Le 25 mars 2010 à 22:35, Frank Niessink a écrit : > Hi Jérôme, > > I just wanted to say: thanks! for all the work you're doing on Task > Coach. I appreciate it. I'd like to spend more time on discussing > large and small plans for the development of Task Coach with you, but > I find it hard to find the time. After my recent back problems I > decided to spend a bit more time on my health and a little less time > sitting still in front of the computer. I'm now rowing (on a concept > 2) 10K every other day which is great, but leaves less time for > hacking. On the other hand, we seem to get along quite nicely without > having a lot of discussion :-)
Indeed. Here in France working too much is illegal :) > > Still, I think there are a couple of "big" issues/ideas for the coming > period we should discuss: > > 1. More and more Linux distributions are moving to Python 2.6. That > means we cannot support SyncML on those platforms. I'd like to remove > support for SyncML all together to simplify the build process for > Linux and simplify the code as well. I think we can rid of the > "shadowing" when SyncML support is dropped. Am I right on that? Go ahead. I must say I don't have enough time to maintain the Python SyncML binding; it's already obsolete. And it's a PITA to maintain binaries for all possible platforms. What do you call "shadowing" ? > > 2. Remove the timeline viewer in favor of the calendar viewer. I guess > we can do that as soon as the calendar viewer supports periods longer > than a month? Yes, and once the display bugs are ironed out. > > 3. Integrate tasks and notes. I'd like to make the taskviewer display > notes in the same way as subtasks, as well as stand alone notes. Then > we can get rid of the notes viewer. I remember a thread about this long in the past. It would be nice; with the current UI one can get notes lost in the depth of the tree... > > 4. I'd like to use categories for distinguishing between task states > and maybe even between tasks, notes, and effort. I'm envisioning that > we have readonly categories for completed tasks, inactive tasks, etc., > and that when the user marks a task completed it is automatically put > into the right category. By changing the appearance of the "completed > tasks" category users can change the appearance of all completed > tasks. This is why I worked on the configurable icons, by the way. I > would also hope that categories can take over the role of templates in > the long run. How ? > > 5 ... More? My own pet feature is multiple users support. I have some ideas for a distributed (peer to peer) way to do this. Cheers Jérôme
