[tasklist] ui review of tasklist
Tor Norbye <[email protected]>
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Some of the HIE's at Sun reviewed the tasklist the other day (I gave a quick virtual tour). This is the feedback I got. * They were concerned about the automatic-computation of percentages for parent tasks. If you have a task with a single subtask, checking done on the subtask marks the parent task done as well. The recommendation is to change the default on tasks from "Compute" to "0 %". Thus, if you have lots of subtasks and you'd like the percent complete auto computed, select "Compute" as the percentage. But when you have one or two subtasks, you don't confused. * They felt the distinction between the user tasklist and the suggestions view was a little unclear (given that for example Studio .NET has a single view for these two purposes). After seeing how you can create multiple tasklists, how it can integrate with other calendar managers etc. I think it was a bit clearer, but this is something the documentation should make clear (the biggest problem was the source-task-scanner, since the user enters these tasks in the source code (and the New Task dialog refers to them) yet these end up in the Suggestions view. Also, not all suggestions are suggestions - the TODOs for example. The "Tell me How" documentation on the New Task dialog in particular should clarify this point. As a side note, we should make cut & paste from the suggestions view to the user task view work! * When you export to HTML you get multiple dialogs (enter file name, do you want to include gifs?, file exists - are you sure?, do you want to show the result?). Try to combine at least some of these into the original file chooser (probably not file exists - are you sure?). * Some discussion on menu lengths, click-to-insert task and its problems, etc. I think somebody took minutes so when I see them I'll forward. -- Tor