Release 1.4.1 - September 14, 2014
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Increase taskbar icon size on Linux to avoid dead places. (SF#1536)
- Display time spent in decimal format in task viewer if the option is set.
(SF#1534)
- Fix todo.txt export when dates have a year < 1900 (SF#1541)
- Avoid locking in Dropbox folder on Windows. (SF#1540)
- Backup and save would fail if the path to the user's home contained a non-
ASCII character (SF#1547, SF#1546)
- Fix stop effort tooltip. (SF#1537)
Release 1.4.0 - July 3, 2014
This is a major feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix tooltips on notes. (SF#1525)
- Fix sort order indication in viewer columns. (SF#1527)
- Don't crash at startup if the locale is not supported. (SF#1528)
Features added:
- A task file can now be open by several instances of Task Coach, allowing
several users to work on the same file.
(http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-
mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/288999-enable-multi-user-task-management)
- Backups are now always enabled.
Release 1.3.41 - June 22, 2014
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix a crash at startup on Linux when using some window managers that don't
set the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable.
- Bring back effort tooltips.
- Fix positionning of baloon tips when moving the window from one display to
another. (SF#1522)
- Fix for non-ASCII e-mail subjects without encoding specification (SF#1523)
Feature added:
- Bring back the option to disable tooltips.
Release 1.3.40 - May 25, 2014
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Remove a debug trace in DnD code.
- "Effort for one task" becomes "Effort for selected task(s)" (SF#1474,
SF#1520)
- Fix an occasional "AlreadyCalledError" when iPhone sync is enabled.
Feature added:
- Add an "add note to selected task" button in the task toolbar; patch from
Manab Chetia
Release 1.3.39 - May 18, 2014
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Some tabs would come up blank when the editor was in multi-notebook mode.
(SF#1512)
- In hierarchical calendar, when hitting Ctrl-A or Shift-clicking a parent
task, only select visible tasks.
- Fix a number of SyncML-related bugs.
- Fix the "cannot create a file that exists" problem when saving. (SF#1517)
- Fix an error introduced in 1.3.38 related to tips. (SF#1518)
- Hopefully fix a session-related bug on Windows (SF#1516)
Features added:
- SyncML: add support for Horde-based servers.
- All sort criterion are now persisted between sessions.
(http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-
mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/289031-better-control-over-task-order)
Release 1.3.38 - April 21, 2014
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Code signature would become invalid on OSX after the first run. (SF#1506)
- Task Coach wouldn't actually stop with older versions of Twisted (<11).
(SF#1505)
- Fix Todo.txt export (SF#1274)
- Performance improvements.
- In some circumstances, balloon tips would not close.
- Locking would fail on SSHFS (SF#1509)
- Fix CSV export for some setups. (SF#1510)
Features added:
- Always use "/" as path separator in relative attachment file names.
(https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/admin/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-
linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/5721924-use-slash-instead-backslash-on-
attachment-file-pat)
- New hierarchical calendar viewer.
- Efforts and notes are always enabled.
- Display categories in tooltip.
(https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/admin/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-
linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/5727692-tooltips-for-grid-cells-with-
too-long-contents-to)
- The tooltip is now always enabled.
- Manual reordering of tasks, categories and notes.
(http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-
mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/289031-better-control-over-task-order)
Dependency changed:
- Minimal Twisted version is now 10.0.
Release 1.3.37 - March 29, 2014
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix a crash at startup on Lucid. (SF#1496)
- Behave like regular OS X apps with regards to minimization and foreground
behavior. (SF#1500)
- Fix idle time notification. (SF#1503)
Features added:
- Add an option to render efforts in decimal (patch from Tom Monaco).
(https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/admin/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-
linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/739042-allow-display-of-effort-in-
decimal-dd-dd-as-wel)
- Improved import/export of Todo.txt
- Custom attributes for mailing tasks/categories/etc
(https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/admin/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-
linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/5342642-embeded-command-capability)
Dependency changed:
- Task Coach now depends on Twisted.
Release 1.3.36 - February 16, 2014
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Prerequisites modification would not work. (SF#1480, SF#1486, SF#1495)
- LC_TIME would not be honored if set independently (SF#1483)
- Disable translations that are not at least 90%% complete.
- Do something a little more intuitive when editing efforts in aggregated
mode. (SF#1485)
- Fix a resource leak on Windows. (SF#1488)
- Fix a crash on Mint when synchronizing with an iPhone if the password is not
set. (SF#1487)
- Show and bring minimized window to front on simple click in the dock (OS X)
(SF#1490)
- Disable dock icon ticking on Mavericks. (SF#1489)
- Fix line ending problem when importing from CSV on Mac/Linux (SF#1493)
- Delete .txt files as well when overwriting a task file. (SF#1274)
Release 1.3.35 - January 4, 2014
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- The task editor would not open if the user's date format didn't include the
year.
- Unsetting an exclusive category or its parent would not work. (SF#1475)
- Remove file:// URL scheme from filenames dropped from Nautilus.
- When exporting tasks to HTML or CSV, sort notes alphabetically. (SF#1477)
- Sending a task by e-mail would not work on XFCE 4.10.
- Fix AttributeError problem (SF#1479)
Release 1.3.34 - November 24, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Silence the AttributeError problem in PyPubSub. (SF#1456)
- Fix some problems when saving the task file to a Dropbox folder.
- Performance improvement when reading the task file.
- Split date and time when exporting efforts to CSV. (SF#1472)
Release 1.3.33 - October 13, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix budget entry. (SF#1458)
- The search controls would not remember the previous search string on launch,
but the view would be filtered anyway.
- Fix date picker on locales that have non-ASCII month/day abbreviations.
(SF#1463)
- Fix position of text in subject entry on Windows. (SF#1464)
- When automatic import and export to ToDo.txt is enabled, one could not
delete tasks or change some task dates (SF#1446)
Release 1.3.32 - August 28, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't prevent shutdown on Windows if the minimize on close option is set.
- Prevent a PyGTK warning on recent Linux distributions. (SF#1435)
- Fix main toolbar shrinking when resizing a viewer. (SF#1431)
- Improve performance when tracking effort. (SF#1442)
- Prevent TypeError in date selection widget. (SF#1445)
- Fix initial tab when creating new items
- Fix undo/redo in text controls on OS X. (SF#1436)
- Fix loss of description edits when closing/quitting while editors are still
open. (SF#1437)
- Fix strange Escape behavior on multiple open editors on OS X. (SF#1438)
- Fix German translation. (SF#1448)
- "New note with selected categories" would create a new category. (SF#1447)
- Fix search issue when editing the toolbar. (SF#1449)
- Fix note creation in editor windows. (SF#1451)
- Fix opening preferences dialog when the end of work day is set to 24.
Release 1.3.31 - July 29, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix crash at startup on Ubuntu 13 if python-apscheduler is installed.
(SF#1428)
- Use the "Suggests" mechanism instead of "Recommends" for the Debian package
(python-kde4). (SF#1430)
- Handle short date formats with weekday
- When adding a viewer, the main toolbar would shrink. (SF#1431)
- Fix an error when the user types a numeric value in the AM/PM field of the
date/time picker. (SF#1425)
- Don't open floating viewers on the top-left corner of the screen (SF#1432,
SF#1349)
- Add a hint that the task file needs to be saved in the main window title.
(SF#1434)
Release 1.3.30 - July 7, 2013
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Working day start hour would be reset to 0 every time preferences are
opened. (SF#1418)
- Fix the ICC warning with recent versions of libpng. (SF#1422)
- Fix path to log file. (SF#1350)
- Total duration of efforts is the sum of rounded durations, not the rounded
sum of durations. (SF#1426)
Feature added:
- Display effort statistics in the status bar (patch from Ivan Romanov).
