Tasks 0.1
I've just tagged and rolled a Tasks 0.1 tarball. Tasks is a simple To Do manager, using GTK+ and libecal (part of Evolution Data Server). It isn't very featureful at the moment, but it's progressing nicely: I'm using it already.
I'll be adding this to the OpenedHand Projects site shortly, but for now here is a tarball.
Posted by miek at Fri Feb 23 12:21:50 2007:
Posted by dood at Fri Feb 23 13:03:49 2007:
Posted by Benoît Dejean at Fri Feb 23 13:19:14 2007:
Excellent !
These OH projects dates, constacts and now tasks are nice little apps that use EDS. It is great for integration.
Posted by Henrik at Fri Feb 23 13:22:38 2007:
These OH projects dates, constacts and now tasks are nice little apps that use EDS. It is great for integration.
Yay, simplicity is great! Sometimes you just want a simple todo list :)
That said, I've started implementing a GTD system form myself recently (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtd) and find it works quite well. (Just using tomboy, not a software system). You might enjoy reading about this paper-based version: http://pigpog.com/node/1030
Posted by Luca at Fri Feb 23 14:17:26 2007:
That said, I've started implementing a GTD system form myself recently (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtd) and find it works quite well. (Just using tomboy, not a software system). You might enjoy reading about this paper-based version: http://pigpog.com/node/1030
Nice tool. Here I uploaded a small patch to make calendar widget in date combo more similar to the one used in gnome clock applet.
http://www.rootshell.be/~loopback/tasks/tasks-clock-applet-consistency.patch
Posted by Luca at Fri Feb 23 14:22:22 2007:
http://www.rootshell.be/~loopback/tasks/tasks-clock-applet-consistency.patch
Nice tool. Here I uploaded a small patch to make calendar widget in date combo more similar to the one used in gnome clock applet.
http://www.rootshell.be/~loopback/tasks/tasks-clock-applet-consistency.patch
Posted by mike at Fri Feb 23 14:28:28 2007:
Posted by David Nielsen at Fri Feb 23 15:12:20 2007:
http://www.rootshell.be/~loopback/tasks/tasks-clock-applet-consistency.patch
This is awesome, the dream of slaying Evolution is growing ever closer.
Simple and elegant, the way a program should be.
Posted by Brian Nickel at Fri Feb 23 19:17:46 2007:
Simple and elegant, the way a program should be.
It's sweet but it's not really integrating with the desktop. Events I add via Tasks do not show up in the calendar applet or Evolution. I can see tasks I've added in Evolution, but any changes I make in Tasks only show up in Tasks.
Posted by Xavier Bestel at Fri Feb 23 20:54:27 2007:
Posted by Alan at Fri Feb 23 21:48:33 2007:
Nice work - just replaced gtodo with this, this seems to work a bit nicer and a bit more lightweight. One thing though - changing calendar month when setting the date for a task gets rid of the calendar widget (for me, anyway).
Posted by Kaka at Sat Feb 24 01:22:30 2007:
Sweet work! I just love it, it's now more useful than Tomboy for my case, keep up good work!
PS: I just love all apps you wrote so far, like the GNOME Dictionary and Sound Juicer. Sound Juicer artwork is perfect, but I still feel that the GNOME Dictionary icon is abit ... ugly and bit glossy, why don't you ask those people at #tango to give you a nicer icon?
Posted by Emmanuele Bassi at Sat Feb 24 10:27:53 2007:
Posted by Ross at Sat Feb 24 10:28:46 2007:
PS: I just love all apps you wrote so far, like the GNOME Dictionary and Sound Juicer. Sound Juicer artwork is perfect, but I still feel that the GNOME Dictionary icon is abit ... ugly and bit glossy, why don't you ask those people at #tango to give you a nicer icon?
It is using the exact same data source as the panel applet and the Evolution tasks component. If they don't appear in the other, welcome to a weird and wonderful bug in Evolution Data Server. I'll try and find out what the problem is, because its really nasty.
Henrik: Yes, I've seen the GTD thing. Version 0.2 will have support for contexts. I'm also figuring out a way of doing projects.
Posted by Emmanuele Bassi at Sat Feb 24 10:39:31 2007:
Henrik: Yes, I've seen the GTD thing. Version 0.2 will have support for contexts. I'm also figuring out a way of doing projects.
Kaka: on a more serious note - I drew the dictionary icon myself using the tango guidelines; but I'm not an icon artist whatsoever, and I'm just waiting for someone to design a better icon. :-)
Posted by Ross at Sat Feb 24 12:26:16 2007:
Posted by Drew at Sat Feb 24 12:49:47 2007:
Some fairly obvious improvements (that I'm sure are in the pipeline):
- remember window size/position
- number of items in title bar, eg: Tasks (21)
I actually have 21 items in there already :)
I'm looking forward to the context/projects grouping functionality too!
Posted by Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle at Sat Feb 24 16:31:12 2007:
- remember window size/position
- number of items in title bar, eg: Tasks (21)
I actually have 21 items in there already :)
I'm looking forward to the context/projects grouping functionality too!
I guess you should be proud of all this feedback. Congratulations!
I'm beginning to use contacts, and planning to use dates soon. I was about to ask for a tasks :)
IMHO, an applet would be nice for the desktop users, and allowing contexts (à la GTD) would be great for handheld users. Sitting in front of a computer is one single context, but if you can carry it in your pocket you may use it to remember what you need to do in the way back home, or at the phone, or while shopping, and so on.
Keep up the good work!
Posted by Ross at Sun Feb 25 10:51:12 2007:
I'm beginning to use contacts, and planning to use dates soon. I was about to ask for a tasks :)
IMHO, an applet would be nice for the desktop users, and allowing contexts (à la GTD) would be great for handheld users. Sitting in front of a computer is one single context, but if you can carry it in your pocket you may use it to remember what you need to do in the way back home, or at the phone, or while shopping, and so on.
Keep up the good work!
To everyone has noticed that changes in Tasks don't reflect in the panel or Evolution, you'll want to apply this patch to fix a bug in Evolution Data Server.
