Hi Frank, -- Message from Frank Niessink (29.12.2009 19:57) > > > 2009/12/29 Michael Jaeger <[email protected] > <mailto:michael.jaeger%40in-flux.de>>: > > Well, it would probably be good idea to show something like a "bubble" > > on starting and stopping the stopwatch which only exists for a couple of > > seconds and which allows the user to edit the description on clicking on > > the bubble (on linux this is called desktop notification). > > You mean something like the Outlook notification for new mail? > Yes, something like this, just an idea...
> > What do you think of this? The bubble could probably be enhanced with > > the hint that, e.g., holding the CONTROL-Key while klicking on the task > > to start/stop automatically opens the description dialog or something > > like that. > > That's a good idea: that way no configurable option is needed. This > would even work without the notification: Come to think of it, Task > Coach already supports this more or less: right-click a task and then > hit "New effort...", fill in the description and hit OK... Isn't that > 80% of the solution? > That is nearly perfect -- if it would also work from the trayicon when choosing "start stopwatch". My proposition: when choosing "Start Stopwatch" from the context menu and then doing a richt-click on a task (or a click with a modifier key), then the "New effort..."-window shows up. Best, Michael.
