[kronolith] Calendar entries, tag, categories and colours...

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kronolith-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:kronolith-
>> bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Michael J Rubinsky
>> Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
>>
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > I migrated from Horde3 to Horde4 and used the same database.  Some
>> > fiddling needed to be done (like changing the calendar_id) but by
>> and
>> > large it's looking good - except for one small issue - and after a
>> bit
>> > of poking around, I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature.
>> >
>> > Previously, when you tagged an event (say a birthday) with a
>> Category
>> > (say Birthday) and that category had a colour associated with it,
>> the
>> > event would show up in Kronolith as that colour.  Thus, it was easy
>> to
>> > see how many birthdays were in a month in between all the other
>> events
>> > and entries.  This is not showing up in Kronolith
>> > 3.0.9 - all appointments regardless of the tag have a light grey
>> > background and it's therefore not easy to tell what's a holiday,
>> > what's a meeting and what's a birthday, etc.
>> >
>> > The categories are showing up in preferences and are editable, etc.
>> > If I click on a previous birthday entry, it's showing up as having
>> > that category as a tag, so as far as I can tell, it should all be
>> > working.  I even created a new category, with a new colour, added a
>> > new event and tagged it with that colour and still that same
>> result.
>> >  Is this now a feature?  It's the same no matter if I'm in
>> traditional
>> > or dynamic view.
>>
>> This has been discussed ad nauseam on the mailing lists and bug
>> tracker. Please search before posting questions.
>
> I was subscribed to the kronolith mailing list for a long time after  
> v3 was released - I don't recall this coming up.  It would surely  
> have raised a red-flag for me.  But it wouldn't be the first time.   
> I recently reasked a question that had been solved for me before and  
> didn't remember the issue until I googled for it...  Sorry.
>
>> Bottom line is it's a feature.
>
> That kinda sucks.  I'm sure you have your reasons - but it does  
> regress the ease of use somewhat.

http://old.nabble.com/Colorization-by-tags-td31811754.html

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.horde.user/25366

http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9657

-- 
mike

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