Re: [Evolution-hackers] note on colorized calendars

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:35, Calum Benson wrote:
> - Ensure there's an option to only use colours picked from the theme...
> this should be pretty much a requirement anyway, to cater for people who
> need to use the high/low contrast themes. (Although for the high
> contrast themes most of the colours will be the same, so one of the
> other methods would be good additionally too).

I am not sure how we would do this though.  We need a palette of at
least 5 distinct colors or so...

> - Ensure the user can customise the colours that are used.

Yeah, this is easy to do.

> - Allow the user to associate a small icon with each calendar, that
> could be displayed somewhere in each appointment (perhaps beside its
> title, and perhaps only if more than one calendar was being displayed).

Wouldn't it cause too much clutter in the UI though?  We already use the
icons for categories.

(Of course, it's also true that categories and multiple calendars are
going to kind of overlap in the new design...)

> - Have a tooltip for each appointment that mentioned which calendar it
> came from... this is probably the least desirable as you lose the "at a
> glance" nature of the calendar though.

What about my idea of appending the string in the title displayed on the
calendar view?  If it doesn't fit in the space, the tooltip would still
show the whole thing, including the calendar name.

-- Ettore