Re: [Planner Dev] Some bugs/RFE

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Santiago Erquicia wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> 1- In the Gantt Chart I cannot specify durations in months, only days.

You can use a few units by using a suffix, d, w, h works. We have been 
talking on and off about how to solve this nicely. I don't think we have 
a bug report in bugzilla though.

> 2- If I choose that a task has a fixed duration, I cannot specify the
> finish date in the Task View.  I just can specify the work.  Shouldn't
> we have a Duration column in this view and allow to change it's value if
> the task has a fixed duration and don't allow to change the work?

Yes, I think having a duration column there would be a good idea.

> 3- There isn't any way, at least that I could find, to specify in the
> project or Planner itself if tasks are going to be work or duration
> driven.  If there were, what would be better in the Gantt Chart, show
> the work or duration column?

I'm not sure. If we had more space, we could show both and have to 
correct one be editable...

> 4. While I'm changing the finish date of a task in the Gantt Chart, it
> would be good if when I reach the right limit of the screen that it
> scroll automatically.  Now I need to unclick it, scroll a little, move
> the final date again.  This is specially a problem when you cannot
> insert anything different than dates.

Yes, agreed.

> 5. The new project starts at the current day by default.  When I change
> the project starting date to a future date and click in some other place
> I can see how the Task View is updated.  As soon as I click the close
> button, it goes back to the previous date of the one that I selected.

I can't reproduce this in HEAD.

> 6. If I set a task as fixed duration, shouldn't it gray out the box of
> the necessary work to accomplish it?  I mean, shouldn't it happen the
> opposite as what happens when it is work driven?

Well, the way we handle fixed duration is by changing the assignments. 
That is, if a task has fixed duration and you change the work or 
duration, the resource assignment is tweaked to adjust to the new 
workload/duration.

> 7. There should be a task edit button or resource button on the toolbar,
> depending the view.  This is the most common action to perform in those
> views.

Hm, would probably be a good idea.

> 8. When editing the relationships between tasks there is no clear
> indication of the unit of time used for lag.

We have a bug report for this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132357

> 9. If you enter a task in the Gantt Chart where its name is longer than
> the current Name column, it automatically resizes it.  Shouldn't it be
> the opposite?  I don't want to be changing every time I add a new task
> the separator between the table and the graph to see the Work column.

I'm pretty much waiting for GTK+ 2.6 since it's trivial to fix with that 
version. We could add some kind of workaround for now though, that 
ellipsizes the text if it's too wide. It's probably a good idea.

> This is what I have founded until now.  If you think this is worth to
> put into bugzilla, please let me know which ones.

Thanks, lots of good feedback. Feel free to add them to bugzilla :)

/Richard

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