Great and simple applet for people who don't need complex task management. great job

asomething said:
It has a DBus API, so there it could be a way to add some more functionality to your applet without starting from scratch.

I don't understand the need for an applet that interact with an already running application, which i can access with the same number of click in the systray. If I want to add a task to tasque I'll use the tasque interface or the gnome-do plugin (which is the fastest way to create a task).

It is also valid for other apps discussed in other thread like tomboy. Maybe i'm missing something...

hopecon_ said:
It is also valid for other apps discussed in other thread like tomboy. Maybe i'm missing something...

You are - if you interact only with a direct data store, you'll have to code your own RTM backend (if people want it). There is some pre-build functionality. Look at the clock-calendar applet - you can apply the same argument you made to say it shouldn't interact with gCal, or with evolution.

asomething said:
Have you seen this? http://live.gnome.org/Tasque

I'd love to check it out, but unfortunately, gnome.org is down (for me at least). Anything GNOME is down, even pygtk.org. Does anyone know of a mirror?

hopecon_ said:
It's not the same thing. I understand the whole "pre-built" funcitonality and all. But to use the DBus interface of Tasque or Tomboy, Tasque/tomboy process need to be running. Therefore why would I need an applet on my dock to interact with Tasque (or Tomboy) if I can access directly in the notification area? Accessing the application via the dock won't make its use any faster nor easier. In this case simply use the application, period. Creating applet just for "the applet sake" is pointless.

I would assume the applications in question are client/server in nature and the notification area application is just a client. But that is a guess as I don't really go for these types of organization tools (though maybe I should)... but it's how I'd do it. In which case you get the beauty of allowing multiple frontends.

Another thing I would note... a surprising number of people do not use a notification area and even more would like to get rid of it.

moonbeam said:
Since you have a couple awn applets and you seem to be actively developing them I've just went ahead and added you to awn-extras so you can check in your updates, when/if you feel it's a good idea.

Great. Thanks. :)
When I think this applet is ready for inclusion in Awn Extras, how would I go about including it? I'm thinking I should upload it without doing the Makefile stuff, and asking if it should be included. And, if so, where should I do that? Thanks.

searayman said:
I would love to see a video of this working if anyone has the time to create it.

I made a quick video of this using gtk-recordMyDesktop, however, I have two questions:
The video is at 1280x1024 (my resolution), so how would I resize it to something smaller?
And, what's a good host for uploading this, other than YouTube, etc?

sharkbait said:
I made a quick video of this using gtk-recordMyDesktop, however, I have two questions:
The video is at 1280x1024 (my resolution), so how would I resize it to something smaller?
And, what's a good host for uploading this, other than YouTube, etc?

well i was goign to suggest youtube or google video for resizing lol. I would just use either of them its quick and easy.

searayman said:
well i was goign to suggest youtube or google video for resizing lol. I would just use either of them its quick and easy.

Alright, here's a video.

recordMyDesktop really slows my computer, so things like the black box when dragged and the icon staying on Awn longer than it should are the results of recordMyDesktop using most of my processing power.

searayman said:
sweet super cool concept. Now only if we could do this with every screenlet...

Thanks. I'm working on making it so the detach file is separate from the applet, and the applet maker would only need to add about a dozen or so lines to make it detach.

searayman said:
I do think the icon looks a little cheesy though..

What kind of icon would you suggest? When I first started work on this I was thinking of using the current theme's checkmark icon (as in "check off an item on the list"), but I thought that was kinda cheesy... :)

rospo said:
need some dependices for use these applets?

Oops, I hadn't thought about that. The only dependency that I know of is a version of Awn Extras greater than 0.2.6. However, that's the latest release. If you have Ubuntu, you can install a testing version from the Awn Testing PPA. Otherwise, the only other way would be to install from source.
When I get back to my Linux box sometime today I'll fix that (should be a quick and easy fix).

jim01 said:
Is there any way to increase the width of the displayed list? I like to write long todo items and then have to scroll to read it.

jim01 said:
Is there a way to changed the colors used for the priority of an item?

There is now. :) (r787) Thanks for both suggestions.

I am red-green colorblind and wondering, how do the colors for priority look? I forgot about that when writing it, and didn't think about how it would look to others. :)

Btw, for those who don't know, there is a preference window in to-do now. You can change the title, whether or not to confirm when removing items and categories, the icon color and type (including custom colors), and (now) the width and priority colors. You can configure the icon to show the overall progress of the entire to-do list.