Set colors for different calendars

[ghost]

Just started to try out calcure, now that it supports .ics files.
I don't seem to find an option to configure specific colors for different calendars, i.e. green for my personal calendar, yellow for the shared family calendar.

[anufrievroman]

Welcome :)
It is not possible right now, but I'll implement it in the next version.

There was a small issue that the user would need to specify a list of colors, which must correspond to the list of files, and there should be some fool-proof algorithm what to do if something it not right. But I'll figure it out eventually.

Some thoughts about it:
I was thinking also that the issue is that color in calcure typically indicated the priority, like important/unimportant event. The solution I found so far is that there will be a parameter to sequentially assign colors to your calendars, but this will only be for the "normal" priority events (which are all events, as the priority is not implemented for events from ics yet). If priority is different from normal, it will still change the color to the corresponding color (like red for important).
The other solution would be to indicate calendar by some icon, or conversely indicate the priority with an icon.

[ghost]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Here's mine: My usecase is that usually I look at my various personal, work and shared calendars on one mobile device or another. The "default" way to distingquish entries from multiple calendars in one view seems to be color. So having the same color assigned to the same calendar across all devices makes sense to me.

I get what you're saying about priorities though. If priority colors is what your users are used to, I wouldn't change it. But from a UX perspective, I wouldn't mix them up as well. Maybe do one with colors and the other with icons, consequently.

my 2 cents :)

[anufrievroman]

Note to myself

I tried to rewrite by parsing ics calendars into a list of object of class Collection instead of all into one Collection. The problem arises later when the entire program expects an object of class Collection at every View, not a list of them. Rewriting this way will require lots of (rather dirty) fixes everywhere, so I abandoned this approach.

Future plan

A better way might be just to add a property to each item indicating from which calendar it was imported, and coloring it accordingly. That could be a much easier fix, but might still require a rewrite in the future.

[anufrievroman]

Roughly implemented different colors for different ics calendars in 6cd24c0
Please update pip install --upgrade calcure and it should work out of the box. In your config, in Colors section, you can set your colors like:

color_ics_calendars = 2,4,6,3

i.e. list of colors for your ics calendars (not more than 10).

[ghost]

Ooooh that sounds great, thanks! I'll check it out in the next couple of days and get back to you

[ghost]

Seems to work fine :) thanks!