Shouldn't stop listing events until they are over

[Sebastien Bacher]

Using current utopic, events are dropped from the list when they start, wouldn't it make sense to list as well the ongoing ones (if you are looking to the menu 3 minutes after a meeting started you might still be interested in joining it for example)

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I agree with Matthew's suggestion:

"If an event hasn't started yet, its start time should be shown, for example "7:00 PM"; if it has started but not finished, its end time should be shown, for example "ends 9:20 PM"."

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate?action=diff&rev2=100&rev1=99

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Dropping off on the end time might not always be the Right Thing to do. For example if you had multiple full-day events (holiday, + someone's birthday, etc.) they could DOS the five slots pretty quickly.

One approach would be to keep the count separate from the full day events..

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

...actually, I can't think of a use case where you wouldn't want to know the events that are currently in progress. Maybe in-progress events shouldn't be constrained by the 5 limit?

[Tin Tvrtkovic (tinchester)]

Could this be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1302004?

For example I use a lot of all-day events, and it's unintuitive my events aren't shown in the 5 event list in the indicator *on the day they are active*. Instead the indicator skips the day's events and shows the next 5.

If the indicator doesn't show events that have started, and all-day events are considered to have started at 00:00, that'd explain it. I'd still argue it's not useful behavior.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Tin, yes, this is covered by the same design change I suggested for bug 1302004. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate?action=diff&rev2=100&rev1=99> If an event hasn't started yet, its start time should be shown, for example "7:00 PM"; if it has started but not finished, its end time should be shown, for example "ends 9:20 PM".

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

(Please don't mark a bug as fixed unless it actually is.)