416154 - Ability to create new categories in the task/event dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 304539

(Calendar :: Dialogs, enhancement)

Description

[David Ascher (:davida)]

When I create a new task, I have to choose among the existing categories for a task.  I'd like to be able to create a new task from that dialog.

One possible area is to add to the menu of tasks "New category...", which would then prompt for a category name (w/ OK/cancel), and then set that as the new category.

Comment 1

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

This also applies to the event dialog. -> Changing summary.

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

This feature was already available in Sunbird 0.5 but was removed in Sunbird 0.7 with the introduction of the new event/task dialog. I think it makes sense to add it back.

Comment 3

[d2_c2]

This is a much needed feature, preferably in lightning and Sunbird. At the least, it should be a separate file that can be easily imported or added to.

When you import a calendar all of the categories should be imported.  This could be an option, as well as an option to accept the colors.  I know the problem of several users, but there should be an option so that people can have standardized calendar installations.

Comment 4

[Bas van den Bosch]

@d2_c2: that's bug 403006 or bug 378754. 

Comment 6

[d2_c2]

Any work on this?  Could we at least have a button on the toolbar to get to the categories from a new task. Or at least a simple explanation about how we can do this ourselves.

Comment 7

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

We could do something similar to the Snooze Dropdown.


|...       |
| Meeting  |
|----------|
|[     ] + |  <-- Textbox and an "add" toolbarbutton (small icon)
------------


This requires some XUL hacks that might limit keyboard accessibility, so I'm not particularly keen on doing it now, but it should be easy to do as an extension: just replace the current dropdown with a new one that has the additional functionality. I'd suggest setting the emptytext on the textbox to something like "New Category".

This won't allow setting colors, but maybe with bug 411254 fixed we can make it get a default color automatically.