145519 - [RFE] add support for holidays

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Gabriel]

a feature im even missing in outlook is automated marking of holidays.
real simple calendars include holidays outlook doesnt for some reason.
so it would be a lovely feature if calendar would mark the holidays in the
current year via a country setting.

Comment 1

[mental]

Confirming enhancement.  This would make a good test of the import system (see
requirements doc).  For the moment, making this block bug 122649.

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

OK, this is now supported in CVS, but there's no front end for it.
You can specify the different colors for all the categories by adding a line
like this to your calendar.css file:

*[Holidays="true"]
{   
   /* put whatever you want in here */   
   font-weight    : bold;
   border         : 1px solid red !important;
}

You can replace Holidays with whatever category name you want.

I'm going to send this bug to [e-mail], someone else can do the
preferences work, which shouldn't be too hard.

Comment 3

[Benoit]

Could we have the same sort of UI for the events categories than for the
"labels" in Mozilla Mail then? 

How would it work when multiple categories for a single event will be allowed?
Maybe holiday should be a special kind of event?

Comment 4

[Brant Gurganus]

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Comment 5

[Robert La Ferla]

This is needed functionality.  There should be a way to easily see that a day is
a holiday and there needs to be a way to view by not only country but by
location.  For example, Boston has an "Evacuation Day" holiday that the rest of
Massachusetts and the US do not have.

Comment 6

[Laurent Duperval]

I've imported Holiday calendars from the project page. Is this still considered
a bug?

Comment 7

[Matthias Buecher]

I would also like to hide "[official] holidays" in the event list, as they tend
to fill it up.
Setting a category to "Do not show in event list" and giving it a special color
would be much better.

Holidays via a Country/State setting would also be useful for Germany, but I
don't know if the iCalendar standard supports this fine definition.

Comment 8

[Joey Minta]

As said in comment #6, holiday files for a variety of countries are now
available on the calendar website.  Marking fixed.

Comment 9

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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