Calendar Colors don't persist on Save (calDAV)
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I have no local calendar accounts set up, i am using the CalDav server provided by my work (SOGo/iredMail) . this provides me 3 calendars, one personal, one for my team, and one for the whole organisation.
Whenever i try to set a colour in the calendar settings it changes back to the defaults grey after a few seconds. Not sure if this is some setting on the calDav server (do they support color-coding on the server side?) or a bug with the settings, or if the calendar sync, is causing it to reset, but at the moment i'm stuck with boring grey appointments for everything .
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@sonik
Hi, it seams broken for me too using Vivaldi.net and CNET's 2021 Space Calendar on: Vivaldi 3.7.2218.32 / Chrome 89.0.4389.91 (Snapshot).
I donΒ΄t really need the feature but you can report a bug, if you like.For information on how to report a bug, see this URL: https://vvld.in/how-to-report-bugs
Once that is done, please share the bug number (beginning with VB-). Thanks.
Cheers, mib
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Submitted a bug report
VB-80492
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Just chipping in with that I have the same experience.
To make sure my issues were not due to something in the cache etc I have also done a reinstall by wiping the settings ( .config/vivaldi & .cache/vivaldi ) and set it up again. I still experience the same calendar issue (my server also utilizes SoGo if that could be a common denominator ). -
Calendar color settings STILL do not persist after saving changes - after submitting a "bug" report regarding this issue over 13 month ago!!!
Why release functions that do not work? - especially once it is is reported to not work it never gets fixed!!
I am a retired programmer - back in the day, if I released software that was totally non-functional I would have been fired!! - today no body cares
Suggestion: if the issue is not going to be addressed - at least remove the function - kind of embarrasing if you ask me.....
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@VivaLaUSA
Hi, totally non-functional meant something different than change colours does not work.
If it were so Windows was never functional.
Anyway, if I change the colour of my CalDav calender and save, the colour remains.
Can you tell us your setup, OS and Vivaldi version, please?OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
KDE-Plasma-Version: 5.21.3-1.1
Intel(R) i5-8350U 16 GB GPU
UHD 620
Vivaldi 5.4.2722.3 / Chrome 104.0.5112.27Cheers, mib
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Thanks for the reply...
I apologize for my frustrated response - it's just that I run into publicly released builds (including multi-billion dollar deposit banks) that have multiple issues on multiple supported browsers (that persist for many months and in some cases many years) that could have been easily be avoided via more diligent testing in the first place - but I digress...
Info taken from Vivaldi:
Vivaldi 5.3.2679.68 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision ecfb656707bbec7aa16f80eb0ea2f4e98e14567b
OS Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1766)
JavaScript V8 10.2.154.13
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.149 Safari/537.36The issue occurs on all calendars I have setup - that is I am able to change the color and presumably "save" changes as all functions appear to work during the process of changing colors - however the next time I render the Vivaldi calendar I will momentarily observe my expected changes only to observe within a second or two a reversion back to the default (original) colors (just as described by former posts in this topic). (see attached screen-shot):
(btw, not to belabor the point, but my meaning by "totally non-functional" is in reference to the Calendar "color" change functionality - not the entire browser of course, albeit I admittedly misspoke by generalizing to"software" in general (which would lead one to assume "software" in its totality) in my original post which is virtually never the case however in that issues will always apply to functional parts of an overall application - which is what I had intended to say). -
@VivaLaUSA
I understand.
I just add my not used Google calendar for a test, change the colour of the first 3 calendars and it stay, even I restart Vivaldi.
Same in the calendar view and panel.
Do you meant with "rerender" open the calendar page again?
I have no idea what influence this, maybe another user steps by to verify or not.
May you can test in a new profile, a local calendar should be enough for testing.Cheers, mib
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Thanks for the reply,
Now that I know it works for you this helps me to know that it is likely something on my end (that might include the theme I use perhaps or specific add-on(s) among other things)
Just to clarify - after more testing, I've noticed that my results aren't as consistent as first described. Sometimes the color change does hold for a few times opening the Calendar - it will vary as to how long the color will stick. But ultimately the colors will revert back to what they were originally.
