[Planner Dev] Some bugs/RFE

[Santiago Erquicia <serquicia argentina com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to start a new project and I'm planning to use planner for
planning and controlling it.

I'm using version 0.12.1 under Fedora Core 2.

Here are the different issues I'm having:

1- In the Gantt Chart I cannot specify durations in months, only days.

2- If I choose that a task has a fixed duration, I cannot specify the
finish date in the Task View.  I just can specify the work.  Shouldn't
we have a Duration column in this view and allow to change it's value if
the task has a fixed duration and don't allow to change the work?

3- There isn't any way, at least that I could find, to specify in the
project or Planner itself if tasks are going to be work or duration
driven.  If there were, what would be better in the Gantt Chart, show
the work or duration column?

4. While I'm changing the finish date of a task in the Gantt Chart, it
would be good if when I reach the right limit of the screen that it
scroll automatically.  Now I need to unclick it, scroll a little, move
the final date again.  This is specially a problem when you cannot
insert anything different than dates.

5. The new project starts at the current day by default.  When I change
the project starting date to a future date and click in some other place
I can see how the Task View is updated.  As soon as I click the close
button, it goes back to the previous date of the one that I selected.

Trying to get a explanation of what happens I see that that's not
totally correct.  Sometimes as soon as I move to another widget it
changes the date I just inserted, other the tasks change their date,
etc.  I don't know exactly what's going on but I'm sure something is
wrong :-(

6. If I set a task as fixed duration, shouldn't it gray out the box of
the necessary work to accomplish it?  I mean, shouldn't it happen the
opposite as what happens when it is work driven?

7. There should be a task edit button or resource button on the toolbar,
depending the view.  This is the most common action to perform in those
views.

8. When editing the relationships between tasks there is no clear
indication of the unit of time used for lag.

9. If you enter a task in the Gantt Chart where its name is longer than
the current Name column, it automatically resizes it.  Shouldn't it be
the opposite?  I don't want to be changing every time I add a new task
the separator between the table and the graph to see the Work column.

This is what I have founded until now.  If you think this is worth to
put into bugzilla, please let me know which ones.

Thanks,
Santiago