[Evolution] Task list ideas

[bfrantzdale THUBAN AC HMC EDU]

I know this is a CVS snapshot so this is unfinished. I'm sure many of
these ideas have been thought of already and are being implimented. Take
these as brainstorming ideas.



Dates:

It would be nice if the Due Date entry had a drop-down menu with today,
tommarow, and one week later. At least allowing the date box to parse
things like:

``today'' => 1/24/01
``in an hour'' => 1/24/01 9:27 PM
``11PM'' => 1/24/01 11:00 PM
``Friday'' => 1/26/01

along with the normal form.(*)


Overall the Due Date entry (as well as some others below) feels to me like
it's a text entry box even though it should be a date entry box. 

Having it default to a time of 00:00:00 isn't quite
user-friendly. Perhaps having it default to have no time at all if none is
given? A more human-readable format like the mail component now has
would be good. When a deadline approaches it could become ``11PM tonight''
or ``in 2:15'' or whatever... 

Other entry boxes:

As I mentioned, lots of the boxes seem (and I guess are) just hacked text
entry boxes. As such their use isn't obvious. For example it would be
sensable to say ``low'' in the priority box but it wants 0--9. Isn't that
what a GtkOptionMenu be better?

The same goes for % complete. I'd think a slider or an option menu would
do best.

Geographical Position (in coordinates) is a bit useless. If it were
attached to mapping software then it might help... What would be best,
though is if it knew the user a bit better and could know about home,
work, etc. (That connected to a GPS could remind someone to get milk on
the way home :-)

The URL entry could do with being clickable.

Also, what does Transparency do?

--Ben

(*)
In the future it would be very cool (though natural language parsing is a
pain) to have things like:

``after lab on friday'' => check calander for friday, grep for "lab" =>
1/26/01 5:30 PM

or

``once Ryan has finished secret project x'' => addressbook for who I call
Ryan => ask his publicly available task list for notification when
"project x" is done.

I'm rambeling, but that sort of functionality, when it's time comes, would
be very powerfull.