[dev] event/note/task/etc. categories/labels

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

We've known for a while that the current system of having labels for
events/tasks/etc. tied to the preferences of the owner of the shared resource
is an untenable implementation.

I'd been thinking to replace it with something that implemented labels on a
per-calendar/tasklist/etc. basis, but that still leaves us short in a few areas
- mostly thinking of syncing.

What I'm leaning towards now is changing all of our apps that use this code to
simply accept text labels for events (probably giving up on the dropdown list,
though we can just store a list of labels on a per-user basis, too), instead of
storing a number in the backend.

Then, we can maintain colors on a per-user basis, and just keep those in prefs,
so that each user has their own color scheme completely independant of other
users, even for viewing the same calendar.

How's that sound to people?

-chuck

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