(https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/admin/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-
linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/606269-section-in-status-bar-for-
calculated-information-a)
Dependencies changed:
- The minimal version of Python is back to 2.6.
- On Linux, Task Coach does not depend on KDE any more, but it is recommended.
Release 1.3.29 - April 14, 2013
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix password entry on Windows. (SF#1410)
- Fix category filter menu on Windows 7 (SF#1281)
Feature added:
- Display a few days of previous and next month in the calendar popup.
Release 1.3.28 - March 24, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix a console warning on Ubuntu 64 bits. (SF#1393)
- Fix task selection through keyboard in effort editor (MS Windows and GTK).
(SF#1400)
- Fix editing of effort start in the effort dialog. (SF#1399)
- Fix timezone-related display bug that would prevent the task editor from
opening on OS X. (SF#1395)
- Use presets for tasks created through mail DnD. (SF#1403)
- Fix loading of categories for notes belonging to a subtask, and other such
imbrications. (SF#1404)
- Fix preferences opening when end of work day is set to 24. (SF#1394)
Release 1.3.27 - March 10, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Follow system preferences to format dates (instead of just times). (SF#1386)
- Fix date rendering on some versions of OSX. (SF#1391)
Release 1.3.26 - March 6, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Exporting efforts in CSV with the 'Period' column and date/time splitting
would not work. (SF#1387)
- Task Coach would not launch on OS X 10.6 and later. (SF#1388, SF#1390)
Release 1.3.25 - March 5, 2013
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix fonts in calendar viewer. (SF#1370)
- Fix cutting attachments.
- Fix focus on category viewer in task editor. (SF#1382)
- Fix keyboard navigation in the editor's tabs. (SF#1216)
- Make the effort stop menu a bit more contextual. (SF#1381)
- Fix effort stop button interaction with undo. (SF#1381)
- Fix flickering on Windows 7 when Aero is enabled. (SF#1384)
- Fix opening of the task editor and preferences on some locales. (SF#1360)
- Sorting by modification or creation date/time didn't work. (SF#1380)
- Fix checkbox focus hint on Windows (in the date picker). (SF#1372)
- Use system settings for date and time formatting on OSX.
- Use system settings for date and time formatting on KDE4. (SF#1386)
- Save templates to program directory for Task Coach Portable.
Features added:
- Getting the subject from Mail.app on drag and drop is now optional (takes
too long).
- Focus subject field when opening the task editor on Linux. This is
configurable. (SF#1263)
Release 1.3.24 - February 17, 2013
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Clicking in the hour choice popup in the date/time picker would select the
wrong value. (SF#1377)
- Task Coach now follows the XDG specification for configuration and data
(template) files on Linux. (SF#367)
- Fix menu "Stop tracking multiple tasks" menu (SF#1366)
- Fix focus issue in date picker. (SF#1368)
- Fix discrepancy in due date time precision (SF#1253)
- Fix multiple effort notices when idle. (SF#1365)
- Fix font issue with calendar viewer. (SF#1370)
- Fix "NoneType object is not callable" problem. (SF#1371)
- Prevent reminder dialogs and editors from stealing focus. (SF#956)
- Add a visual hint that the checkbox has focus in the date picker. (SF#1372)
- Fix opening of editor dialog on some locales (SF#1360, SF#1375)
- Fix idle notifications. (SF#1365)
- Sort case insensitive in the toggle category menu. (SF#1369)
- Fix the N shortcut in datetime picker. (SF#1378)
Features added:
- The "notes" and "attachments" columns can now be exported to HTML and CSV.
- Store the IMAP passwords in the user's keychain.
- The default icon for completed tasks is now the green checkmark.
Release 1.3.23 - February 7, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Some navigation shortcuts in the date/time picker would not work on Windows
or Linux. (SF#1340)
- Typing would not do anything on Windows in the date/time picker if the
calendar is shown. (SF#1340)
- The calendar popup from the date/time picker would not show all days.
(SF#1340)
- Task Coach would fail to start when the user had selected an empty bitmap
for one of the task statuses.
- Non-ASCII characters would display wrong in the calendar popup on OS X.
- Start/end of day choice in preferences now follow the user's format
preferences. (SF#1331)
- Resizing the toolbar would truncate it. (SF#1341)
- Try to fetch Mail.app message subject. (SF#1342, SF#1003)
- Don't let the user pick columns that cannot be exported
- When cancelling application shutdown, the window would close nonetheless.
(SF#1346)
- The calendar popup in the date picker would not use the first week day
setting. (SF#1348)
- Disable hide all filters when in tree mode and the only filter is "hide
composite tasks". (SF#1351)
- The task editor would not open on Windows if the user's short date format
used abbreviated or full month name. (SF#1338)
- Increase timer value for the date picker. (SF#1354)
- Backspace/delete removes the last digit in the date picker. (SF#1354)
- Fix Shift-S and Shift-E shortcuts in date picker on Linux. (SF#1358)
- Fix overlay in toolbar icons. (SF#1356)
- Use system default GUI font in date picker. (SF#1361)
- Add shortcuts for AM/PM in date picker. (SF#1362)
- Escape now dismisses calendar popup in date picker. (SF#1362)
- Fix crash when a task status icon has been set to "No icon". (SF#1364)
- Fix refreshing of spent time in effort viewer (SF#1363)
Features added:
- Add a modification date attribute to tasks, notes, attachments, and
categories. (http://uservoice.com/a/-2HX-)
- Hitting Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on OS X) while the date or time picker has focus
will try to interpret the clipboard's content. Ctrl+C stores the current
value in the clipboard. (SF#1352)
Dependency changed:
- Task Coach now needs Python 2.7.
Release 1.3.22 - January 2, 2013
This is a bugfix release.
Bug fixed:
- The task editor would not open after some time on Windows and OS X.
(SF#1338)
Release 1.3.21 - January 1, 2013
This is a mixed feature and bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Changing the percentage complete would not cause the calendar viewer to
refresh.
- On Mac OS X, clicking the period column in effort viewers to change the
sort order didn't work.
- Adapt font size to available space in calendar view. (SF#1309)
- Using Shift+Enter key on the number keypad would not work on Mac OS X nor
Linux. (SF#1285)
- Search defaults to simple substring matching. (SF#1286)
- Growl notifications didn't work with Growl 2.0. (SF#1324)
- Fix another encoding problem on some locales (Windows). (SF#1310, SF#1321)
- Performance improvement in the edit dialogs. (SF#991)
- Fix icon size in Unity. (SF#1329)
- Fix docking of floating viewers on Windows.
- When toggling the category of multiple items, not all of which are in the
selected category, don't remove the items from the category that already
belonged to that category. (SF#1271)
- Toolbar icons to show/hide tasks according to status now respect appearance
settings, and are overlayed with a red cross. (SF#1104, SF#1323)
- New date/time picker should fix most existing problems with the old one.
(SF#702, SF#1089, SF#1212, SF#1266, SF#1233)
- Fix wording for task statuses. (SF#1333)
Features added:
- New, hopefully more intuitive date/time control.
- Display dates in human-readable form in viewers (today, yesterday,
tomorrow).
- Startup and shutdown performance improvements.
- Autosave is now on by default.
- Support for Growl on Windows.
- Toolbars are now customizable.
- Add a creation date attribute to tasks, notes, attachments, and categories.
(http://uservoice.com/a/-2HX-)
- Shift+Click on a filter button in the toolbar shows only the corresponding
task status
Release 1.3.20 - October 21, 2012
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix an encoding problem on Windows non-European locales (SF#1306)
- On Linux, Ctrl-Z in a text control would always remove the whole contents of
the text control instead of undoing the recent changes. (SF#1267)
- When adding a new item, always start the edit dialog with the description
tab raised and focus on the item subject. (SF#1263)
- Editing templates would not work.
