179131 - Need the ability to select a color for each calendar so different calendar events can be distinguished

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171657

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, enhancement)

Description

[Jim Strickland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

iCal has a nice function that allows one to color the individual calendars so
that when one looks at the display they can easily distinguish between different
calendar events. ie: Work calendar events and personal calendar events. This
would be a nice added touch to Mozilla's calendar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create multiple calendars
2.create an event with one of the calendars
3.create an event with a different calendar on the same day

Actual Results:  
Both events show up, but there is no way to distinguish which event goes with
which calendar.

Expected Results:  
Each event should be colored differently according to the calendar the event was
created for.

Comment 1

[Mike Potter]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171657 ***

Comment 2

[Jonadab the Unsightly One (Nathan Eady)]

This should be done with classes, so that it is themable.  That
gets us not just color but foreground color, background color,
size, and so on.  That way if I have one calendar that has only
regular repeating events and another that has one-time events,
I can theme things so that the one-time events stand out on
the month view.

The UI should provide an easy way to set at least one aspect
of the appearance of each calendar's class, probably either
foreground or background colour, or maybe the outline colour.
Because not everyone wants to create a whole skin like I do.

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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