Alarm sounds vs Calendar sounds

[Charles Kerr]

As discussed with rsalveti and pmcgowan in #phablet on 14 Jan

There are two issues in the datetime notification code that need to be changed.

1. Right now we only set role=alarm if the sound is looping; ie if it's an alarm clock event rather than calendar event.
Set calendar event role to alert

2. Calendar events shouldn't play in silent mode. We can test for silent mode on the bus, http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/telephony-service/trunk/view/head:/libtelephonyservice/greetercontacts.cpp has an example: getUserValue("com.ubuntu.touch.AccountsService.Sound", "SilentMode");

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Queue this up as new sync improvements will make calendar use more widespread

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

From bug 1391501 it seems we really should be using the role alert, as calendar events are not really alarms. That would also mean that the alert volume (default when nothing is playing) will also affect the calendar events, which is also good.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 13.10.0+15.04.20150122~rtm-0ubuntu1

---------------
indicator-datetime (13.10.0+15.04.20150122~rtm-0ubuntu1) 14.09; urgency=low

  [ Charles Kerr ]
  * Don't play calendar alarm sounds if Silent Mode is enabled. Use the
    alarm sound role for both clock and calendar alarms. (LP: #1410874)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * New rebuild forced
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:25:52 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 13.10.0+15.04.20150128.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
indicator-datetime (13.10.0+15.04.20150128.1-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=low

  [ Charles Kerr ]
  * Don't play calendar alarm sounds if Silent Mode is enabled. Use the
    alarm sound role for both clock and calendar alarms. (LP: #1410874)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:16:10 +0000