How do I add an alarm or run a program to alarm on evolution mail?

I just found the way to add a sound file that will provide the length and loudness required. By choosing the alarm to play a sound I am able to also choose a custom sound in the options portion of the add alarm window within the evolution calendar HOWEVER when I choose the .wav file it does not work...just to make sure it wasnt my file I chose another file usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/sonar.ogg and that didnt work either.

My system settings under system/preferences/sound is set to "bark" and this alert setting is what seem to supercede anything else for the calendar alert in Evolution

Can this be resolved?

Sir, in evolution the alarm feature can't be changed. Sorry about that,
but here's something you can do. If you have a calendar in evolution,
when you click on your date/time applet, it will list out the tasks or
appointments that you have for that day.

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 19:32 +0000, Newbie Dragon wrote:
> New question #92614 on Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/92614
>
> My goal is to have an alarm load enough and long enough to catch my attention when the calendar provides the POP UP and SOUNDs alerting me of the meeting scheduled.
>
> The alarm in evolution mail for calendar is the ubuntu default or the customer such as the bark, etc. These are not long enough sounds to get my attention. I would like to either add sounds to the available sounds or please tell how to run a program which is an option within the ADD ALARM function of evolution calendar
>

Thank you Vikram. Thats to bad..hope Ubuntu R&D decides to update this as I would like this as a funciton to put in the kitchen to remind the fmaily of up and coming events like, put out the trash, time to do homework, time to practice guitar, time to excercise, etc,

Do you think the next versions will allow for much louder alerts of upcoming events I will close this as it seems there is not a solution for the wanted functionality

Don't know but this is added to my TODO list, so sometime soonish :D

Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

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There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but
only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
-- Linus Torvalds

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Newbie Dragon
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> Question #92614 on evolution in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/92614
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>    Status: Answered => Solved
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> Newbie Dragon confirmed that the question is solved:
> Thank you Vikram.  Thats to bad..hope Ubuntu R&D decides to update this
> as I would like this as a funciton to put in the kitchen to remind the
> fmaily of up and coming events like, put out the  trash, time to do
> homework, time to practice guitar, time to excercise, etc,
>
> Do you think the next versions will allow for much louder alerts of
> upcoming events  I will close this as it seems there is not a solution
> for the wanted functionality
>
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