Hi Frank,

-- Message from Frank Niessink  (30.12.2009 14:20)
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> Hi Michael,
>
> 2009/12/30 Michael Jaeger <[email protected]
> <mailto:michael.jaeger%40in-flux.de>>:
> > -- Message from Frank Niessink  (29.12.2009 19:57)
> >> That's a good idea: that way no configurable option is needed. This
> >> would even work without the notification: Come to think of it, Task
> >> Coach already supports this more or less: right-click a task and then
> >> hit "New effort...", fill in the description and hit OK... Isn't that
> >> 80% of the solution?
> >>
> > That is nearly perfect -- if it would also work from the trayicon when
> > choosing "start stopwatch".  My proposition: when choosing "Start
> > Stopwatch" from the context menu and then doing a richt-click on a task
> > (or a click with a modifier key), then the "New effort..."-window
> shows up.
>
> I´m not sure I´m following you here. This sounds very complicated to
> me, but maybe I´m misunderstanding something. Are you suggesting that
> doing a right click on a task can result in two different results
> (bringing up a dialog or showing the context menu) depending on what
> the user did before right-clicking that task?
>
Sorry, I was not very clear about that.  When I am working, I am mostly
using the tray icon (right click on the tray icon > start stopwatch >
task).  Here, I do not have the choice to enter a description.

> I was thinking of giving the "New effort..." menu item a keyboard
> shortcut (e.g. Ctrl-E) so that you can select a task and then hit
> Ctrl-E to bring up the effort dialog and start tracking effort for
> that task.
>
Shortcuts are alway a brilliant idea :-).

Best,
Michael.

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