[Korganizer-devel] [Bug 172464] Korganizer: cannot move recurring items' day, only hour.

[Andreas Mahel]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172464


Andreas Mahel <andreas.mahel at gmx.net> changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Andreas Mahel <andreas mahel gmx net>  2010-05-08 21:18:53 ---
I can confirm this issue on KDE 4.4.3 / OpenSuSE 11.2.
What I see:

- Creating an event for Tuesday 2010-05-11, recurring weekly (4 times)
- Move the event to Wednesday 2010-05-12
-> The event disappears from the current week, and the first occurrence will be
next week Tuesday (2010-05-18)

It's the same behaviour both moving by mouse or changing the event's start date
from the event property dialog.

My interpretation:
Weekly recurrence of an event is based on selecting the day of the week on
which the event should occur.
Upon creation of the event, this information is pre-defaulted to the day of the
event start date.
Changing the event start date later on only changes the time range for the
whole event (like: when is the first event allowed to occur), but not the day
of the week when it will occur.

I could imagine that we have similar effects on monthly or yearly recurring
events, although the problem might not hit so often in those cases.
However, looking at the possible choices in those cases (like "every 11th day
of the month" vs "every second Tuesday of the month"), I guess there is no easy
solution to apply "event dragged by mouse" changes easily to those repetition
rules.

I even would say, the behavior is consistent with the design -- albeit not very
intuitive for the user.

What might help:
1. An additional choice (which should be the default IMHO) for weekly
recurrence; something like "on the same day of week like the start date of the
series" (sorry, I couldn't find a more catchy phrase).

2. An information to the user in cases where the recurrence rules could not be
updated automatically (not that trivial to find out when this would be,
probably).

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