[dev] Kronolith category/color patch, per user

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Ben Chavet <ben at horde.org>:

> Please do, they bug me :)

They're on the way out...

> As for the rest of the debate, I think I agree mostly with Kevin.  I
> like the idea of having a legend of users with their category colors,
> so it is easy to tell who an event belongs to.  On the other hand, I
> don't like the idea of using other people's colors in all cases because
> it could get kinda ugly. This is especially true if one (or more) of
> your coworkers is colorblind, and can't tell that the color scheme is
> aweful.  Or, on the other side, that colorblind person might not be
> able tell the difference between two categories.
>
> Admitedly, I haven't been following the debate very closely, so I
> apologize if this has already been discussed.  What if we were to do
> the user legend, but allow a user to set the colors that he/she sees
> for each category.  For example, Larry, John, and Sue work together,
> and each of them have a shared calendar.  Could we do something so John
> can set his own display colors for John:Meeting, John:Vacation,
> Larry:Meeting, Larry:Vacation, Sue:Meeting, and Sue:Vacation?  And
> simularly for the other two.  Possibly defaulting to the color defined
> by the calendar owner?

My response to you is the same as my response to Kevin: how does this 
scale beyond about 3 people?

-chuck

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