- The effort dialog wouldn't function properly when the time format contained
dots, like in Italian. (SF#1307)
- Moving efforts between tasks would sometimes trigger an exception,
resulting in lost efforts. (SF#1203)
- When there are multiple reminders and speech is on, don't say all the
reminders simultaneously, but one at a time. (SF#1313)
Release 1.3.19 - October 7, 2012
This is a mixed feature and bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Format times in the calendar view according to the user's preferences.
(SF#3563441)
- Do not automatically give focus to the subject field in the task editor on
Linux (it overwrites the X clipboard). (SF#3539452)
- After loading a task file, tasks would not become due soon on time.
(SF#3562925)
- On OS X, the first entry in an editor page would not be automatically
selected. (SF#3562922)
- On Linux, drag and drop of email messages from Evolution didn't work.
(SF#3562808)
- With autosaving on, Task Coach would actually save too often. (SF#3562836)
- On Ubuntu, a file was missing causing Task Coach not to start. (SF#3562695)
- On Ubuntu, the native text control doesn't support undo and redo, added a
home grown version. (SF#3563376)
- Don't silently adjust dates of parent and child tasks. See also the changed
feature below. (SF#3561465, SF#3564794)
- Remember whether the "make this snooze time the default snooze time for
future reminders" check box was checked in the reminder dialog. (SF#3567139)
- The task viewer would not refresh at midnight.
- On Windows with some locale settings, Task Coach would crash trying to
render dates. (SF#1306)
Features added:
- In addition to specifying a maximum number of recurrences, it is now also
possible to specify an end date for recurrence. If both an end date and a
maximum number of recurrences are specified, recurrence stops when the first
of both conditions is met.
- Put a link to our IndieGoGo campaign on the toolbar of the main window. The
link will disappear when the campaign is over.
Features changed:
- Task Coach no longer enforces that the dates of child tasks lie between the
dates of its parent task. Previously, if the start date of a child task
would be made earlier than the start date of its parent task, Task Coach
would silently make the start of the parent task equal to the start date of
the child task. The same for the due date: setting the due date of the
parent task earlier than the due date of a child task would silently change
the due date of the child tasks if their due date would otherwise become
later than the due date of the parent task. When viewing tasks in the task
tree viewer, collapsing a task with child tasks will show recursive dates
when relevant. This means that the planned start date column will show the
earliest start date of the task itself and all of its child tasks. If the
earliest start date is the start date of one of the child tasks, the date
will be shown between brackets. Likewise, the actual start date column will
show the earliest actual start date of the task and all of its child tasks.
The due date column and the completion date column will show the latest
date of the parent and child tasks combined. When sorting on a date
column, the recursive value is used for sorting. So when sorting ascending
by due date a parent task without due date but with a child task due today
will sort before a task that is due tomorrow. This change makes the date
behavior consistent with priorities and other attributes.
- New viewers will open floating so that is easier to put them in the position
you want. Hopefully this will also make it more obvious for new users that
viewers can be reordered any way they like since moving a floating viewer
will show the docking guides.
- Clicking outside an inplace editor now accepts the changes instead of
discarding them.
- On Windows, both left clicking and left double clicking the Task Coach icon
in the notification area (often called the system tray) will raise or
minimize the main window (in accordance with http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/windows/desktop/aa511448.aspx#interaction).
(http://uservoice.com/a/m3P6j)
Release 1.3.18 - August 28, 2012
This is a mixed feature and bugfix release.
Team change:
- We're happy to announce that Aaron Wolf joined the Task Coach team. Aaron is
already doing a great job scrutinizing the large number of feature requests
we have open on http://taskcoach.uservoice.com. In addition, he is helping
us testing Task Coach and ironing out as many bugs as we can, see the first
results below. Furthermore, he is planning to develop an in-app tutorial
for Task Coach so we're glad to have him on board. Welcome, Aaron!
Bugs fixed:
- Get rid of the infamous "AttributeError: __onDead" error (SF#3546400)
- Do not automatically give focus to the subject field in the task editor on
Linux (it overwrites the X clipboard). (SF#3539452)
- On Mac OS X, the window would shrink at each launch. Tested on 10.5, 10.7
and 10.8DP4.
- Do not singularize user-set icons. (SF#3539824)
- Disable spell checking on Mountain Lion because it makes Task Coach crash.
(SF#3554534)
- Fix opening URLs from the Help menu on KDE4. (SF#3542487)
- Fix the About dialog on Kubuntu. (SF#3542487)
- Reminders sometimes wouldn't fire. (SF#3554603)
- On Mac OS X, idle time notifications would not work. (SF#3554603)
- On Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and earlier, the system would ask the user
to allow Task coach use a port (firewall) or the keychain on every launch.
(SF#3556753)
- On Mac OS X, the search options menu wouldn't work. (SF#3558511)
- When the language is set to English/US, use 12 hour clock in task and
effort dialogs instead of 24 hour clock.
- Don't reset the edit dialog layout for editing single items after editing
multiple items at the same time. (SF#3559292)
- When changing the "Mark task completed when all children are
completed?"-setting in the "Progress" tab of the task edit dialog, Task
Coach would set the percentage complete slider in the "Progress" tab to the
recursive percentage complete while the slider is meant to only display and
change the percentage complete of the task itself. (SF#3559740)
- When a task with subtasks does not override the global setting for marking a
task completed when all of its subtasks are completed, actually use that
setting when displaying the percentage complete of the parent task in the
task viewer. (SF#3559740)
- The settings for the viewers in the edit dialogs (such as the visible
columns in the effort tab and the notes tab) wouldn't be consistently
applied to each edit dialog. (SF#3559057)
- On Mac OS X, the button in the effort edit dialog for dropping down the tree
of tasks didn't work. (SF#3560296)
- Make recurrence label in the task edit dialog clearer. (SF#3560420)
- Make the description of the "idle time notice" setting in the preferences
clearer. (SF#3555498)
- Make the description of the "minutes between suggested times" setting in the
preferences clearer. (SF#3556765)
- The combobox for selecting the snooze time in the reminder dialog was not
read only. This suggested that one could type in custom snooze times while
that is not supported (yet). (SF#3560416)
- The "Filter on all checked categories/Filter on any checked category" option
was only available via the toolbar of the category viewer. Due to the width
of the option, it could be difficult to access. The option is now also
available as menu item in the View->Filter menu. (SF#3554627)
- When the budget left is negative, the budget left field in the task edit
dialog would not show a minus sign. (SF#3554616)
- On Mac OS X, the tip of the day window would block the dialog for unlocking
a locked task file. (SF#3561499)
- When saving selected tasks, not only include the categories the selected
tasks belong to, but also the parent categories of the used categories, even
though they may not have been used themselves. (SF#3561159)
- When creating a new item, set focus to the subject field so that the
description tab is raised if needed. (SF#3561515)
- On Mac OS X, dropping of URLs without a protocol specification ('http:',
'https:', 'ftp:', etc.) would result in attachments that couldn't be opened.
(SF#3561889)
- On Linux, dropping of URLs didn't work. (SF#3561889)
- The order of tabs in edit dialogs wouldn't be restored correctly after it
had been changed by the user. (SF#3562239)
- Save size, position and maximization state of dialogs separately for single-
item and multi-item dialogs. (SF#3562239)
Features added:
- Increase font size in the calendar view's header. (SF#3558650)
- In the calendar view, unplanned dates are now cropped to the current day.
- Add support for Thunderbird IMAP accounts that use NTLM authentication
(typically Exchange accounts).
