Threads passim have bemoaned the shortcomings of the Calendar app in various aspects. The ones which annoy me most are the inability to set times with more precision than 5 minutes and not being able to set event repetition at other than daily, weekly or monthly or annually. However, the underlying calendar engine is perfectly capable of both; I have imported iCalendar files with events starting at an odd number of minutes (thanks traintimes.org.uk) or which have a 4-weekly repetition (grudging thanks Outlook). However, in the latter case when opening the event it claims to be a weekly event, though it displays properly, and editing it changes the repetition to weekly. This leads me to think a number of things:

1. It is the event editing interface which is inadequate rather than the calendar engine. Therefore, it may well be that the forthcoming firmware upgrade sorts this out.

2. If not, what we need is an improved event editing interface. Now the really hackish way around it would be to save a few .ics template files, edit them with leafpad or PyGTKEditor and open them (from File Manager?) to get the events into the calendar, but I also wonder whether the Calendar app is open enough to allow the community to replace the event editing dialogue?

3. Typing this it occurs to me that the editing .ics and importing might also be a way of setting different alarm times to those in the editing interface.