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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Karm patch
From:       "Pradeepto Bhattacharya" <pradeeptob () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-05-18 18:42:21
Message-ID: 4f9d244d0605181130m1a11bbffx149d5496dfe5c31b () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi,

> >
> >       A solution that was thought of was that to "not" allow the user
> > to start timer for a top level task that had subtasks running. Another
> > thing that Till suggested to me on irc was that it would be nice that
> > if we don't disable top-level tasks from running at all, since he told
> > there can be situations where the just "placeholder" needs to be timed
> > instead of the sub-tasks. Instead disable them from running only if
> > one of its sub-tasks is already running.
>
> Yes, as long as I am looking for which subtask to do, I have the parent
> task timing.

          I lost you on that, sorry. Could you explain, please? Thanks.

> >
> >       This also called for a simple "side effect" case. What would
> > happen if the user would run a top-level task first and the try to run
> > the sub-task? That called for automatic stopping of top-level task
> > when the sub-task was started.
>
> For normal users, this is more confusing than before. You can switch on
> "Unitasking" (only one timer at a time) and get rid of all these problems.
> Yes, then you do not have the possibility to time two subtasks. But let's
> avoid confusion.

           Hmmm, oh noes, "limiting functionality" really doesnot
sound good. Unitasking is surely not good, imho. I am sure many users
do a lot more than one tasks at a time. I will admit that I am not
much of "user" of Karm so I can't really comment on user-experience .
But I have been studying it a off-late to understand how it works and
hence trying out various things that can be possibly don with it.

           And my opinion on "confusing the user" is that user will
mostly need to know about this only once or something. And once its
clarified its all taken care of. Plus it can always be mentioned in
docs, tooltips and whatis thingie that user cannot time top task and
subtask at the same time. Or perhaps a KMessageBox can be used to warn
the user if he/she tries to do so telling why it works that way.

           Suggestions please.

          Cheers!

Pradeepto
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