given I haven’t worked on it in years.

Channel: #gmpc

svn co https://gtodo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gtodo gtodo2

Ui wise, gtodo is getting pretty close to a good usable point. The code however needs some cleanup, I hope to have some time for this next week, and release a first pre-release.

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So here is a test-release of gtodo2.

Wat needs to be done:

• A way to select backend. Without making stuff complex.
• Notification system
• Backup system
• Evolution backend.
• Printing+(html) export function.
• more

(To create/open a flat file backend, make a directory where you want the files located. Go to file->new select directory, name but leave filename empty.)

What it can do:

• Open multiple todo lists.
• Todo’s have a summary, comment, end-date, end-time, progress, linked files and priority.
• Show todo’s (in all lists) that are allready due, due today and this week.

Another nice thing, the flat file backend is made to be synced between pc’s using unison. I am using this for a few month now, and is working very very well.

You can get it here

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It took surprisingly little work, I had to add one C file (GTodoFlatFileProvider.c) , and include it in a list of ‘providers’.

It should support everything the other provider does.  But I cannot give guarantees.

It’s available in svn for people wanted to try it out. There isn’t yet a nice gui to add a ‘flatfilebackend’ task list, but if you do File->New, fill in the info but leave filename empty it should create a flatfilebackend list.

It will create subdirectories for categories, and files (with numbers as filename) as tasks, these files have a simple ini style format (using g_key_file_ functions).

I did some small test, and unison seems to be syncing it fine.

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p.s. it’s completely gnome_vfs based, so if you open ~/.gtodo/list2 you should be able to enter any gnome-vfs allowed uri. so you can place it on ssh/ftp. But this is untested.

But that doesn’t solve my everlasting need for something to store my todo’s.

While gtodo and gtodo2 both work ok enough todo this job, they both lack one important thing: Syncing. (actually I wrote a small tool for gtodo1 that does this.. but it’s not how I want it )
I work on several different pc’s (desktop, laptop, mac mini etc)  and from time to time with different installations on them. I use the magnificent tool unison to sync my Documents directories, and it would be more then awesome to have it sync my todo’s too.

But (yes there always is one) a todo  list has a nasty effect, it is  often edited. Before/after I work on a document I sync my tree, but for the todo list I don’t do that all the time.

So this will go wrong:

PC A:  Add todo item A

PC B: Edit todo item C

PC A: Edit todo item A

now unison can’t merge  this.. so I either get a file with up2date C and withouth A or visa versa.

How to solve this? easy! Make every todo item a separate file. Then A gets added and C is  updated.
If I find some time, I should write a ‘flat file’ backend for gtodo2. There is some pending changes in this part of gtodo2 (written by eleusis) so I will have to wait until those are merged…

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