Re: Hamster (Gnome Time Tracker) integration

Sébastien Lerique <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:51:29 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.workrave.user
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On 13/02/16 17:37, Sébastien Lerique wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm a happy user of workrave, and have recently started using Project
> Hamster <https://projecthamster.wordpress.com/> (aka Gnome Time Tracker)
> which is another great project. If you're not familiar with it: it lets
> you define your current task (title, with optional tags and
> description), click stop whenever you're done (or switch to something
> else, or add an earlier activity you forgot to log), and later get an
> overview of where your time went.
>
> This works great with workrave.
>
> Now there's an issue on their tracker for integration between hamster
> and workrave (not really a priority, but still):
> https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues/246 . Taken from there,
> the two ideas are:
>
> 1) workrave could "ask whether current task is still correct on
> resumption from micro or rest breaks"
> 2) hamster could "pause timing during rest break"
>
> A comment further down
> <https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues/246#issuecomment-183665366>
> explains hamster already publishes changes to dbus, so idea #1 could
> maybe not be that far.
>
> Does this interest anybody else? Does anybody familiar with the codebase
> know if this would be doable? Worth filing a bug? (I realise there are
> other time trackers out there, and integrating with only one may
> frustrate other users. Is there maybe a plugin mechanism in the works?)
>
> Idea #2 would probably need workrave to publish its status changes to
> dbus (or maybe it's already done?)
>
> Anyway, just trying to get a feel for what's involved in this idea.
> Thanks for the great software, dear devs!
>
> Sébastien (@wehlutyk in the github issue)
>
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