[kplato] Re: State of KPlato?

[Dag Andersen]

On Tirsdag 26 oktober 2004 21:54, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What is the current state of KPlato? Is it desired to improve it?
Well, I think so :)
> .... Hmm.. just skimmed through the KPlato docs... it seems some
> people have already thought about what should be implemented, how
> far is it?
In short, you can currently do:
- Define tasks (incl. summarytasks, milestones), resources, calendars.
- Assign calendars to resources.
- Allocate resources to tasks.
- Link tasks.
- Have the project calculated.
- Presentation mainly in ganttchart using KDGantt.
  There is also a network diagram and a resourceview,
  but they are rudimentary and mostly for testing.

Doesn't sound to bad, eh?
Well, what's not so good, missing?
- The dialogs are not good (understatement).
- Command history only partially implemented.
- There are some holes in the calculation.
- Calendar stuff not complete.
- No resource leveling.
- more...

I'm currently working on link handling in KDGantt, mainly implementing
linktypes (FinishStart, FinishFinish, StartStart). When that's done 
(today, I hope), I'm planning:
- Implement task linking from KDGantt in kplato. (most code finished)
- Have a look at the project calculations again.
- Go through the dialogs and see if I can patch up the worst things.
- Implement missing command history.
- hmmmm
>
> And what about ... for example Mr. Project?
Don't know how far they have come. No room to run gnome on my 
computer :(
(By the way, there is also TaskJuggler)
>
> Any thoughts on the subject?
The dialog approach to data entering is not always optimal. I've been 
thinking of implementing most of the dialog stuff in a 'structured 
editor' based on QListView. I've found that to be (almost) 
impossible, so personally I decided to postpone that until Qt4, which 
AFAICS offers more flexibility in this respect. 
> Raphael

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Mvh,
Dag Andersen