Comment 6 for bug 686062

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rbertran (rbertran) wrote : Re: hamster-applet should have appindicator support

I would like to say that the design suggested by Jamie looks well for me. Someone could say that one more click is needed to change the current tracking task, but we already have a configurable keyboard shortcut to view the 'hamster drop down window' quickly and change current task . Another could say that the current task is not displayed all time, but hamster already provides you a mechanism to notify you every X minutes the task your are tracking. So, the integration into the clock makes a lot of sense. And there is another reason for such integration, hamster can automatically gather tasks from evolution, which is also integrated in the clock (it show future events, and allows to add new events).

Thinking on that, what if in the clock instead of showing only future events of evolution, it also shows the task list of evolution (sorted by priority or by deadline...) . Then, when you click one of such tasks, it sets hamster to track it. I will be a very fast way of tracking time while still know what to do. Personally, what I do very often is to open the clock and see if I have events scheduled. If the task list is also integrated, I will also see quickly my task list (TODO list). The same mechanism can also used with other task-list managers such as GTG (Getting Things GNOME) .

Thanks,
Salut!