As to what the colors revert to - I've called it "default" - however it appears to me that perhaps the colors of the Google Calendar (on-line) are the colors that is reverted to.
The colors for some entries are blue and others green - this is sort of what the colors revert to.... If the "default" colors for Vivaldi are not these colors (green/blue) then it would appear the colors reverted to have to do with the Google colors.
Also I am using a theme (dark) in Vivaldi (that appears to influence the actual color results I get in the calendar by modifying, darken, the html color(s) I select) -- so it could be a number of factors impacting my apparently unique, to me, results.
Does Vivaldi have what is commonly called a "safe-mode" (i.e. called a "Trouble-shoot" mode in Firefox) - that disables all add-ons for testing? (this would help eliminate the possibility of any extension interference).
Beyond testing for add-ons, I'll just live with the color I get as I don't want to change any other settings I use other than to test for possible add-on implication.
Once again, many thanks for your help.
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@VivaLaUSA
Hi, you can disable extensions with the command line switch
--disable-extension
The most Chromium switches work:https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
Cheers, mib
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So then, there's no easy way in Chromium browsers to test in a form of "safe-mode" (i.e. "trouble-shooting" mode)... (hence the "average" user is left in a state of ambivalence, especially considering the lack of documentation, as to how to accomplish an equivalent mode of testing in Vivaldi - details expended on below).
That is, the process of using command lines in Chromium browsers certainly does raise a number of questions:
- Regarding: "--disable-extensions"
Does this command disable ALL extensions?
Or if not are there command line parameters that apply to each extension? (I would presume "all" extensions are impacted - which raises question #2 in any case). - There isn't any counterpart command that I can find in the list of commands to reverse this result: i.e. "--enable-extensions" is not in the list of commands.
- So how is this ("--disable-extensions") action reversed (undone)?
- Presumably it is necessary to change the active directory to Vivaldi's installation path in the command prompt interface to then use the commands in the provided list.
Hmm, so it appears the Gecho browser and its derivative engines are far more "user friendly" when it comes to doing trouble-shoot testing.... I was hoping Vivaldi's "Private" Window (equivalent to Chromium's "Incognito") function might provide an easier way to test the browser w/out extensions - but no help there in as much as this approach disables Vivaldi's Calendar feature. I have to say, frankly, it seems hardly worth all this effort to test for a simple calendar color change issue....
- Regarding: "--disable-extensions"
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As a followup - I've found and installed the extension: "Disable Extensions Temporarily" (which presumably gets me to where I'm able to easily test for add-on interference in a more transparent way) - and with this have apparently ruled out interference by any extensions as I still get the same results as before.
So, as previously mentioned, I guess I'll just have to live with the color I get "as is" with the Vivaldi Calendar.
Btw, Vivaldi would be well advised to incorporate the equivalent of the "Disable Extensions Temporarily" add-on as a more transparent proprietary function of the browser (in order to have an equivalent, easily applied, "safe-mode" trouble-shooting function to what Gecho browsers provide their users). [light-bulb emoticon] (of course, the incorporation of this type of testing function precludes the need of an extension of this kind for browsers that use the Gecko, Goanna etc. category of engines) -- I guess the take-away message is to say that Vivaldi does not necessarily have to get-stuck-on-Chromium in the event there are better "workable" alternatives (of which, I can readily say, there are many).
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@VivaLaUSA
I am not sure I understand all you wrote but I can change the colours so it is not a Vivaldi problem.
The command disable all extensions and there is no counterpart except remove it.
You can change the desktop shortcut target with"c:\Program\vivaldi.exe" --disable-extensions
but I guess you know this.
Instead of using command line switches you can simply add a new profile. I have also a clean standalone install for testing those things.
As programmer you know you need a clean state for bug hunting, if a user add something, in this case extensions, nobody knows what really happen. If you report this as bug it will be rejected as "we cant reproduce".There are only Blink, WebKit and Gecko left as browser engines, not much choice I fear.
