[dev] Kronolith category/color patch, per user

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Kevin Myer <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> My experience is that showing the user's own colors is what they expect, for
> _their_ events.  For other users, they would expect to see _something_ to
> indicate that its not their event.  And since each category has a color,
> category == color, and I'd expect to look at a color and determine what the
> category is, from a calendar shared between multiple users.

What we seem to disagree on is whether a category is unique to a user. 
I say it isn't - my Vacation events are in the same category as your 
Vacation events, they're both of the "category" Vacation. That's what 
"in the same category" means to me. You seem to be saying that they 
aren't; they're in two different categories that could as well be 
called "Chuck's Vacation" and "Kevin's Vacation".

My wife and I have a shared calendar setup where we have a shared 
calendar and each of us has a personal calendar. We both create events 
on the shared calendar, so we both "own" them. When I'm looking at the 
calendar, I want any events that are marked "Sweetie Time" (to use a 
slightly personal example) to look the same, no matter which one of us 
created them. And I don't want to have to synchronize our color 
preferences to do so - we have different tastes.

So I don't see budging on this part - changing it really changes the 
meaning of "Category" to me, and I don't want to do that.

However, I agree that it'd be good to have some way of showing events 
you own vs. others events, and to show the owner of an event. I've 
added code to HEAD that provides different CSS classes ".mine" and 
".notmine" to events so you can style them differently; the default is 
a thicker border on events that are ".mine". I'm sure the actual visual 
could use some tweaking, but that's just a matter of playing with the 
CSS. I've also added the owner of the event to the event's tooltip.

Perhaps that will address some of what you're getting at. And some of 
what you're describing is what the side-by-side view is for. Yes, it 
takes a lot of screen real estate, but cluttering the basic view with 
all of this information does too.

> (which is one of the reasons in my patch that the legend only displays the
> categories for events that are display - if each user has 100 categories, but
> only one event that shows up on your calendar, the legend will only
> display one category/color for that event).

This is already the case...

-chuck

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