- When starting up, Task Coach checks for messages from the Task Coach
developers. This allows us to reach all users for e.g. notifications on
critical bugs or requests for support. Each message is displayed only once
and the display of messages can be turned off completely. This feature will
be used sparingly, of course.
- Added almost complete Belarusian translation thanks to Korney San.
- Allow for changing the font used in the description field of edit dialogs.
The font can be changed in the editor tab of the preferences dialog. Patch
supplied by Nicola Chiapolini.
Feature changed:
- When a task has no due date, instead of displaying "Infinite" for the time
left in the task viewer, Task Coach now displays blank space.
Release 1.3.17 - July 2, 2012
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Use the user-specified time format on Windows. (SF#3530080)
- In the effort viewer, when calculating total effort for tasks in a certain
period, one effort would be skipped. (SF#3537707)
- When tracking effort for one task, don't show "Stop tracking multiple tasks"
as the menu label for the "Stop tracking" menu item in the action menu.
(SF#3536577)
- On Windows, use a more recent Python27.dll to satisfy Secunia PSI.
(SF#3539139)
- Loading a big task file is now much faster.
- The calendar view would not react to changes to tasks. (SF#3539402)
Release 1.3.16 - June 16, 2012
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fix a crash during iPhone synchronization if a category associated with a
modified task has been deleted on the desktop.
- The stop/resume effort tracking button on the toolbar wasn't working
correctly. (SF#3529025)
- When tracking effort, the time spent in the effort viewer was not always
updated.
Release 1.3.15 - May 24, 2012
This is a mixed feature and bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- On Windows 7, when the language is English (US), render times in the task
viewer using AM/PM.
- On Mac OS X and Windows, don't crash when waking up from stand by.
(SF#3523648)
- Resetting task filters at midnight was not working properly.
- Faster opening of task files when there are many effort records.
Feature added:
- Better word wrapping in calendar view.
Release 1.3.14 - May 13, 2012
This is a mixed feature and bugfix release.
Bug fixed:
- Task Coach wouldn't start on Ubuntu 12.04. (SF#3522305)
Feature added:
- Added support for pipe as separator symbol when importing from CSV.
(http://uservoice.com/a/arHeO)
Release 1.3.13 - April 14, 2012
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Translations couldn't be changed. (SF#3516306)
- Exporting to CSV with dates and times to separate columns would fail if any
of the tasks had a date before 1900. (SF#3516964)
- Disable the checkbox for separate date and time columns in the CSV export
dialog when the user picks a viewer that doesn't contain tasks. (SF#3515241)
- Don't complain about a missing log handler in the log file on Windows.
(SF#3517705)
Release 1.3.12 - April 9, 2012
This is a mixed feature and bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- X session management is now disabled by default. (SF#3502180)
- The percentage of tasks completed, active, etc. in the task statistics
viewer (the pie chart) would be wrong when filtering categories.
- The category drop down menu for filtering on any or all categories didn't
have effect. (SF#3514880)
- Merging a file that would remove a subcategory linked to existing tasks or
notes would not work. (SF#3515503)
- Drag and drop was broken. (SF#3514209)
- On Windows, when emailing items, new lines in the description would
disappear. (SF#3514288)
- Properly shut down the internal scheduler before closing Task Coach to
prevent an exception. (SF#3514651)
- Changing the task appearance in the preference dialog didn't work unless no
tasks had been edited before changing the appearance. (SF#3514174)
- Marking a recurring task complete from a reminder could throw an exception.
(SF#3514174)
Feature added:
- The calendar view can now be printed as is. (SF#3503258)
Release 1.3.11 - March 31, 2012
This is a bugfix release.
Bug fixed:
- Task Coach wouldn't start due to a missing module. (SF#3513392)
Release 1.3.10 - March 30, 2012
This is a mixed feature and bugfix release.
Bug fixed:
- The statusbar counts of over due tasks, late tasks, etc. would include
deleted tasks. (SF#3501289)
Features added:
- Allow for importing reminder date/time when importing from a CSV file.
(http://uservoice.com/a/2xhV6)
- Allow for setting the first day of the week (either Sunday or Monday) in the
preferences dialog (features tab). (http://uservoice.com/a/81C1K)
Release 1.3.9 - March 8, 2012
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- The drop down menu for the option 'Schedule each next recurrence based on'
in the dates tab of the task edit dialog wasn't being enabled when the user
turned on the recurrence of a task. (SF#3496505)
- On Xubuntu, Task Coach would briefly show dialogs centered over the Task
Coach main window before showing them on their destined location.
(SF#3496271)
- When exporting to CSV with separate date and time columns, don't write
31/12/9999 for empty dates. (SF#3495429)
- On Linux, honor the LC_TIME setting. (SF#3495925)
- After reading a task file with a deleted task that had a subtask with
prerequisites, Task Coach would refuse to save the file. (SF#3496986)
Release 1.3.8 - February 25, 2012
This is a mixed feature and bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Show a warning dialog when running XFCE4 to highlight the session management
issues and tell the user about the option to disable it (SF#3482752)
- Display times with a 12 hour clock (AM/PM) when the language is set to
English (US).
- Don't change the selection when deleting or hiding items that are not
selected. When adding a new item, select it. When adding a new sub item,
also expand the parent item if necessary. (SF#3484930)
- When using the Norsk translation on Linux (both Nynorsk and Bokmal), Task
Coach would crash when displaying a date picker control. This is a bug in
the underlying wxWidgets toolkit. Worked around by using another locale for
dates and times when the language is Norsk. (SF#1820497)
- On Mac OS X, the shortcut to email a task is now Shift-Cmd-M instead of
Cmd-M (which is the system shortcut to minimize the active window).
(SF#3489341)
- Don't escape characters on Mac OS X when emailing a task. (SF#3489341)
Features added:
- In task viewers, late tasks, due soon tasks, and over due tasks can be
hidden. It was already possible to hide inactive tasks, active tasks, and
completed tasks. This makes it possible to create a task viewer that only
shows e.g. due soon tasks or late tasks, or any combination of task
statuses.
- Add an option to disable session management on GTK. The XFCE session manager
causes Task Coach to hang randomly on start.
- On Mac OS X and Linux (with espeak installed), reminders can be spoken.
This can be turned on in the preferences dialog, on the task reminder tab.
Release 1.3.7 - February 3, 2012
This is a bug fix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Paste as subitem didn't work for efforts. (SF#3479734)
- Hiding inactive tasks would also hide some active tasks. (SF#3479952)
- Setting the task font back to the default font in the preferences dialog
wouldn't work.
- Put a little bit of white space to the right of the priority column in the
task viewer to separate the numbers from the scroll bar. (SF#3479686)
- Disable the Anonymize menu item if there is no task file. (SF#3482373)
- After removing an actual start date of a task with effort and saving and
opening the task file, the task would still have an actual start date
(based on the earliest effort). (SF#3478684, SF#3479444)
- Marking an inactive task active wouldn't properly update the task icon from
grey to blue. (SF#3479444)
- Exporting to iCalendar wouldn't work if the subject or description had non-
ASCII characters. (SF#3483124)
Feature removed:
- The more complex filtering options for hiding tasks have been removed. The
complexity was causing bugs.
Release 1.3.6 - January 24, 2012
This is a bug fix release.
Bugs fixed:
- The link on the website for downloading sources pointed to the iOS
downloads.
- Task Coach couldn't deal with circular dependencies between tasks.
(SF#3477762, SF#3477637)
- The default actual start date and time couldn't be set in the preferences.
(SF#3478747)
Release 1.3.5 - January 22, 2012
This is a mixed feature and bug fix release.
