[Gpe-list] Case-insensitive category names

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

Graham Cobb wrote:
> I am looking into fixing the bug with syncing categories.  I need to translate 
> the category names provided from Opensync into the numbers used in GPE.  I am 
> looking at adding a new function to libgpepimc to lookup categories by name:
> 
> gint *gpe_pim_category_id (gchar name)
> 
> analogous to the existing: const gchar *gpe_pim_category_name (gint id)

Sounds good to me.

> I am thinking of making the lookup case-independent as I think it will be 
> confusing to users to have two categories which differ only in case and I 
> think it likely that the case used on a different system may not be exactly 
> the same.  For example, the way that the Maemo keyboard works category names 
> created there will tend to be in "sentence case" (a single initial capital 
> letter with lower case for the rest) but categories in Outlook tend to be 
> in "title case" (an initial capital for each word of the category name). 
> 
> I am also thinking of changing gpe_pim_category_new and 
> gpe_pim_category_rename to do a lookup first so they can reject attempts to 
> create categories which differ only in case.  

That's a good idea, I can't imagine a situation where we would need context
sensitive categories.

> Does anyone have any comment on these changes?  I am not planning to change 
> the categories UI.

Please do it in this way unless someone comes up with a good reason why we
should not do it in this way very soon. :)

Greetings

Florian

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