Re: [Planner] similarities with JCVGantt

[James White <james resolutionit ca>]

Lots of talk about Mind Mapping lately.

For me, I just want to see the planner do more planning.  But there is lots of work to do yet to make our planner into a complete project manager.  For starters, we might concentrate on more mundane things like:

• drag and drop tasks to move them higher or lower in the list
• context menu access to links - to move or remove an existing link
• see all of the menu items on a single screen.
• hot-keys for simple actions like moving a task up and down the list
• have a resource be planned for in TWO or more projects concurrently - which is going  to require database storage.
• the option of mySQL storage - it is ubiquitous and simple
• resource may have TWO or more hourly rates, or "roles" (shop and onsite, for example) and still be planned for
• project costing - we are SO CLOSE already... we just need a bit more work.
• plugin API for third-party reporting (or mind-mapping) tools

The planner is coming along nicely and I am grateful that finally someone in the Linux/Open-Source world has provided us with a functional planner (none of the rest are so functional or reliable).  I am grateful to see that it is being developed for Gnome - and so is faster by orders of magnitude than QT or Microsoft offerings.

I want to encourage the devs to make the planner into a better and better planner and project manager.  Mind Mapping is fun, but seems like a real tangential addition.  Perhaps more of a plug-in to be written by a third-party?

James
Montreal, Canada