Re: Tasklist UI proposal

Hi Tor,

Thanks for all you've already done on the task list module.  I use it a lot.  I
have a couple of suggestions:

For "Source Code Integration":
It would be nice if the mechanism for finding todo items in source was
extensible, so that other modules could add the ability to recognise todo items
in the data types that they support.  The mechanism might typically be using
regexps as described for Java, but it would be good to allow for other
techniques that are appropriate to particular data object types.  For example, I
might have an XML format that isn't primarily for storing todo items, but that
can contain todo annotations as XML.  (e.g using a different namespace from the
rest of the document).  I'd like to be able to recognise them and have them
appear in the to do list in exactly the same way as Java todos.

I think that it would be good if the todo list didn't just show the todos for
the current source file, but for all open source files.

I think that it would be useful if the todo recognition functionality was also
exposed as a search type in the "Find" dialogue.  That is, you should be able to
find all todo items in the source files in a selected set of folders.  By
selecting all files in the search results and opening them, you would see all
their todo items (if the suggestion above is accepted).

Additional task attributes:
One thing that I would like to have is the ability to put estimated durations
against todo tasks and time remaining for tasks, and an action that could
display the total estimate (time or time remaining) for a list, or for user
categories (subcategories) in a list.  Alternatively, perhaps the todo list
could have a status bar that shows the number of items, estimated total
duration, number over-due, etc.



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