Comment 10 for bug 319152

For the record, ideas from my duplicate bug:

1. It should be possible to quickly mark a task as done without opening main (or task) window. The menu layout could be as this:

Main window
-- (separator)
Create new task
--
v Task 1
v Task 2
...
v Task 10

That way the GUI would be less cluttered and user could quickly mark task as done and go to the next one, maintaining her workflow.

2. When main window isn't shown, user doesn't see the count of active task. There could be possibility to display that number as an applet icon. I imagine having images (scalable svgs for panels with increased height?) with numbers from 1 to 30 that could be used for it. That way user should be more focused on the tasks left :)