Re: Module proposal: Project Hamster for GNOME 2.24

[Toms <toms baugis gmail com>]

Hamster is on the same line with gtimelog, just maybe a little more
sophisticated. It remembers names of previously entered tasks, and can
show more in-depth statistics, which make time tracking much more fun.

Having plaintext files for data storage either makes you to parse data
on every single request and data retrieval (and hope that the records
always are datetime ordered), or keep the whole list in memory. Not
sure, how exactly memory management is done in sqlite, i would still
like to rely on more experienced developers in that field.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Mathias Hasselmann
<mathias hasselmann gmx de> wrote:
> Toms,
>
>  Hamster looks really nice. Do you know gtimelog[1].
>  IMHO a quite primitive tool UI-wise, but really convenient to use.
>  How does Hamster compare to gtimelog?
>
>  Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 13:25 +0100 schrieb Ross Burton:
>
> > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:16 +0100, Toms wrote:
>  > > Facts are stored in private sqlite database (consisting of 6 or so
>  > > tables) under .gnome2/hamster-applet/
>  >
>  > So, if you read To Do list items from EDS, why not store the durations
>  > in EDS as well?
>
>  Knowing that gtimelog does it job pretty well by using simple plain-text
>  files for tasks and durations, I wonder if Hamster's backend isn't
>  slightly over-designed. The text files gtimelog uses to record actions
>  look like this:
>
>         2008-04-16  9:25: arrived
>         2008-04-16  9:47: first task - details about what was done
>         2008-04-16 11:32: first task - something diffferent
>         2008-04-16 12:15: lunch **
>
>  Entries ending with '**' indicate idle time.
>
>  The task files of gtimelog look like this:
>
>         Category1:Task1
>         Category1:Task2
>         Category2:Task3
>
>
>  Ciao,
>  Mathias
>
>  [1] http://mg.pov.lt/gtimelog/
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