Hi Frank, -- Message from Frank Niessink (30.12.2009 14:20) > > > 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.
