[kalarm] [Bug 316338] Warn the user if there is no writable active alarms calendar enabled on startup

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316338

Ganton <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Ganton <[email protected]> ---
Created attachment 194985
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The "New" button is disabled, even if "View > Show Calendars" is enabled.

> If active alarms can't be written to any calendar, many of the basic alarm handling menu options are disabled. If KAlarm 
> starts up in this condition, the user will very likely not realise why commands are disabled and therefore be unable to 
> use KAlarm. To help the user to be able to fix things, a warning message should be displayed in these circumstances.

This problem also happened to me after having installed KAlarm 3.12.3 in
Kubuntu 26.04. As we can see in the screenshot, the "New" button is disabled,
even if "View > Show Calendars" is enabled. No warning message was seen.
Quitting KAlarm and reopening it did not work :-(

David Jarvie wrote on
<https://web.archive.org/web/20240928101732/https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php%3Ff=229&t=110230.html#p306230>
that:
> Normally when you start KAlarm for the first time, its calendars should be created 
> and enabled automatically. For some reason that doesn't seem to have happened
> in your case.
> ...
> do View -> [Show] Calendars

David Jarvie wrote on
<https://web.archive.org/web/20240928101732/https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php%3Ff=229&t=110230.html#p260413>
that:
> If you don't see any calendars listed, you can add an existing calendar file (or create 
> a new calendar file) by clicking the Add button under the Calendars list. The default 
> active alarms calendar file is [~/.local/share/kalarm/calendar.ics] (or similar path, 
> depending on your distro). 

Following those instructions, after I quit KAlarm and reopened KAlarm, I could
create an alarm :-)

A new bug report should be opened (because no warnings were seen or because
"its calendars should be created and enabled automatically")?

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