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Change event colors to match Google Calendar colors #376

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Creasiion opened this issue May 15, 2024 · 9 comments
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Change event colors to match Google Calendar colors #376

Creasiion opened this issue May 15, 2024 · 9 comments

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@Creasiion
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Creasiion commented May 15, 2024

I was just wondering if there was a customizable feature to display our event colors. All of my events are under the same Gcalendar, but I changed their event color to organize them (i.e. red for due dates, blue for work).
Here is an example of what I mean, They're not different calendars, just different event colors, other than mother's day ofc.
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niccokunzmann commented May 17, 2024 via email

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Hi, could you attach the ICS file, too?

It won't let me attach the .ics file, can I email it to you?

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niccokunzmann commented May 17, 2024 via email

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Alright I sent you the email with the .ics

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@Creasiion I am sorry but I did not receive an email. Could you copy the file content into a comment or attach it with .txt at the end?

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@Creasiion I am sorry but I did not receive an email. Could you copy the file content into a comment or attach it with .txt at the end?

Ahh alright! I made a test calendar (privacy reason) only for May 19th-25th. Here is what it looks like by itself on Google Calendar.
Pastel Blue_64aa3687bd57c515f1ab201109a6e50dce8fd9259dcc05c4d0a757d87fb2d3d1@group.calendar.google.com.txt
Screenshot 2024-05-24 at 12 32 58 PM

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When I look at the export, the events do not contain colors. Google does not share this freely.

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20240522T140000Z
DTEND:20240522T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20240524T193024Z
UID:45t795esgjgteuul238laemjhf@google.com
CREATED:20240524T192725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T192725Z
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:TEST COLOR3
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

The course of action here is to petition Google to export this. While you might face structural ignorance, it is still worth doing.

If you like to create a similar result, you could use categories/tags. They can be colored. A hoster with less market power might also treat matters of cooperation/interoperability as more important and within their business model. I would like to express my sadness, too. Seeing it plausable that your freedom of expression might become victim of a power imbalance here. And wish you well in this struggle to liberate your data from a company who might treat it as theirs. Let me know if I can be of any help.

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The only thing I can offer here for now is using tags: https://open-web-calendar.quelltext.eu/templates/

@niccokunzmann niccokunzmann changed the title Change event colors Change event colors to match Google Calendar colors Jun 5, 2024
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I am sorry that I cannot help with this for now as Google does not reveal which colours it uses. I will close this for now but feel free to continue to comment or open it again.

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