[Kde-pim] Time management improvement in KOrganizer as GsOC 2011 development

[Bartłomiej Żogała]

Hi

Below is a listof casesthatbothermein personin KOrganizer and overwhichI 
would liketo work as Google Summer of Code this year.
This is only a list of free thoughts. I don't know if any functionality 
was already or is currently developed by somebody or if any constraints 
would block particular form of realisation.

I have experience with KDE only as user but developed 2 years with Qt
(PyQt bindings) . Also have experience with non GUI but OOP C++ programming.

I'm open for suggestions and searching for GsOC Mentor.

1. Priority management

Ten  level task priorities are hard to maintain by user, better solution 
would be automatically
choosing numerical priority by set of user decisions.
E.g. relative priorities,  choosing which to-do is more important than 
other. Or implementation
by means of Eisenhower Method(selecting task  by critical importance and 
critical deadline.) or POSEC. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_Method

Also moving child task to parent  by drag and drop in current implementation
(especially while running in low resolution)
takes much time, need to think this problem over

sorted list by priority with moving up/down, top/bottom
2,
improving subcategories in to-do list - When we have to-do with 
subto-dos in to-dos Work University
in calendar view we nee to display only those child to-dos.

3, Allow quick adding new to-do's and events by some dropbox, while 
planning all once a day/week

4. Increase usability e.g changing event hour  by one click on down 
arrow of SpinBox to move task forward
15min would be faster than choosing appropriate hour from standard list. 
Also add in place edit possibility
wherever possible.
Optionally connect some to-dos with KMail threads or persons

5. Connect To-dos and events functionality or easy convert between them 
by drag&drop
we might want to specify the task description first and once a week 
assign hours in week to them.
In current implementation we can only drag to-do as a whole day activity.

6. Make reminders less intrusive, while we're doing more important 
things on computer. Sometimes we would just
get rid of the window of the screen and decide later if it need to be 
suspended or dismiss. I think better than dialog would be KDE 
notification - reminders could show once and  stay there minimized.

Regards,
Bart

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