tasks widget hacking

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Alexis Ménard wrote:
> And the layout is recreated again and again, i am sure we can find a
> solution for that.

time ago i tried to remove that thing, it resulted in empty holes still sized 
as there were items in it, so then tried with a simple qt program and the 
problem wasn't there, so it must be a problem somewhere in layoutwidget.cpp, 
but it's pretty complex, really wasn't able to track it down

> 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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