Bug in entering alarm time
When you first set up an alarm, the default "15 minutes before" appears. The problem is that the program assumes you are too stupid to remember to put in some number for the alert time. So, it does not allow you to erase both of the displayed digits, because there must always be at least one digit entered in the window. It therefore turns what should be a dirt-simple one-step edit into an unnecessary and stupid 2-step process:
Let's say you want to put in "30 minutes" instead of 15. You can NOT just select and delete the 15 and type 30, because iCal insists on leaving at least one of the existing digits. So, you have to go through a contorted combination of typing and deleting. For example, you can type 30 in front of the 15 to get 3015 minutes, or type 30 after the 15 to get 1530 minutes, and then you can delete the 15 digits. That's ridiculous.
The essential problem is that Apple still refuses to make it easy to report bugs like this that should have easy fixes. You can get reams of support and troubleshooting stuff, but when there is an obvious problem like this one, or an easy improvement or fix, you can only complain about it here, and there is no way of knowing if anyone from Apple ever reads this stuff. (Maybe there's a suggestion page for iCal -- if so, it's well hidden.)
I love Mac OS X. I hate Windows. We can only hope that never the twain shall meet in terms of customer responsiveness and basic intelligence.
Let's say you want to put in "30 minutes" instead of 15. You can NOT just select and delete the 15 and type 30, because iCal insists on leaving at least one of the existing digits. So, you have to go through a contorted combination of typing and deleting. For example, you can type 30 in front of the 15 to get 3015 minutes, or type 30 after the 15 to get 1530 minutes, and then you can delete the 15 digits. That's ridiculous.
The essential problem is that Apple still refuses to make it easy to report bugs like this that should have easy fixes. You can get reams of support and troubleshooting stuff, but when there is an obvious problem like this one, or an easy improvement or fix, you can only complain about it here, and there is no way of knowing if anyone from Apple ever reads this stuff. (Maybe there's a suggestion page for iCal -- if so, it's well hidden.)
I love Mac OS X. I hate Windows. We can only hope that never the twain shall meet in terms of customer responsiveness and basic intelligence.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4), Have several other Macs, too