Bugs fixed:
- After a reminder of a recurring task had been dismissed, Task Coach would
not create a new reminder when recurring the task. (SF#3469217)
- When the user is not using a translation, still set the locale so that the
proper formatting for dates and numbers is used. (SF#3091934)
- Sorting case sensitive didn't work.
- Categories of notes belonging to tasks and categories weren't saved.
(SF#3474487)
- On OpenSuse, Task Coach would crash when changing the width of columns.
Features added:
- Note categories are now synced as well (SyncML)
- Add "actual start date" attribute to tasks.
- Add toolbar buttons and menu items for marking tasks inactive, active and
completed.
- When exporting to iCal, include percentage complete of a task in the
exported data.
Feature changed:
- Rename "start date" to "planned start date" to enable adding a separate
"actual start date" attribute to tasks.
Website change:
- Redesigned website using Twitter Bootstrap. (index.html)
Release 1.3.4 - December 25, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Changing the color and font of tasks in the preferences dialog didn't work.
- In Spanish, showing reminders wouldn't work. (SF#3459524)
- Fix a small translation error in the French translation. (SF#3459028)
- Changes on a newly created template in the template editor were discarded.
- Help text referred to "Add template", but the menu item is called "Import
template". (SF#3462367)
- On Mac OS X, associate .tsk files with Task Coach and let the Finder use
the Task Coach icon for .tsk files. (SF#3462366)
- On Linux without libXss installed (seen on Fedora 16), Task Coach would
fail to start. Fixed by adding libXss as an explicit dependency to the RPM-
package. (SF#3463044)
- A lock created under Mac OS X Lion on a network share could not be broken on
another OS.
- Trying to save to a disconnected network share/USB drive would fail on
Windows. (SF#3462383)
Feature added:
- Provide for an option to always round effort up to the next increment in the
effort viewer. (http://uservoice.com/a/5Hbrf)
Release 1.3.3 - December 13, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- On Linux, after every edit of a task, the undo history would contain a
"recurrence edited" action even though the recurrence was not changed.
(SF#3453625)
- On Ubuntu, the date controls in the effort edit dialog would be invisible.
(SF#3452446)
- On Windows, when users try to save the task file in a folder where they
don't have permission, Task Coach would not give a proper warning.
- When editing multiple items at once, show all descriptions in the
description field for easier editing and/or copying. (SF#3446417)
Release 1.3.2 - December 5, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- When a subject contained an ampersand (&), the ampersand would not be shown
in menu's where the subject is used.
- When creating new subtasks, they would always be inactive. (SF#3446309)
- Closing task dialogs was very slow with a large task file.
- Setting a budget to zero would make it impossible to save the task file.
(SF#3449423)
- When the subject is too long to be displayed in the editor, display its
start instead of its end. (SF#3433481)
Feature added:
- Rounding of effort in effort viewers. (http://uservoice.com/a/6IzRQ)
Release 1.3.1 - November 27, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't turn off the start date on new tasks when users have indicated in the
preferences that they want a default start date. (SF#3440634)
- The "Start tracking from last effort" button in the effort dialog didn't
work. (SF#3440794)
- "View->Tree options->Collapse all items" did only collapse top level items.
(SF#3441180)
- The language choice control in the preferences dialog would always show
"Let the system determine the language", no matter what language the user
had picked before. (SF#3441456)
- Allow for flat pie charts, because reading data from flat pie charts is
easier than from 3D pie charts. (SF#3441469)
- On Windows, the Edit menu could become very wide if the user would edit a
long subject. (SF# 3441474)
- When the user edits the reminder date and time and it is in the past, don't
fire the reminder immediately, but wait a minute to give the user a change
to finish changing the reminder date and time into a future date and time.
(SF#3441442)
- Make sure the edit dialogs are by default big enough to show all controls.
(SF#3441783)
- On Linux without libXss installed (seen on Ubuntu 11.10), Task Coach would
fail to start. Fixed by adding libXss as an explicit dependency to the
Debian (.deb) package.
Features added:
- The effort dialog now has a button to set the stop date and time of the
effort to the current date and time.
- Allow for changing the angle of the pie charts via a slider in the toolbar
of the task statistics viewer.
- Allow for 6 minutes between effort start and stop times, in addition to 5,
10, 15, etc. See the features tab in the preferences dialog.
(http://uservoice.com/a/3nnfc)
- Dependencies can now be set using drag and drop.
Release 1.3.0 - November 20, 2011
This release makes all edits done in dialogs immediate.
Bugs fixed:
- It was and is possible to open multiple edit dialogs for the same item. With
earlier releases of Task Coach, the last edit dialog closed would overwrite
changes made with edit dialogs that were closed earlier. With the new edit
dialog functionality introduced in this release, changes are propagated
immediately to all open dialogs. This will prevent overwriting changes made
in other dialogs. (SF#1152561)
- Don't close the edit dialog when dragging and dropping an item.
(SF#3424138)
- When editing start or due date inline, Task Coach would ignore the
preference for keeping the time between the two dates constant.
- Prevent an exception when opening the View menu when the task statistics
viewer is selected.
- The Ctrl-F shortcut didn't work in most viewers. (SF#3438256)
- The export to HTML and CSV dialog didn't work on Windows XP. (SF#3440438)
- On Windows, use wider date and time controls when the user is running the
display with a higher DPI-setting. (SF#3439774)
Features added:
- Item edit dialogs make changes immediately, thus no need for OK and Cancel
buttons anymore. (http://uservoice.com/a/oNbcq)
- If there is no user input for some (configurable) time, Task coach now asks
what to do with tracked efforts when the user comes back.
(http://uservoice.com/a/4656L)
Release 1.2.31 - November 13, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Immediately update the number of tasks completed in the status bar of the
task viewer when the user marks a task completed. (SF#3185805)
- When adding new tasks, Task Coach would first show them briefly as inactive
before showing them as active. (SF#3085362)
- Only "preset" dates on new tasks.
- When changing a date/time inline, hitting enter in the date part of the
control would close the inline control, but not change the date.
(SF#3428503)
- The inline edit controls for dates/times didn't use the preferences for
start and end of working day. (SF#3431160)
- Using drag and drop to change dates in the calendar view would produce
erroneous results in some configurations. (SF#3428525)
- In some configurations, some hours would not be drawn in the calendar view
in vertical mode. (SF#3428524)
Features added:
- When exporting to CSV, dates and times can optionally be put in separate
columns.
- When exporting to CSV and HTML, the columns to be exported can be changed in
the export dialog.
- Simple task statistics viewer added that shows a pie chart of the
distribution of task states.
Release 1.2.30 - October 23, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Better explanation of the automatic import and export of Todo.txt format in
the preferences dialog. (SF#3418906)
- The task viewer in list mode now also shows the categories, prerequisites
and dependencies inherited from parent tasks, between parentheses. In
addition, the inherited categories, prerequisites or dependencies are taken
into account when sorting by categories, prerequisites or dependencies.
(SF#3414914)
- Don't reset the percentage complete to 0 when the user changes it from 100
to some other percentage less than 100.
- Fix a memory leak when opening edit dialogs.
Features added:
- The task viewer in list mode now also shows the categories, prerequisites
and dependencies inherited from parent tasks, between parentheses. In
addition, the inherited categories, prerequisites or dependencies are taken
into account when sorting by categories, prerequisites or dependencies.
(http://uservoice.com/a/ksD1q)
- Percentage complete, hourly fee and fixed fee of tasks can be edited in
place.
Release 1.2.29 - October 3, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- If auto importing of Todo.txt files was turned on, but there was no Todo.txt
file available for importing, saving would fail. (SF#3410648)
- When the priority field gets focus, select all priority digits so the user
can simply type a new number to overwrite the previous one. (SF#3411384)
- When showing effort in detail mode, Task Coach would only consider the
start of a period to decide whether to hide the period as a repeated period.
