Appindicator: add tag colors and option to choose a set of tags to show

[Feathertail]

Binary package hint: gtg

CONTEXT

GTG lets you sort tasks by tag, and its main window view color-codes tasks by what tag they have.

PROBLEM

GTG's panel applet list (when it is functioning; see bug 548836 ) does not color-code tasks. When you have a large number of tasks listed, this can become a problem.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

GTG's panel applet list will have a colored icon next to each task, indicating its tag, at the very least.

It might be nice if there was a way to only have certain tasks listed in the panel applet, though. Sort of an "immediate to-do" kind of thing which would make it more useful when you're also using it as a "bug database" for your life.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gtg 0.2.4-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 9 16:21:24 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gtg

[Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)]

Thanks for the report. FYI, the tasks listed in the applet are the same listed in the "workview". If you don't want something there, just set the "start date" in the future.

[Feathertail (feathertail-deactivatedaccount)]

That only works if something has a definite time to start, though. Most of my items have an indefinite starting time, and are logged anyway just so I'll know that I'm planning to do them at some point.

I know mine may not be the ideal use-case scenario ... but it's really easy to log new items in GTG as of right now, and its tags and things provide neat ways to organize them in the main view. But the more items you have, the more useless the panel applet becomes.

[Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)]

Ok, we can add an option to select only some tags to show in the panel applet.

As for organizing, I usually postpone the start date for anything that I can't or won't be doing today. Postponed stuff will naturally pop up again after some days.