30th December 2016, 4:51
To the OP -- i can't understand how/why your attempt to install KAlarm was foiled by dependency errors, as i've now been able to install it successfully, easily [ie, no dependency errors] in 3 instances of Maui. Good luck.
To leszek -- i'm very happy to report, for the benefit of anyone to whom this might be of interest, the solution to being able to properly create, store & use new alarms in KAlarm in clean-installed Maui. I wrote to the KAlarm Dev [David], who kindly helped me. Following i quote his advice:
Pls note this additional info of my own, based on my testing today:
To leszek -- i'm very happy to report, for the benefit of anyone to whom this might be of interest, the solution to being able to properly create, store & use new alarms in KAlarm in clean-installed Maui. I wrote to the KAlarm Dev [David], who kindly helped me. Following i quote his advice:
Quote:There is a fix in KDE Applications 16.08.3 for what you're seeing. The problem is that KAlarm does not create its default calendars when it is first run. However, with the version you have, you can get round this by creating the calendars yourself, as follows:
In the KAlarm menu, choose View -> Show Calendars.
In the Calendars pane, click Add. Then choose the storage method - just choose KAlarm Calendar File if you don't care how alarms are stored.
In the dialog which then appears, enter
* Filename: ~/.local/share/kalarm/calendar.ics
* Name: Active alarms
* Alarm Types: Active Alarms
Click OK.
Similarly set up an archived alarm calendar, but with
* Filename: ~/.local/share/kalarm/expired.ics
* Name: Archived alarms
* Alarm Types: Archived Alarms
If you use alarm templates, similarly set up a templates calendar:
* Filename: ~/.local/share/kalarm/template.ics
* Name: Alarm templates
* Alarm Types: Alarm Templates
KAlarm author
Pls note this additional info of my own, based on my testing today:
Quote:1. After installing KAlarm, if you find any ~/.local/share/kalarm/ pre-existing *.ics files especially if read-only, delete them. They might or might not show in Dolphin, but will still be a problem if visible in the KAlarm GUI calendar pane. Remove them before creating the new ones.
2. The new files created as a result of Dev David's instructions, manifested in KAlarm GUI Tooltips as "disabled", which i incorrectly interpreted as implying these files were defective. In fact, it was simply that they had not yet been selected/activated in the GUI -- doh!
So all i did today was to remove all those calendars, in the GUI, then repeat his instructions, including this time to ensure that those new cals were activated. Thereafter... no more error msg once i created & saved new alarms. Yay!!!
Unfortunately it's not all yet perfect. Every attempt i made to export my existing, good, alarms from one pc, in order to [i'd hoped] import them into KAlarm in my other pc, failed with an error msg... it was unhelpful, saying only that it could not export, but not saying why. Whilst that's not great, my need to export is non-essential, whereas being able to create & use alarms is... hence, on balance, i'm happy.