tasks widget hacking

[Alain Boyer]

Hello,

After cleaning up the tasks dataengine (i know it is not really used in 
the applet..), I'd also like to help out. I looked at the tasks applet 
code a while back and indeed it is a bit scary.

However, school is busy and I can't really promise anything. If there 
are some "simpler" things to do, I may find the time to pitch in a little.

Alain.


Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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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