372049 - File userChrome.css can,t be found as indicated in the enclosed below

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Hall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 9.10
Build Identifier: rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20070213 Sunbird/0.3.1

How can I assign colours to event categories?

Sunbird 0.2 and Calendar 0.8 

In Sunbird 0.2 and Calendar 0.8, you can define styles for event categories in the userChrome.css file. 

Example:
.event-category-cycling{ background-color: #99FFCC!important; }
.event-category-meeting{ background-color: #00FF99!important; }

These lines set the background colours for 'cycling' and 'meeting' events, respectively. It is CSS, i.e. you can also define other attributes like 'border-color' or include background pictures: 

Example:
.event-category-radtour{ 
  color: black!important;
  border-color: blue !important;
  background-image: url(file:///D|/etc/bbbike/images/srtbike.gif);
  background-position: center center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  border-width: 2px ! important;
}

This lets all 'Radtour' events appear with a blue border and a road bike icon (contained in the file specified above). 

Sunbird 0.3 

Since calendar 0.3, the format must be 

Example:
[item-category~="Radtour"]{ 
  color: black!important;
  border-color: blue !important;
  background-image: url(file:///D|/etc/bbbike/images/srtbike.gif);
  background-position: center center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  border-width: 2px ! important;

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.do an :all file search for file userachrome
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
No file with that name is located

Expected Results:  
I should have been able to make changes to colors of event categories!

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Could you please clarify what the actual bug here is.

Is it that a userchrome.css file in your profile is not recognized or is it, that you can no longer style your event categories?

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Robert, 

userChrome.css file does not exist in a new profile. You can create it manually. See [http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css] for step by step instruction.

The sample given for Sunbird 0.3 works fine for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3pre) Gecko/20070305 Calendar/0.5pre

For me this bugs seems either Invalid or Worksforme depending on what the actual problem is.

Comment 3

[Bas van den Bosch]

Perhaps an empty (or commented out) userchrome.css should be created automagically in a new profile (or it should be created automagically when accessing the profile). But, a little note in the help-file or releasenotes would be enough too... 

Comment 4

[cmtalbert]

This is an advanced user option.  Since it is documented in the Kb advanced users can find it and create it so, we are not going to programmaticaly create this file.
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