Solved How do I add more local categories in the Calendar core app?

[Nocturn-Adrift]

I am a bit confused here. Essentially, I am talking about the core calendar app UT offers by default.
When I click the middle "Calendars" button on the upper right corner of the screen in the user interface, I am offered only three options:

• Add online Calendar

• Birthdays and Anniversaries

• Personal

Where exactly do I add other categories? (No, I don't want to make an online calendar account just to do this.)

[kugiigi]

I think it's one of the missing features in the calendar app. You can't manage your different calendars. You can't even remove added online calendars, you can only disable them

[Nocturn-Adrift]

@kugiigi That is unfortunate. I hope someone reconciles this problem in the near future.

[kugiigi]

@nocturn-adrift Usually contributors start with something they badly want or need

https://gitlab.com/ubports/apps/calendar-app

[Nocturn-Adrift]

@kugiigi I guess this seems like a doable project for me to do. I'm not much of a coder, but I would assume adding a couple categories could be doable for me. I am just baffled that there isn't a "Work" or vocational category.

To start with, however, I would want to see what others would want. I don't think I can contribute a touchbar, that is too high skill for me. My thinking is that at the minimum, these categories would work:

• Holiday/Birthday/Anniversary (already have practically).
• Personal (already have)
• Work/Job
• School/Education

Eventually a "custom" option with a color picker for the catagory would be ideal. There's my roadmap.

[cliffcoggin]

@nocturn-adrift For myself I don't need more categories. In fact I would be happy with no separate categories at all.

[c4pp4]

@nocturn-adrift
You can do it by yourself by creating appropriate file(s) in /home/phablet/.config/evolution/sources directory. You can use predefined birthdays.source file as an example, e.g.:

new filename:
notes.source

content:

[Data Source]
DisplayName=Notes
DisplayName[cs]=Poznámky
Enabled=true
Parent=local-stub

[Calendar]
BackendName=local
Color=#77216f
Selected=true

[Ubuntu]
AccountId=0
ApplicationId=
AutoRemove=true
Writable=true
Metadata=

Change DisplayName and Color variables to whatever is desired. (e.g. get color values from here https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_hexadecimal.asp).

[Nocturn-Adrift]

@c4pp4 Just wanted to personally thank you for this. I have finally got around to doing this manually and I can already tell a big difference in my pleasure using evolution-calandar(?).

I have decided to eventually get around to making a script to automatically apply the defaults I suggested in the future.