tasks widget hacking

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi...
>
> i'd like to have a tasks widget hacking day.

usually cet evenings i'm around
i just touched some parts, so i'm not really familiar with the whole thing, 
but we can try

> 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. =)