How to get reminders according to their settings in Kontact?

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Hi Community!

Strange behaviour of Calendar (Kontact) .

When I set an audio reminder to an event - in this case the alert.wav audio file, I only get a pop-up window - no audio reminder.

What should I make to get reminders as they have been set?

Appreciated for every hint!

System
OS: openSUSE Leap 15.6
KDE: Plasma 5.27.11
Frameworks: 5.115.0
Qt: 5.15.12
Graphic platform: X11
Kontact: 5.24.5

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I’m wondering, I haven’t got any suggestion! Are more information needed?

Or is Kontact no more maintained?

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It usually just means that either nobody else has been experiencing this or that nobody has yet had time to try and reproduce it.

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Hi.

Thanks for your reply!

Initially, I cannot understand your assertion, in particular that “nobody has been experiencing this”. Why not? No KDE user uses the Calendar app of Kontact (one of the first KDE software)? It would be very strange. Or maybe no KDE user sets reminders on their appointments / events? I think, that is unusual, even if possible.

So I thought, I test it with the newest Kontact release.
Thus, I installed the current KDE neon OS on an old Notebook, but I cannot test it: every time I tied to put in an event the app crashed. The OS was also very unresponsive. This happened not only on my old Notebook, but also on the newer one and on the Desktop PC (64 GB RAM) with the live OS version.
I am not able to determine, if this is due to the application itself or to a system lack, but in any case I was then able to understand the second part of your assertion: “nobody has yet had time to try and reproduce it.”
KDE OS stability has obviously first priority!!

Now I ask me if I have to:

  • repeat this thread about every month until I get an answer,
  • report a bug,
  • simply forget this, because there are few possibilities to solve it in the next future.
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you are using a very old version of Kontact.

even if you did create a bug report I’d close is immediately as “too old and unmaintained”.

step 1: upgrade to a much newer version

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Using a custom audio file is one of the options.
Other users might not use that, etc.

I have been using Kontact (as a suite and its individual applications) for many years, yet never used this option.

Not every user is present on the forum, let alone all the time.

it is not impossible that the intersection of users who are here and have the same setting as you is empty.