[dev] user categories

Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:05:22 +0200


Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:
> 
> > I don't think it makes much sense to have user defined categories
> > seperately for each application. They should be shared by all
> > applications.
> 
> My only point the other way is that Palm doesn't do it, and in general I
> can see that you would have categories of ToDo items that you don't have
> of, say, addresses or memos.

I can see this point, though I still think that it also makes sense to have
common categories in a groupware suite that currently is growing out of this
project.
 
> > The second solution that makes more sense to me but is more work to
> > implement, would be to use Horde's category backend instead of making
> > seperate ones for each application.
> 
> This only makes sense to me if we figure out ways to allow categories
> containing categories - the Category:: API might be better named
> Hierarchical:: or some such.

For what purpose? To have categories based on applications (see above)?

Jan.

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