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From the experience of my daily work with KOrganizer I'd like tell some wishes
for better integration of recurring events and To-Dos. There seem not to be so
much differences between them, except the attributes "Show as time as
[Busy|Free]" (Event), "... percent completed" (To-do) and "Priority" (To-do).

That's why I have the following suggestions:

1. GUI

• Remove the "Recurrence" button from the event editor and add a Recurrence tab
  as in the To-Do editor to make them look similar.
• Place the "Time associated" checkbox in the Event editor to the same place as
  in the To-do editor (below Start/End) to make them look similar.

2. Recurring events/to-dos

• At the moment, on recurring to-dos, reminders work only once. If there is
  really a use-case for reminding only once on daily or weekly to-dos, add an
  option to the to-do editor for each event whether to remind only once or each
  time before the to-do occurs. The same I would do for events. Nevertheless, I
  would make a repeating reminder the default for to-dos and events.
• At the moment, on recurring to-dos, the "..-% completed" is not reset or
  somehow handled for each recurrence, but globally instead. If there is for
  example a task which begins each week newly from "0% completed" you must reset
  this manually. On the other hand, if I set a recurring to-do to 100% completed
  globally to haven't it marked as overdue all the time there is a risk to remove
  it by mistake on "Purge completed". A better behavior would be to automatically
  reset it to 0% each time the Start time is reached for each occurence. There
  might be, of course, use-cases to save the completed state of a task globally,
  I would add an option here whether to reset the "completed" state each time the
  to-do recurs.

See also my report in Bug tracker issue 182433

Seems sensible to me. One use that I haven't had met is for recurring to-dos with Due Dates of (e.g.) "3 days since last completed".
This would be useful for things that you *try* to do at regular intervals, but may miss sometimes. Blogging, for instance.

yeah, nice improvements!

Yes, I agree...

I don't know if I am missing something, but it would be nice if we had option like "Remind me '1 day' or '1 week' before event (birthdays for example).