Now it considers both the start and the end date and time.
- When editing multiple tasks at the same time, changing the priority would
not automatically check the priority checkbox. (SF#3414423)
- Don't reorder the contents of the task file randomly when saving the task
file. This makes it possible to easily see the differences between versions
of a task file using diff. (SF#3412300)
Release 1.2.28 - September 18, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach would not work correctly with dates before 1900.
- When recovering from an error in the TaskCoach.ini file, get the default
settings from the right section. (SF#3404024)
- When opening a URL fails, show an error message dialog.
- Task Coach would crash when editing a task/category/etc on some versions of
wxPython.
- Adding a subtask without a due date would reset its parent's due date.
(SF#3405053)
- Using the Delete key when editing the priority inline would delete the task
on Windows. (SF#3400086)
- On Windows, SyncML couldn't be turned on. (SF#3406653)
- When adding a new (recurring) subtask to a parent task, push back the start
date of the parent if necessary. (SF#3409716)
- On Mac OS X Tiger, whenever trying to give focus to the search control focus
would return to the viewer immediately, making searching impossible.
(SF#3410268)
Features added:
- The SyncML password is now stored encrypted in the system keychain, if
available.
- Add task subject to the reminder dialog window title so that it's easier to
find a particular reminder when cycling through windows with Alt-Tab.
(http://uservoice.com/a/au6wa)
- Allow for dragging and dropping multiple items (tasks, notes, etc.) at once.
Patch provided by Kirill Müller. (http://uservoice.com/a/hledQ)
Release 1.2.27 - August 28, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- When importing a CVS file, Task Coach would not always guess the day/month
order correctly. It is now possible to specify whether days or months come
first in date columns.
- Unchecking an already checked mutually exclusive subcategory would uncheck
it, but not change the filtering. (SF#3377145)
- The calendar configuration dialog wouldn't open. (SF#3395689)
- Saving could fail after a reminder was first snoozed and then later the
reminder dialog was closed without snoozing. (SF#3397920)
- Using the Delete key when editing the priority inline would delete the
task. (SF#3400086)
- Using the Enter key when editing the priority inline would not accept the
changes on Mac OS X.
- Fix issues in Italian translation. (SF#3398600)
Release 1.2.26 - August 20, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Checking an already checked mutually exclusive subcategory now unchecks it.
(SF#3377145)
- Task Coach would not start on PPC Macs. (SF#3388666)
- Saving a task as template would not work if the subject or description
contains non-ascii characters
- Fix case insensitive searching with non-ascii languages. (SF#3395268)
- The recent searches menu in the search control wasn't working properly on
Mac OS X.
Features added:
- Importing and exporting of Todo.txt format task files. Todo.txt is an open
source todo list manager that works with plain text files. Todo.txt Touch
is a version of Todo.txt for the Android platform, that syncs with Dropbox.
By exporting your tasks to a todo.txt file in your Dropbox folder, you can
then edit them on your Android device with Todo.txt Touch. See the help
contents for more information. (http://uservoice.com/a/6Z54H,
http://uservoice.com/a/ceNES)
- Automatic importing and/or exporting on every save. This can be turned on
in the preferences dialog. Currently only possible for the Todo.txt format.
- When turning on the stop date and time in the effort edit dialog, set the
date and time to the current date and time. (http://uservoice.com/a/iFkds)
- When editing templates, one can now also edit subtasks.
- Remember the last visited path when choosing a file attachment.
(http://uservoice.com/a/jz5dE)
- Support times in addition to dates when importing from CSV.
Feature changed:
- The maximum of the number of hours that tasks are considered "due soon" is
now a big number instead of a mere 90. (http://uservoice.com/a/dVIBF)
Release 1.2.25 - August 8, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- The anonymize function wouldn't give a notification after saving the file.
- Refresh subtask appearance when moving it to a different parent task.
- Indentation of categories with and without subcategories in the category
viewer was slightly different. (SF#3345002)
- Windows would appear on the wrong monitor on Windows 7. (SF#3370403)
- On Windows 7, the task view would flicker every second. (SF#3354402)
- On Mac OS X, Task Coach would hang when both the splash screen and the "file
locked" dialog are displayed. (SF#3383050)
- Startup even when reading one of the templates fails. (SF#3386296)
- Task Coach would sometimes crash on startup on Linux.
Features added:
- Users can choose default (relative) dates and times for tasks in the
preference dialog. This allows for e.g. automatically setting a reminder
the next day. (http://uservoice.com/a/g9xpy)
- Faster saving.
- Preset common SyncML servers (MemoToo)
- The user can choose to use the selected snooze time in the reminder dialog
as default snooze time for future reminders.
- Support drag and drop of email messages from local folders in Thunderbird.
- Support drag and drop of email messages from Claws Mail. Patch provided by
Tobias Gradl.
Release 1.2.24 - July 17, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Synchronizing with an iDevice could change the whole UI font.
- Drag and drop from Thunderbird would not work in some circumstances.
- When recurring tasks with a snoozed reminder, use the original reminder date
and time as basis for the next reminder, instead of the snoozed reminder.
(SF#2942198)
- In-place editing of reminders didn't work. (SF#3361971)
- Completed tasks with a start date would not show up in the calendar.
Features changed:
- New "Anonymize" item in the Help menu. This saves an anonymized copy of all
data from a task file in order to safely attach it to a bug report.
- Recurring tasks can recur based on the original start and due date (as was
the only option until now) or based on the last completion date.
(http://uservoice.com/a/d3n3g)
Release 1.2.23 - July 7, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bug fixed:
- Task Coach would fail on parsing old templates, causing it not to start
properly.
Release 1.2.22 - July 2, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bug fixed:
- Properly open task files with email attachments that have a non-ascii
subject. (SF#3333730)
Feature changed:
- You can set a default snooze time in the preferences that is used in the
reminder dialog as the default suggestion for the snooze time. If you use
Growl or Snarl, the default snooze time is added to the reminder after the
reminder fires.
Release 1.2.21 - June 25, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Prevent exception messages in log file (Windows) or on command line
(Linux). (SF#3315358, SF#3316220, SF#3324330)
- Properly decode non-ascii email subject headers. (SF#3311272)
- Creating a template from a task would not work any more. (SF#3317048)
- Unplugging a monitor while Task Coach was running would cause the dialogs to
always open in the top left corner on Windows.
Feature added:
- Start, due, completion, and reminder date and time of tasks can be edited
in-place when the relevant column is visible.
Release 1.2.20 - June 10, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach tried to use Python 2.5 on Ubuntu. (SF#3309089, SF#3309317)
- The total number of effort records displayed in the status bar of an effort
viewer would be incorrect when the effort viewer was showing aggregated
effort (per day, per week or per month).
- When hiding completed tasks and showing tasks belonging to a specific
category (say C), Task Coach would show a task even though it didn't belong
to that category if that task had completed subtasks belonging to category
C. (SF#3309006)
- Floating and then closing the task viewer didn't work. (SF#3313199)
Features added:
- Descriptions of tasks, notes and categories can be edited in-place when the
description column is visible. Priority of tasks can be edited in-place when
the priority column is visible. Budget of tasks can be edited in-place when
the budget column is visible.
- Basic editing (dates, subject) of task templates.
- Session management on Linux is back. (SF#2929786)
Release 1.2.19 - May 29, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Editing multiple items would hang Task Coach. (SF#3305844)
- Changing the task of an effort record would make it invisible. (SF#3304940)
- The keyboard shortcut for adding effort (Ctrl-E) wouldn't work in edit
dialogs. (SF#3306827)
- Closing Task Coach with a square task viewer open caused exceptions in the
log file. (SF#3307836)
- Drag and drop email from Thunderbird, PortableApps edition, didn't work.
