Tasks 0.4

Tasks 0.4 is released! This release has some good new features:

Tasks

Sources are available on the OpenedHand Projects site, which also links to Debian packages.

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09:30 Friday, 16 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (13 comments)

Posted by pel at Fri Mar 16 11:04:17 2007:
That is one darn good looking theme, wich one is it?
Posted by Ross at Fri Mar 16 11:20:03 2007:
The theme is Jakub's Darkilouche (just google for it).
Posted by pel at Fri Mar 16 11:23:20 2007:
That is one darn good looking theme, wich one is it?
Posted by Alan Horkan at Fri Mar 16 11:24:19 2007:
Usability guidelines will say not to create submenus for less than three items.  The same generally applies for top level menus.  Even on a small screen user interface you should have 3 top level menus since the File (or in this case Tasks) and Help menus are very often full of generic items. 

Perhaps you plan to add another top level menu or two but if not then the features you want to highlight might be better served by a simple toolbar.  (My own bias is for menus.)

I realise you are designing for a handheld device which is a good discipline but the the use of menus and toolbars could make a huge difference to those who enjoy using small dedicated applications like these on a full Gnome desktop.
Posted by Adam Williamson at Fri Mar 16 13:56:23 2007:
Package submitted to Mandriva 2007 backports - not to Cooker as it's currently in a new version freeze for 2007.1. I'll send it to cooker and 2007.1 backports after 2007.1 is released.
Posted by EddyP at Fri Mar 16 21:58:10 2007:
eddy@bounty ~/usr/src/tasks/tasks-0.4 $ src/./tasks

(tasks:25613): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_insert_with_values: assertion `iter != NULL' failed

(tasks:25613): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_insert_with_values: assertion `iter != NULL' failed

(tasks:25613): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_insert_with_values: assertion `iter != NULL' failed

(tasks:25613): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_insert_with_values: assertion `iter != NULL' failed

(tasks:25613): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_insert_with_values: assertion `iter != NULL' failed

** (tasks:25613): WARNING **: Cannot load UI: Failed to open file '/usr/local/share/tasks/tasks-ui.xml': No such file or directory

** (tasks:25613): WARNING **: koto-group-combo.c:70: unhandled group type 0

(tasks:25613): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkEntry - did not receive focus-out-event. If you
connect a handler to this signal, it must return
FALSE so the entry gets the event as well

Gtk-ERROR **: file gtkentry.c: line 4965 (blink_cb): assertion failed: (GTK_WIDGET_HAS_FOCUS (entry))
aborting...
Aborted


Use focus under mouse, type o add a task, move the mouse away
Posted by Matt Good at Tue Mar 20 06:49:47 2007:
Nice and simple :)

This might be nice as a panel applet.  The applet could list the # of tasks and clicking would drop down the window to update or add tasks.

This could also be really nice for implementing a GTD system.  The main limitation there is that you can only choose one category.  If you could choose multiple categories per task you could select both a "context" and a "project" associated with the task.  An input like the "Topics" input from the Epiphany bookmark dialog would work nicely: http://peter.a.harvey.googlepages.com/entry1.png
Posted by nash at Wed Mar 21 01:07:10 2007:
So according to the licence in the about page...
"Sound Juicer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."

What licence is Tasks under?
Posted by Matt Good at Wed Mar 21 02:40:36 2007:
nash: Tasks is also GPL: http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/tasks/trunk/COPYING
Posted by Ross at Wed Mar 21 06:47:32 2007:
That bug was fixed promptly after 0.4, this is the third time someone has told me.

I wasn't going to do a 0.4.1 with that fix in, but I might have to!
Posted by Daniel Pörsch at Thu Mar 22 21:56:01 2007:
Hey Ross,

nice application looks really simple and useful. Are you planning to make a port for Nokia N800? Would be  too cool :)

Thanks!
Daniel
Posted by Daniel Pörsch at Thu Mar 22 22:01:21 2007:
Hi again,

sorry found an already existing bug concerning Hildon UI, looking forward ...

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250

Cheers,
Daniel
Posted by Dan Young at Mon Apr 23 20:51:11 2007:
Tasks is now available in Fedora Extras.

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