Pre-KEP input sought: Priority for events? (in line with tasks?)(similar to VEVENT & VTODO?)
Shawn Walker
swalker at bynari.net
Tue Jun 7 17:18:04 CEST 2011
On 6/7/2011 9:41 AM, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
>
> Thanks a lot for the feedback!
>
> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21.47:04 Shawn Walker wrote:
>> Outlook iCalendar
>> Urgent 1 0 to 3
>> Normal 0 4 to 6
>> Non Urgent -1 7 to 9
>
> Shouldn't urgent map to 1-3?
Yes, should be 1-3.
>
> Because according to iCalendar, 0 means "unspecified" priority.
>
> Also I am guessing this is iCalendar to Outlook mapping? What do you do for
> the other direction? 1 -> 2, 0 -> 5 and -1 -> 8?
This is how Microsoft does the priority.
-1 -> 9
0 -> 5
1 -> 1
>
> For me it is clear that priorities need to be possible, just as Doug
> highlighted, some users expect them, and even if many of us do not find them
> overly useful in many scenarios, Outlook & iCalendar have them, so we should
> also do them.
>
> So right now we have as existing approaches:
>
> Outlook: -1, 0, 1
> iCalendar: 0-9
> Kolab: 1-5
>
> The feedback that priorities for tasks in Kolab are not heavily used to
> anyone's knowledge would indicate that we are less restricted in how we want
> to go about this, but like most people, I have a strong desire for consistency
> within the Kolab format.
>
> So I am now honestly considering to propose to model priorities according to
> what iCalendar does (so a missing priority value would equal "0") commonly for
> Tasks & Events and follow Shawn's suggestion of establishing a common mapping
> for all clients to increase consistency.
>
> This should be largely consistent for older data sets and eliminates one
> potential step for conversion and thus loss (between Kolab and iCalendar).
>
> Comments? Thoughts? Suggestions?
>
> Best regards,
> Georg
>
>
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