(SF#3058781)
- On Mac OS X, the main window would grow 11 pixels in height at each launch.
- On Mac OS X, the editor dialogs would shrink a little each time they were
opened.
Features added:
- The default foreground color, background color, font and icon of active,
inactive, completed, over due and due soon tasks can be changed in the
preferences. (http://uservoice.com/a/nLMgZ)
- The way start and due dates are tied together when changing one of them is
now configurable.
- Add percentage complete to CSV import fields.
Distribution changed:
- Removed support for Fedora 13.
Release 1.2.18 - May 21, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Make sure long menu texts don't overlap the keyboard shortcut.
- CSV import would crash on Mac OS X if the number of fields wasn't constant.
- When starting or stopping an effort, the task's icon in the calendar viewer
would not change.
- Session management wouldn't work on XFCE.
- Start up even if the TaskCoach.ini file contains garbage. (SF#3299850,
SF#3300722)
- Don't crash if there is no session manager on Linux (SF#3300643)
- Give the import dialog a proper window title bar.
- Going back and then forward in the CSV import wizard didn't work.
- Task Coach wouldn't keep the inline subject edit control open in the task
viewer when tracking effort. (SF#3301562)
Features added:
- Open tracked tasks without looking them up using the Actions->Edit tracked
task menu item (Shift-Alt-T). (http://uservoice.com/a/itBB5)
- Effort tracking can be started for inactive/future tasks. Doing so sets the
start date and time of the task to the current date and time.
(http://uservoice.com/a/oyhL7)
- Show name of the current task file in the system tray tooltip window.
(http://uservoice.com/a/959Qc)
- Tabs in the edit dialogs can be dragged and dropped to create any layout
the user may want.
- CSV files may also have colons or semicolons as separators.
- It is possible to select which rows to import from a CSV file.
- The CSV import wizard tries to match column headers from the CSV file to
task attributes.
- The CSV import will reuse existing categories if the names match.
Feature removed:
- Session management for X is temporarily removed, until we can fix the
occasional crashes associated with it.
Release 1.2.17 - May 5, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Make sure one of the viewers is selected in the export to iCalendar dialog.
- Properly update the icon of a task with subtasks when adding it to a
category with an icon. (SF#3295077)
- The calendar view would cause spurious errors on Windows. (SF#3294878)
- Use the actual system font on Mac OS X and Windows in the tree and list
viewers. (SF#3295070)
- Dutch translation used Ctrl-H as shortcut for both help and increase
priority. Increase priority is now Ctrl-I. Maximize priority is Shift-
Ctrl-I, for consistency. (SF#3296141)
- The Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut for marking a task completed wasn't working
in the French translation. (SF#3293786)
- When quitting Task Coach in minimized mode, make sure the main window is
minimized the next session and not completely hidden. (SF#3296144)
- Packages of the previous release did not install correctly on some Linux
distributions due to a non standard version number in the package (RPM or
Deb). (SF#3294852, SF#3297345)
- For tasks with a non-default icon, still show the clock icon when tracking
effort. (SF#3085094)
- The width of the period column in the effort viewer would not be reused
across sessions. (SF#3296303)
- Fix session management on some Linux distributions. Also automatically
restart Task Coach when reopening the session. (SF#3296733)
- Category mappings in CSV import would not work
- On Windows, rearranging the order of the templates would have no effect.
(SF#3297913)
Feature added:
- When importing a CSV file, let the user decide if quote characters are
escaped by doubling them or escaping them with another character.
Release 1.2.16 - April 28, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Installing as a non-admin user on Mac OS X wouldn't work. (SF#3288682)
- Don't crash when the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable is not set
(Linux). (SF#3292509)
- Update the task viewer every minute when the time left column is shown.
- Task Coach would crash after 1 minute on XFCE. (SF#3292509)
- When multiple effort viewers are open, correctly remember how effort is
grouped in each effort viewer across sessions. (SF#3294304)
Features added:
- Added a "Check for update" menu item to the help menu.
(http://uservoice.com/a/dwNJ0)
- Allow for exporting to HTML with CSS style information included in the HTML
file. (http://uservoice.com/a/i1LqL)
Release 1.2.15 - April 23, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- When deleting items, correctly move the selection. (SF#3056999)
- Saving would fail when the task file contains deleted tasks with
prerequisite tasks. (SF#3290163, SF#3290300)
- Try to guess the correct encoding when dragging and dropping email messages
from Outlook. (SF#3288820)
Features added:
- Added a "Help improve translations" menu item to the help menu.
(http://uservoice.com/a/468yX)
- Remember size and position of edit dialogs. (http://uservoice.com/a/70ZTj)
- Start effort tracking from the reminder dialog.
(http://uservoice.com/a/f4UUt)
Release 1.2.14 - April 17, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- None of the translations were working. (SF#3283447)
- Delete key was not working properly in the search box. (SF#3286497)
Features added:
- More extensive help menu.
- Import from CSV now includes budget, fixed fee and hourly fee fields.
- Task Coach now supports a limited form of session management under Windows
and Linux; pending changes are automatically saved when the user logs out.
Release 1.2.13 - April 9, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- The notes section was missing from the help contents. (SF#3241219)
- Mark subtasks of tasks that have uncompleted prerequisites as inactive
(grey). (SF#3237286)
- In the setup script, don't assume Mac OS X when the operating system isn't
Linux or Windows. There's also the possibility the user is using BSD.
(SF#3236769)
- Don't force users to accept the license since the license doesn't actually
require users to accept it (Windows). (SF#3247643)
- Upon startup, effort viewers would always show the column header popup menu
for detail mode, even when the effort viewer would be in aggregate mode
(i.e. effort aggregated per day, per week or per month).
- Ask the user for confirmation before overwriting existing files.
(SF#2794041)
- When adding an item, automatically select it. When removing an item with a
parent, automatically select it. Make sure keyboard navigation (up and
down) correctly moves the selection after marking a task completed.
(SF#3056999)
Features added:
- Allow for filtering by category via the View->Filter menu. This also adds a
menu item for showing all items regardless of category, with Ctrl-R (R for
Reset) as keyboard shortcut.
- When possible, try to keep the task duration when changing its start date.
- Tasks in the calendar view can now be dragged and dropped and resized to
change their dates.
Feature changed:
- For consistency with the menu item for resetting category filters, the
keyboard shortcut for resetting all filters is now Shift-Ctrl-R (R for
Reset).
Release 1.2.12 - March 20, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Bring back the 'Stop tracking effort' menu item in the context menu of task
and effort viewers and make menu's more consistent. (SF#3206702)
- Added keyboard shortcuts for adding categories and notes.
- The Delete key wasn't working in text controls. (SF#3206464, SF#3213964)
- The Enter key wasn't working in text controls on Mac OS X. (SF#3223714)
- The Enter key would stop working after opening and closing a new viewer.
(SF#3206366)
- Make Ctrl-Z (undo), Ctrl-Y (redo), Enter (edit) and Delete work in edit
dialogs.
- Fixed a performance issue with the calendar viewer when tracking efforts.
- Don't clear the clipboard after pasting an item, so that an item can be
pasted multiple times. (SF#3198880 )
- Don't try to add deleted prerequisite tasks when loading the task file.
(SF#3219001)
Feature added:
- Provide more options for filtering completed, due and inactive tasks.
(http://uservoice.com/a/eBFSz)
Release 1.2.11 - March 10, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Sometimes the total effort per period displayed in the effort viewer would
be wrong. (SF#3146576)
- On Windows, the icons of the undo and redo menu items would disappear after
their first use.
