Re: [tasklist] Task.temporary

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tim Lebedkov wrote:

 | Hello,
 | 
 | I found out that Task.temporary is not used.
 | So if there are no objections I will remove it.
 | 

Here's a little background on that field.  Earlier, there used to be a
single tasklist window which contained both your user entered tasks, as
well as "dynamic" items like TODOs scanned from your source code. You
obviously don't want these TODOs showing up in your user task list file -
or even cause a tasklist filesave when they're added or modified. Thus,
the temporary attribute.

We don't need it now since we have separate views for user tasks
(persistent) and dynamic tasks (temporary). However, one of the feedback
datapoints from the UI review was that the distinction between user tasks
and suggestions is a bit murky (especially in the area of TODOs which the
user did enter - but in the source code). Afterall, VS.NET and Eclipse
have single tasklist windows, not multiple (although granted their user
task support is a bit more limited).

So if we'll have a single view in the future the concept may become useful
again - but of course various other code changes will be necessary, so we
don't need to hang on to this attribute now. But if you see temporary in
some unusual places, perhaps leave a comment as a reminder. Feel free to
rip it out.

-- Tor