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Bug 231216 - Color coding in the Calendar
Color coding in the Calendar
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on: 228873 231214
Blocks: 231221
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-25 18:27 UTC by Mårten Woxberg
Modified: 2019-11-26 13:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Mårten Woxberg 2002-09-25 18:27:37 UTC
Wanted features:

Days with only Fulldaytasks should be shown in another color in the
Calender overview. 

Ability to specify Places and then select them from a dropdown list.
Preferably be able to colorcode them too. Look at Apples MacOSX
calender. Eg. TV, Home, School, Garage, Classroom X, Trainstation etc.

The ability to give certain places certain colors, so if I choose
to set a meeting, X-Files, TV and I select that TV has the color blue
the calender should reflect this by changing background color of the meeting.
Comment 1 Mårten Woxberg 2002-09-25 18:28:54 UTC
Splitup of ideas from 28873 with additions
Comment 2 Mårten Woxberg 2003-06-16 07:46:57 UTC
Look at:
http://www.apple.com/ical/organize.html

for ideas.
Comment 3 Thomas Wouters 2004-05-31 19:51:17 UTC
one of the idears i have would be that categories had color's 
 everything that has to do with work is green for example but al my 
 private time is marked yellow 
 
 or i could define my own color on a a pointment, this would make 
 everting much more clearer & faster overview. 
 
 
Comment 4 Mårten Woxberg 2004-06-12 19:21:58 UTC
This would be especially usefull since we now have multiple calendars.
Comment 5 Mårten Woxberg 2005-05-08 12:29:59 UTC
Could we get some comments on these bugs from the UI department of Ximian perhaps?
Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2005-05-09 18:59:11 UTC
Marking with UI keyword so it gets picked up.
Comment 7 Janis Münch 2005-07-07 20:41:10 UTC
I was searching for a evolution forum but didn't found one.
So, here is my vote for color coding.
Evolution needs colored categories, its a standard feature of an calendar and
helps me a lot planning my day.
Comment 8 Derek Buranen 2005-11-08 22:13:33 UTC
Evolution should also support this on Exchange servers already set labels.  It's
probably more of a bug for evolution-exchange, but it'd be nice even without the
exchange support.
Comment 9 Vincent Panel 2007-11-22 13:06:35 UTC
Don't know if that's what Derek is talking about but you're not able to change the color of other people's calendar if you're using the exchange connector. Unfortunately, on my screen, all my colleagues' calendars have a very similar color (pinkish) and I can't make a clear distinction between calendar entries belonging to one of them and the other ones.
Comment 10 André Klapper 2012-02-09 09:35:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Don't know if that's what Derek is talking about but you're not able to change
> the color of other people's calendar if you're using the exchange connector.
> Unfortunately, on my screen, all my colleagues' calendars have a very similar
> color (pinkish) and I can't make a clear distinction between calendar entries
> belonging to one of them and the other ones.

This can be done by changing the color of calendars, I guess.
Comment 11 Milan Crha 2019-11-26 13:28:13 UTC
Evolution 3.30.x allows to set colors for respective events [1]. It's not tight to categories (which lost their color information long back). It's not that easy, but might address your concerns at least partially. There is required that thebackend supports this feature, otherwise the color cannot be changed (for example On This Computer, On The Web and CalDAV calendars do support it). The color picker is shown on the right of the calendar name in the component editor.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/37