Re: GTT suggestion

[Eckehard Berns <eb berns i-s-o net>]

> > I could show the projects name if only one project is running, and a notice
> > how many projects are currently running otherwise.
> 
> [total time][4 projects running          ]
> [total time][Working on lame webpages    ]
> 
> Something like that perhaps?

Exactly. This reminds me of another problem though. The total time might not
be of any value then. At the moment the total time is calculated by summing up
the daily time of all projects. I would have to record the total time on its
own. Which leads to another problem. If you correct some time values by hand
this would not show up in the total time any more.

Maybe I could imlement a feature of the original time tracker to reflect these
corrections. It shows the difference of the recorded time and corrections. The
status bar could show something like

[01:34 +00:05][3 projects running     ]

if you added 5 minutes to one project. This behavior should be optional
though.

> > In the beginning I implemented the start/stop timer stuff as an
> > alternative to a selected/unselected project with subtle differences
> > in the behavior of gtt. But this seems to just confuse the user so
> > I'll drop this anyway.
> 
> Yes.. if we go for the list-version, it won't do any good.. (will the
> start/stop in the menu??)

On the other hand... If you go for lunch and want to stop all projects for
that time, and when you come back you want to continue these projects, you
might find it convenient to have this global start/stop timer thingie. Hmm,
I'll have to redesign its functionality but I'll keep the menu items and the
toolbar icon.

> Pre-info: Selected projects are running.
>           Selecting a running project stops it.
> 
>  0 selected, user clicks on one: it gets selected
>  1 selected, user clicks on one: it gets selected instead of the old
>  1 selected, user ctrl-clicks on one: the new gets selected as well as
>    the old
> 2+ selected, user (ctrl or not-)clicks on one: the new gets selected too
> 
> Something like that? AFAIK, only last thing is non-standard...

Yepp, this sounds good. I'll do it this way...

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Eckehard Berns