Hi all,
I've a little query for users. I'm wondering, whether the line "Click to
add a task" in Tasks view (see attachment), or "Click to add a memo" in
Memos view, is any of use these days. It's there to allow quick entering
of tasks/memos, but it doesn't offer a flexible way of doing that like
the editor (File->New->Task/Memo).
The "Click to add" could be eventually replaced with a simple top bar
above the table which would look like:
[ Summary | Due date | Add ]
Aka one would be able to fill a task Summary and Due date (optionally)
only, to quickly add a task, instead of being able to write to each
shown column in the table.
I'm asking this, because the underlying widget is an old
evolution-specific table, which I'd like to replace with a standard
GtkTreeView, but I'm not able to mimic this behavior with it. Moving to
GtkTreeView may make the view look like any other tree view in the
system, and, as one of the next steps, I'd provide a possibility to add
there any property from the component as a column, and eventually also
relationship between tasks (making it a tree). While the later is not
completely blocked by the use of the evolution-specific widget, the
former is, which is a reason why there is a limited list of columns.
There can be one disadvantage, the GtkTreeView is significantly slower
with larger sets (thousands of items), but I guess it's not an issue
with Tasks/Memos view, is it?
Thanks and bye,
Milan
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