On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 20:43 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: > Right now we provide searching for categories in both the calendar and > the addressbook. The addressbook just list all the categories from the > category list, while the calendar (and tasks) makes backends track the > categories and only makes those categories in use available via the > search bar. > > We need to make this consistent between the various components, the > question is how. There are several options: > > 1. Make the address book backends track categories like calendar. > > This is a problem for LDAP because it needs to load every single entry > in order to know all the categories. Networked calendar backends will > have this problem moving forward as well. > > 2. Make the calendar/tasks searching just pull from the category list. > > This needs a way to organize all the categories, we just can't list 50 > categories. > right, if you've got many calendars, specially 3rd party ones that use their own categories names, you'll end up missing some categories if we just use a hard-coded list. So I guess it is still worthy to query the backend for the list of categories in use, to avoid missing categories, or...
> 3. Make category searching use a user entered string to search with > (just like name or summary). > do this one. cheers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
