[Evolution] comments on todo list

["Tom Musgrove" <TomM pentawall com>]

Hi I've been playing with evolution, and noticed the following thing about
the todo list...

When I delete items, the item that becomes the current item appears to be
fairly random.  The behavior that I would prefer is that it went to either
the item directly above, or directly below, or chronologically above or
below..

In addition to deleting items, I would much prefer to complete the item
(which would be signified by say, a strike through of the item summary...)

It would also be nice to have the origination date and due date listed with
the summary (as well as a followup date, if it is added...)

A couple of nice features that I've found in other ToDo managers are the
following...

Have the Todo associated with a contact, company, and/or project.
Have it associatable with multiple companies/contacts/projects -
For instance, in the construction industry, projects are coordinated among
10s - 100s of sub contractors, contractors, architects, and engineers.  Thus
a piece of information often has to be tracked with many individuals and
companies.  Also, because many of the same companies and people are working
on many different projects, it is also valuable to track the project that
the task is associated with.

The way "Commence 2000" (a contact manager specifically targeted at the
construction industry) does this is by having three additional fields

To do for companies, projects, contacts

each of which has a widget that creates 'one to many' relationships

There are also four other fields that are somewhat useful

Todo for appointment
Related to task
To do Journal
Originated by

I think the 'to do journal' is somewhat redundant, since other views should
provide essentially the same information.

Other useful fields are the "Follow Up date", "Recurring", "Share", "Type",
"Duration", "Start date" and "date completed".

I'll try and find some time to do an interface mock up, to give you a better
idea of what they use for a layout..

Tom M.
TomM pentstar com

PS - thanks for all of the excellent work that has gone into Evolution (and
the gnome libraries, and all of the other great GNU contributions)