not? For example, the patch from comment #6 ? In which case there's nothing that upstream can do, and it really has to be resolved at the root cause, i.e. with the Ubuntu-specific modification.

[Bob (bbrazie)]

How do the users of Ubuntu 10.10 get this fixed?

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

This looks similar to #663787 and #649543 that were introduced by the 89_express patch (introducing the express mode for evolution), in those bugs also calendar settings were ignored. Maybe someone should ping Didier Roche (didrocks) who made that patch (and fixed the two mentioned bugs)?

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Please note that #663787 and #649543 both were only in Maverick (evolution 2.30.3-1), whereas this bug exists since Lucid (evolution 2.28.3-0). Anyway, you could ask Didier Roche about this bug. Perhaps he really just did not see it yet.

[Nick Jenkins (nickpj)]

Oliver, I'm sorry, but I don't agree that this bug existed in 2.28-3. I say that because of the following: I used Evo 2.28.3-0 on 10.04 LTS/Lucid, with the expanded weekends option (2 full days rather than 2 half days in the month view), and it seemed to work as expected for me. I only noticed this problem 1 day after upgrading to Evo 2.30.3 on 10.10/Maverick. This also concurs with the original reporter, who wrote says "== Regression details == ; Discovered in version: evolution | 2.30.3-1ubuntu6; Last known good version: evolution | 2.28.3-0ubuntu10". Therefore I think this problem was introduced by either something in Ubuntu's version of Evo 2.30.3, or by some other change in Ubuntu 10.10/Maverick.

[Bob (bbrazie)]

Can we expect this to be fixed for Ubuntu 10.10 users any time soon?

I did not see this in 10.04 with the included evolution only in after a clean install of 10.10 with it's upgraded evolution 2.30.3.

Thanks, Bob.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

So, this "bug" is a side-effect of the express patch in 2.32 that I backported for 2.30.

I do not have the time to have a deeper look right now because of natty and alpha1, but if someone wants to contribute there, just join #ubuntu-desktop on freenode and ping me, I'll give some help and sponsor the work. It's a nice starting point for contribution (looking at the fix I've made for the two others bug can be help) :)

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

(marking the natty task fixed release, only maverick needs work)

[Bob (bbrazie)]

Is there help on the way for 10.10 users?

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

I confirm that this bug is fixed in Natty alpha. Thanks!

[Bob (bbrazie)]

How about Maverick? It still seems to be a problem here.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Maverick is still open for this issue, as seen above where it says triaged and comment #22. The bug at Gnome bugzilla is also still open.

[James (warfie3667)]

Thanks to Jacob Zimmerman, I no longer have this issue.
https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/evo230
Many thanks, Jacob!