[horde] Kronolith (and turba) contacts & events colors for categories

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Thu Apr 2 18:54:54 UTC 2015


Quoting Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Please do not top-post.
>>
>> Quoting Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>  I suppose if the feature was removed its because tags are easier/more
>>> efficient to use than categories?  Otherwise why was that removed??
>>>
>>
>> As I said, it was removed because tags replaced categories. Tags are much
>> more useful than a single category. Since multiple tags can be assigned to
>> a single event and/or calendar it makes coloring the event based on a
>> single tag impossible - hence the request for colored dots on the event
>> bubbles.
>>
>> There was MUCH discussion about this on the various mailing lists and bug
>> tracker if you want more information.
>>
>>
>>  So the tag colors in preferences are useless now?  Why keep them?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Quoting Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been poking around my horde framework and for the life of me cannot
>>>>> find how to activate event colors depending on their categories..  Same
>>>>> applies in Turba for the contacts.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You can't. That feature was removed years ago when tags replaced
>>>> categories.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  If I recall, when I started using Horde about 5 years ago, this was
>>>>
>>>>> possible.  All I can find now are the categories in the preferences but
>>>>> nothing more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I missing something or has that feature really been removed from
>>>>> Horde???  I hope not because this was very effective and easy to spot
>>>>> events of a certain category in a busy calendar..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> There is an open enhancement request for Kronolith dealing with adding
>>>> colored dots to the event bubbles for each tag.
>>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Sorry for top posting, it is just a behavior of most (if not all) modern
> email clients, and I always forget to supercede that.
>
> I will indeed look for another option to categories but Im not sure how..
> After all combining 3 different calendars in the same account (for the same
> physical person) and having a calendar per "job" with several categories in
> each calendar wont be easy without color codification.

You can always help sponsor the feature: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9657

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