292264 - Color coding events and tasks according to priority in calendar view and taks list

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Christopher Everett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050420 Debian/1.7.7-2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050420 Debian/1.7.7-2

We were looking at replacing Outlook with Mozilla Suite+Calendar, 
and what killed the deal was the inability to color code tasks 
according to priority.  I went and looked at it myself and couldn't
figure out how.

I got the usual smarmy "I'm sorry for Christopher that Microsoft 
is so smart" commments from Sales.  Gah!  If Microsoft was as good
as all that, as they think, Linux wouldn't even have been created.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

Christopher:
    Unfortunately, I don't think this request is really feasible as it is
phrased.  Currently, events are already color-coded by calendar (background) and
by category (border). Furthermore, the text color of a task is changed based on
due date, so that's not an option either. There doesn't seem to be much of
another way to color them that wouldn't override/conflict with them. As far as
task priority goes, there are high/low visual indicators (! and down arrow,
respectively) for priority, which might be as good as you're going to get.

However, Sunbird/Calendar can always benefit from users brainstorms. If you can
suggest a good way to implement this, then I'd be happy to confirm this request.

Comment 2

[Christopher Everett]

Perhaps the rephrase can go like this:

We have a list of event properties that could be color coded on the 
calendar:

  * due date
  * category
  * calendar
  * priority
  * <name some others>

We have a number of items we can color:

  * font
  * background
  * border

What would be nice would be a way to arbitrarily assign properties to items 
for coloring; for instance:

  * priority displayed by font color
  * category displayed by background
  * calendar displayed by border

Also, there should be a button or link to click on that would pop up a 
legend, so the user could refresh their memory as to what means what.  
The legend would, of course, correspond to the current configuration.
 
I could argue that font and border styles might be useful, bet lets 
leave that alone for now.

Comment 3

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 4

[Damian Szczepanik]

if color task/event is so difficult can we use exclamation mark for high priority and italic font for low?

I agree that priority is a field which is not used, you can set it but it does not change anything

Comment 5

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Moving from blocking-calendar0.7? to wanted-calendar0.8?.

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Setting wanted0.8- as the main Calendar developers will not devote any time to
this in the 0.8 timeframe. Patches are, of course, always welcome.