Re: [tasklist] ui review of tasklist

Hi Tor,

>
> 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.

Who are HIEs?

>
> * 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.

Too bad. It doesn't match my style of work. I have a very deep tree of
tasks.
But it can be changed very easily.

>   As a side note, we should make cut & paste from the suggestions
>   view to the user task view work!

Right

>
> * 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?).

Was on my own task list.

> Great work on the new New Task toolbar, Tim! Thanks!

Thank you very much. I think we need a better icon for seach/filter
and additional for "purge completed" and "expand all".

> With this new New Task button, we probably don't need "New Task" on the
> global toolbar either.

Yes.

>
> So the tasklist toolbar on the main window should get smaller.
> Perhaps we don't need it at all - after all, other windows tend not
> to have a "Show Window" button on the toolbar (I originally added the
> toolbar because the New Task button was to inconvenient in a menu, but
> now it has a prominent location when the tasklist window is open).
>
> So, perhaps we can get rid of the main toolbar and only have
> "View | User Task List", "View | Suggestions", etc. ?

I don't think so. A toolbar can be hidden very easily. But it is much more
difficult to create one. At least in the current version of NB.

> Also, it would be cool if the user tasklist toolbar was configurable.
> I think that should be as simple as going to the layer files and
> defining a new folder under the Toolbars directory on the system
> file system - and then reading those folders when deciding to create
> a toolbar for each window.
>
> E.g.
>   Toolbars
>      User Tasks
>          NewTaskAction.instance
>          FilterAction.instance
>      Suggestions
>          FixAction.instance
>          GoToSourceAction.instance
>          FilterAction.instance

I will create an issue for it

Tim