tasks widget hacking

[Alexis Ménard]

And the layout is recreated again and again, i am sure we can find a
solution for that.

2008/12/2 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> hi...
>
> i'd like to have a tasks widget hacking day.
>
> the reason for this i that the code is something of a mess internally and
> imho
> it's unmaintainable in its current state. i say this because changing
> little
> things in one place often create rather unexpected results; there's a good
> amount of unreachable code; there's what looks to be some pretty obvious
> memory leaks (e.g. Tasks::m_groupTaskItems never seems to have items
> removed
> from it!); Tasks does bookkeeping, but for only some things, and this
> bookkeeping is controlled from Tasks, LayoutWidget *and* TaskGroupItem!
>
> there are bugs that sometimes results in "holes" showing up in the layout,
> grouping not working reliably on start up and more.
>
> if we ship with it like this, we will hate ourselves later.
>
> unfortunately, i'm not particularly sure what all the reasons and rationals
> are for some of the code decisions.
>
> so if you have been working on the tasks widget in the last month or two,
> please respond in this thread with when would be a good time and day for
> you
> so we can get together on irc and sort this thing out. =)
>
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