Re: working on

[Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:54 +0100, Marie Durand wrote:
> First of all and to learn a bit Planner, I worked to keep
> the "Show Guide Lines" option checked from a work session to another
> one. At present, you need to reselect this option every time you run
> Planner.
> But with the patch, it is saved in the Gantt view structure so you
> needn't to reselect the option the next time you load your project.

Your patch looks good, and seems to work just fine.
I'm curious as to why your patch removes the
gantt_view_chart_scroll_event function??

> Other points are :
> * about the way you select dates on the calendar dialog :
> it would be nice to select a few dates and to be able to apply changes
> (like changing day-type) on every dates in the selection instead of date
> after date.
> So I added a GList of selected_days in the _PlannerCalendar structure.
> The list is updated when you keep the shift key engaged and you move
> from one date to another (it could be on other events as well of course,
> like selecting it with mouse...).

Sounds like a useful feature.

> However it's quite a lot of changes so before going ahead I wanted to
> know what you think about all this and how you would do it. (I still
> need to apply changes to the whole selection especially)
> 
> * about the HTML exportation :
> 	-- get internationalization for the html produced by the plugin
> It's a bit tricky because xlst files are written with English words in
> it for some labels like "Company", "Manager", "week"...
> 
> I thought about :
> 		- adding a new set of translation files for this plugin but it
> wouldn't be very "clean", also you would need to put the current
> language information when you generate the XML.
> 		- adding every word needed for presentation on the XML data, already
> translated in the same way that every other word in the application.
> Then you just have to get the translated word in the stylesheets instead
> of writting it. I think it would be ok that way.
> 		- any idea ? (generating at least parts of the xslt files ? not so
> easy...)

If I undertand you correctly, we've had similar thoughts.
I was thinking of creating
entities for all of the words/phrases in the html output we'd need
translated, put them in separate files by language (something like
en.xml, es.xml, etc.), then teach Planner to pass the language to the
stylesheet and the stylesheet to import the correct language file.

> 	-- don't put in the HTML information from the columns which are not in
> "visible state" on the different views
> (For example, if you don't want anyone to see the cost of your resources
> for the project. )
> 		- a simple way to make this would be to put blank information when
> generating the XML where columns are set to be hide
> 		- otherwise you would have to generate the presentation stylesheets
> dynamically...

Hmmm - not being an HTML expert, how would that look?  Would the blank
columns still show, or would they collapse so that they're essentially
hidden?

> * also, have you thought about including PERT diagrams in Planner ?

There's an old bug entry on this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130875

If its something you'd like to work on, that would be great!


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Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>