Cheers, mib
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@VivaLaUSA said in Calendar Colors don't persist on Save (calDAV):
As to what the colors revert to - I've called it "default" - however it appears to me that perhaps the colors of the Google Calendar (on-line) are the colors that is reverted to.
The colors for some entries are blue and others green - this is sort of what the colors revert to.... If the "default" colors for Vivaldi are not these colors (green/blue) then it would appear the colors reverted to have to do with the Google colors.
Also I am using a theme (dark) in Vivaldi (that appears to influence the actual color results I get in the calendar by modifying, darken, the html color(s) I select) -- so it could be a number of factors impacting my apparently unique, to me, results.What I had previously posted above is apparently what is occurring in my case - that is specific to the part of the quote above where I state: "... it would appear the colors reverted to have to do with the Google colors.
Also I am using a theme (dark) in Vivaldi (that appears to influence the actual color results..."What I have done is to actually change the colors in the Google Calendar (I'm using for the Vivaldi Calendar) and what I get by doing this is the color I've been attempting to change to via the Vivaldi Calendar settings (see screen-shot below).
If would appear that the "linked" Google Calendar colors supersede Vivaldi settings in my situation and most likely will be the case with anyone else under the same situation as well (I say this in as much as I get this same result in a "fresh" profile). Possibly the enabling of the Vivaldi "Sync Calendar" option by checking the "Active" box setting produces this result (I could test this by disabling the "Sync" option - but I won't bother as I've now got the results I have been attempting to get all this time).
To elaborate on the screen-shot; what I have done (as described in the screen-shot) is to change the Google Calendar colors to the color I want which is then reflected in the Vivaldi Calendar in the same way. Previously I would change the Vivaldi color setting to a "tan" color (light brown) from the Vivaldi default "blue" color but Vivaldi would eventually revert back to the "blue" color which the Google Calendar was using. As a result of changing the Google Calendar color from the "blue" it was formerly using to my desired color the Vivaldi Color is what I get. (What was obviously causing some confusion on my part is the fact that apparently the Vivaldi "default" blue color is a similar "blue" color that I was formerly using in my Google Calendar - which led me to believe that Vivaldi was reverting back to its default color when apparently the Calendar color was reverting back to the Google Calendar color)Also, as described in my previous post (above) because I'm using a "dark" theme this does impact the color in the Calendar in a different way than what Google has, but this is what was occurring as well when I would change the Vivaldi color setting (that would not persist) so there's no difference there in as much as this impact on colors by way of using a dark theme is presumably to be expected.
So it appears it all comes down to what color(s) the Google Calendar uses that I've "linked to" my Vivaldi Calendar with the Vivaldi Calendar "active sync" option enabled.
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@VivaLaUSA said in Calendar Colors don't persist on Save (calDAV):
(What was obviously causing some confusion on my part is the fact that apparently the Vivaldi "default" blue color is a similar "blue" color that I was formerly using in my Google Calendar - which led me to believe that Vivaldi was reverting back to its default color when apparently the Calendar color was reverting back to the Google Calendar color)
As a followup - this is not actually true now that I think more about this. What occurs is that Vivaldi will revert back to the color used in the linked Google Calendar so what Vivaldi takes is whatever the color is that is setup in the on-line Calendar that will then be used for the Vivaldi Calendar - which is what was previously occurring when Vivaldi would revert back to the "blue" color which at that time happened to be the color used in the Google Calendar prior to my changing the Google Calendar to the "tan" (light-brown) color which would hence presumably have nothing to do with any kind of "default" colors used by Vivaldi (but rather is solely dependent upon what colors are used in the on-line Calendar)....
So I've struck this part out of my previous post....
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@VivaLaUSA
Good you solved this issue for you.
I test this again and can verify I cant change the colours of a Google calendar from Vivaldi calendar settings.
I simply does not refresh in my first test, I am sorry for that.Cheers, mib