To-Do List Plugin

[Milian Wolff]

On Friday, 2. October 2009 13:37:48 Aviv wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm Aviv and I'm new to KDevelop development.
> 
> To start understanding how things work, I developed the attached plugin,
> which adds a to-list for each project, and saves the changes in the
> project file.
> 
> I'd appreciate your feedbacks!

So, finally got around to test it.

1) You CMakeLists.txt needs the following stuff prepended so you can properly 
build it from outside kdevplatform:

project(todolist)

find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)

find_package(KDevPlatform REQUIRED)

include_directories(
    ${KDEVPLATFORM_INCLUDE_DIR}
    ${KDE4_INCLUDES}
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
)

add_definitions( -DKDE_DEFAULT_DEBUG_AREA=9532 )
...

The project is optional though afaik good practice.

2) Remove the value from exec= in your .desktop file, setting it to blablub is 
just not correct (though doesn't hurt either) ;-)

3) The interface can need a bit of work:
- make the list not too wide, I have a horiz. scroll bar
- when selecting an entry and hitting DEL I'd expect the entry to get deleted, 
not only it's contents
- context menu (new/delete/set status...)
- filter by status, maybe even search in todo?
- toggling the status by clicking is imo not so nice, maybe just show a little 
tooltip with all available stati and let the user select one
- I cannot set the status of the new entry
- new entry always at the top? or with context menu / button so I don't have 
to scroll to bottom for a new entry
- sort by status / severity?

4) Some advanced features I'd personally like to see:
- show TODO from inside the source (we had that already at some point, didn't 
we?), maybe create some kind of framework, similar to the problem reporter: 
That way we can add TODO's from inside the language plugin (since that one 
already parses the files and can report TODOs when it comes across e.g. 
#warning or ///TODO stuff). Though maybe we can/should just use the problem 
reporter for this, and let the TODO stuff be user-input only? dunno
- let me click URLs in the TODO, that way I can e.g. insert bug-urls, or 
pastebins
- let me insert newlines for longer TODOs

But a good start for now :) Thanks, welcome to KDevelop'ing!
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de