Re: [Evolution-hackers] [PATCH] evolution-ews: implement Exchange categories as evolution labels (read only)

[James Bottomley <James Bottomley HansenPartnership com>]

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 12:19 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:41 +0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 
> > +
> > +       /* this is a mapping from Exchange/Outlook categories to
> > +        * evolution labels based on the standard colours */
> > +       const gchar *labels[] = {
> > +               "Red Category", "$Labelimportant",
> > +               "Orange Category", "$Labelwork",
> > +               "Green Category", "$Labelpersonal",
> > +               "Blue Category", "$Labeltodo",
> > +               "Purple Category", "$Labellater",
> > +               NULL, NULL
> > +       }; 
> 
> That's the only reason I might *not* want to apply your patch
> immediately, right?
> 
> Is there a "correct" way to handle the mapping? Does Exchange really
> just store them by colour?

I kid you not.

You can see this just by going to your own outlook web server (when you
highlight a message, you'll see an empty tall oblong, click and it will
bring up the categories).

Exchange allows arbitrary labels (like we do), but the default ones are
Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Red and Yellow.  Evolution has label
mappings for everything apart from Yellow.  I figured we should map
default to default.

James