Re: contributing to gncal

["Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <bulkmail dds nl>]

On Mon Jan 10, 2000 at 09:01:27PM -0500, Russell Steinthal wrote:

> >Well, there are major changes pending to GnomeCal, specifically
> >iCalendar support.  Depending on how simple and clean the code is, we
> >could integrate them in both code bases.
> 
> Assuming everything continues according to my plan,
> iCalendar/vCalendar should be identical for all purposes other than
> the actual parser, so calendar format should not affect the category
> code at all.  (Since the iCalendar parser handles the conversion to
> iCalObject, as does the existing vCal parser- in both cases, the
> result is a GList of strings representing categories).

Good. 
I've been toying around with some ideas for categories. I had a look
at MS Outlook, but I didn't really like the way they do it (basically,
you just get a list with categories, with checkboxes on the left).

I've decided at least we need pixmaps. Pixmaps are not only nice to
see, but also provide a way to show, say, 5 categories in the todo
list (using GNOME foot-menu size pixmaps), with their textual form as
a tooltip. Also, I've decided to use a box with to lists for
'available' and 'selected' categories, and some arrows to move a
category from one list to the other. 
 

Cheers,
	Dirk-Jan.

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