Re: [Evolution-hackers] note on colorized calendars

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:08, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> 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.

I think that displaying optionally the calendar name at the end of the
event title is the best approach. For accessibility there are not many
colors you can use, like the high contrast example shows.

Icons do clutter, and we already have the category icons there. So I
think the best way is to just have the calendar name there as text.

Tuomas

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