Configurable start of day in Workview

[Matthias Fasching]

In the workview Tasks that start "today" and end e.g. in 6 days are not listed in the workview view of GTG. They are listed as soon as the start date gets "yesterday", which causes somebody to oversee the task for one (the first) day of possible execution.

How to solve this:
1) Change default start date to 4am
2) Build plugin which allows you to choose start of day in Workview. It should be possible to set the start hour even day before it.

I would like to see what I can do tomorrow, so in the evening (e.g. 9PM) I can see tasks for tomorrow.

[Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)]

Which version of gtg are you running?

[Matthias Fasching (fasmat)]

I'm using version 0.2.4 from the official stable ppa. Interestingly the tasks starting today are now shown in the workview.

I was working on my task list late at night (after midnight) and entered some tasks that start today, which were not shown in the workview, even after a restart of GTG. Now (about 10 hours later) they are shown. Hope this information helps to localize the bug.

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

Matthias > it's not a bug, it's a feature ;-)

We considered that a day starts at 6AM. Before that, you are generally working late on the day before. Maybe this should be discussed

[Matthias Fasching (fasmat)]

Lionel > That's probably the most famous answer on each bug-tracker ;-)

OK, now I know this I will keep it in mind. Maybe this issue could be solved by adding an option to enter starting/ending times, and if no time is entered it is still considered to start at 6AM? I wrote another bug report on this topic, now that I know that both are linked together, maybe they could be merged?

The link to the other bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtg/+bug/561095

[Cliff (klfjoat)]

I have the same issue on 0.2.4. Interestingly, even setting the Due Date to today did not allow the task to show in the Work View. From my perspective, any task with a Due Date of today should show up in the Work View.

Personally, I think that the concept of "work start time" and "work end time" are the domain of a calendar/event system, not a task system.

If you do decide to keep the start time, I think that if you're going to make an assumption ("the day starts at 6am"), then for usability purposes it makes sense to expose that assumption to the user in some fashion. Either in help text, or by allowing the user to change the "work time" in preferences (similar to Evolution's Day begins and Day ends fields).

[Olivier FAURAX (olivier-faurax)]

I would be in favor of day start at midnight, like on rememberthemilk.com.

[Ctbeiser (ctbeiser)]

It seems that it's confusing for people to have their tasks say they end on days which aren't when they end, but that said, if it's maintained as a feature, I'd reccomend pushing it back to 4 or 5 am, because basically nobody is awake at 4 am, whereas there are a probably a couple of insane people awake at 6. I'd think that adding a preference for it would be more GUI clutter than is justified for the low level of utility, but I guess if someone wants it in a conf file somewhere, that'd be fine.