[dev] Kronolith Non-Personal Calendar Names

[Mike Peachey]

Afternoon all,

I am interested in trying to push kronolith development into changing 
the way that non-personal calendars are named. Currently, each personal 
calendar is given the name of the owning user. Each additional calendar 
is given a random hash string as a name.

While this deals with the problem of users wanting to use the same names 
for their extra calendars, it causes more problems than it solves. Two 
examples:

1. When providing kronolith as a shared calendar solution for a 
business, I am having to expect users to copy and paste long hash 
strings into applications that they want to use to remotely subscribe to 
calendars. This is just about acceptable for the technically proficient 
users, but it *looks* sufficiently complicated that I end up having to 
do it manually for the execs and the marketing/sales/finance staff.

2. I have attempted to modify kronolith's web interface so that instead 
of colouring events based on their category it would colour events based 
upon the calendar the event belongs to. This is necessary for PAs for 
example who are tracking and maintaining events for multiple execs as 
they need to easily differentiate between multiple identical tasks based 
on their owner. I have found it almost completely impossible to do this 
because you effectively have to enter the calendar name hash strings as 
categories and then the colour key at the base of the calendar links 
colours to hash strings, NOT to calendar owners, which to the execs and 
non-technical staff looks like an error.

I think it's entirely reasonable to look into another way of naming 
extra calendars that would be more user-friendly and would allow 
modifications to work with calendars based on usable names.

As an example.. ALL calendars could be named like this: 
${username}.${calendarname}

Then, all users' personal calendars would be called: tom.default, 
jane.default, pointy-haired-boss.default

And additional calendars could be named whatever they wanted like this: 
tom.holidays, jane.holidays, jane.management, 
pointy-haired-boss.management, pointy-haired-boss.financial

This would mean that, when subscribing to calendars remotely, the 
pointy-haired-boss would need this: 
http://horde.domain.tld/rpc.php/kronolith/pointy-haired-boss.financial.ics

instead of this: 
http://horde.domain.tld/rpc.php/kronolith/eb4e3b3261f660cc9fcccd7884a512e9.ics

And I, or anybody else, could easily modify the category colouring 
options (possibly as an option in the core of kronolith) so that, when 
colouring by calendar, you simply enter a category with the right 
calendar name rather than an unintelligible hash string and they key 
displayed at the base of the calendar would also be understandable.

Can I get some feedback on this please, people?
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Kind Regards,

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Mike Peachey, IT
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