- Correctly remember the main window position when closing Task Coach while
the main window is minimized. (SF#3199529)
Features added:
- Import tasks from CSV file.
- In addition to hiding all completed tasks, it is now also possible to hide
completed tasks but keep recently completed tasks visible for a limited
amount of time. This can be done by hiding tasks that were completed before
today, before yesterday, before the current week or before the current
month, using the View->Filter menu. (http://uservoice.com/a/lZ8ss)
- In addition to hiding all future tasks, it is now also possible to hide
future tasks but still show future tasks that will become active in a short
while. This can be done by hiding future tasks that start today, tomorrow,
next week or next month, using the View->Filter menu.
Features changed:
- Keyboard shortcut improvements: On Windows and Linux, the keyboard shortcut
for adding a task is now simply Insert. A new subtask can be added with
Shift-Insert. On Mac OS X, the Insert shortcut doesn't work for some reason
so there a new task can be added with Cmd-N and a new subtask with Shift-
Cmd-N. The Delete keyboard shortcut works for all viewers. Notes can be
added to tasks and categories with the Ctrl-B keyboard shortcut. Tasks and
notes can be mailed with the Ctrl-M keyboard shortcut. Attachments can be
added with the Shift-Ctrl-A keyboard shortcut and all attachments of an
item can be opened with the Shift-Ctrl-O keyboard shortcut.
- Rearranged the menu's: Instead of a Task, Category, Effort and Note menu,
there are now a New menu for creating new items and an Actions menu for
applying actions such as marking a task completed, mailing an item and
starting and stopping effort tracking. The Edit and Delete menu items are
now placed in the Edit menu.
Distribution changed:
- Task Coach was added to the Ports collection of FreeBSD thanks to Kevin Lo.
See the download section of the Task Coach website.
Release 1.2.10 - February 20, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Column header popup menu's didn't work. (SF#3175083)
- The stop effort tracking button on the toolbar of effort viewers wasn't
working.
- The viewer background color would not obey the global user setting.
(http://uservoice.com/a/g2CST)
- Task files wouldn't specify the encoding in the XML header, making it harder
to process them with other tools. (SF#3182504)
- In the calendar viewer, use the completion date as end date when a task is
completed. (SF#3183086)
Features added:
- Efforts are filtered by categories like tasks and notes.
- Pausing effort tracking: clicking the stop tracking effort button when no
effort is being tracked will resume tracking for the task that was last
being tracked. (http://uservoice.com/a/cXLhb)
- Start tracking effort and stop/resume tracking effort have keyboard
shortcuts: Ctrl-T for start tracking effort and Shift-Ctrl-T for
stop/resume tracking effort. (http://uservoice.com/a/9hhaE)
- Clear all filters via a keyboard shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-F
(http://uservoice.com/a/4Tt4T)
- Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication when dropping IMAP mails from
Thunderbird.
Feature changed:
- Show left/right scroll buttons in notebook controls so that it is more clear
for users that there might be more tabs in the notebook than currently
visible. A drop down list of all tabs in the notebook can still be accessed
using the Ctrl-Tab shortcut.
Release 1.2.9 - February 5, 2011
This is a mixed bugfix and feature release.
Bugs fixed:
- Improve keyboard navigation between viewers.
- Accept dropped mail messages from Outlook with non-ascii characters.
(SF#3172736)
- Open editor on the same display as the main window on multi-monitor setups.
(SF#3166563)
- The shortcut for "Decrease priority" (Ctrl-D) wasn't working in the Spanish
translation. (SF#3165234)
- Prevent the tooltip overlapping popup menus on Linux. (SF#2989198)
- Dropping IMAP e-mails from Thunderbird would not work on some
configurations.
Features added:
- Hitting Ctrl-F when a viewer has keyboard focus moves keyboard focus to the
toolbar search control. Hitting Escape when the toolbar search control has
keyboard focus moves the focus back to the viewer. Hitting Ctrl-Down when
the toolbar search control has keyboard focus pops up the search control
menu. (http://uservoice.com/a/6fW73)
- Added overview of keyboard shortcuts to help information.
- The calendar viewer configuration has been moved to its own dialog. Add more
configurable attributes: highlight color, show now, font size.
- Effort viewers can be sorted ascending and descending.
- Edit, preferences and help dialogs have maximize and minimize buttons.
(http://uservoice.com/a/mymqf)
Release 1.2.8 - January 22, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach wouldn't open task files when a task viewer was sorted by
reminder date/time. (SF#3153541)
- Correctly fix drag-and-drop from Thunderbird. (SF#2916405, SF#3058781)
- Correctly keep track of selected items when using shift-click to select a
range of items so that the right items are exported when the user exports a
selection. (SF#3154036)
- Task Coach would crash at launch if TaskCoach.ini could not be loaded.
- When marking the only subtask of a task uncompleted, the subtask would stay
green. (SF#3151018)
- On Windows 7 and Vista, the application icon wouldn't show up correctly.
(SF#3158445)
- Correctly use mail message subject when dropping a mail message from
Outlook. (SF#2806617)
Features added:
- The effort edit dialog now has a "Edit task" button next to the task
selection drop down to quickly open the effort's task.
- The effort viewer now has "Start tracking effort" and "Stop tracking
effort" buttons on the toolbar. The "Start tracking effort" starts tracking
effort for the task(s) of the selected effort(s). This enables you to
quickly resume tracking the most recent task by selecting the topmost effort
record and hit the "Start tracking effort" button. The "Stop tracking
effort" button simply does what it says and was added for consistencies
sake. (http://uservoice.com/a/fHSAX)
Release 1.2.7 - January 8, 2011
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Performance improvements: faster closing of task dialogs, faster item
selection, no redraw of task viewers every minute.
- When removing all efforts, correctly update the effort viewer. (SF#3125553)
- When editing a task that already has prerequisite tasks, don't reset the
prerequisites. (SF#3137055)
- Huge performance fix in the calendar viewer.
- When double clicking a column header border don't set the column width to
zero.
- Process drag-and-drops from Thunderbird. (SF#2916405, SF#3058781)
- When canceling the save dialog, the task file would be saved with an empty
filename. (SF#3152160)
Features added:
- Always highlight the current day in the calendar view.
- Show current time in calendar view.
Release 1.2.6 - December 5, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Avoid the "Pas de sujet" bug when dropping a mail from Outlook on a French
Windows OS.
- Don't crash when the note viewer is open. (SF#3122115)
- Don't crash when the square task viewer is open.
- When double clicking the latest effort, don't open the previous one, but the
one double clicked. (SF#3121403)
- When searching in the effort viewer with "Include subitems" turned on,
actually include effort for subtasks in the search results. (SF#3124833)
- Some more performance improvements.
Release 1.2.5 - November 28, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Fixed another memory leak in the calendar view. (SF#3108959)
- Some performance improvements. (SF#3117375)
- Don't throw exception when Snarl is not available. (SF#3119740)
Release 1.2.4 - November 21, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- On Windows, make the installer check for running instances of Task Coach
before installing a new version. The installer is able to detect running
instances of Task Coach release 1.2.4 or newer. (SF#3109658)
- Mass editing of items wouldn't work after selecting items with Ctrl-A
(select all). (SF#3108176)
- Bring back total time spent and total revenue columns in the effort viewer.
(SF#3112807)
- Fixed a memory leak in the calendar viewer. (SF#3108959)
Release 1.2.3 - November 14, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Show clock icon for tracked tasks in the task viewer. (SF#3106158)
- File => Save task as template didn't work any more.
- Hide parent task when all of its subtasks are hidden by filtered categories
and the parent task itself doesn't belong to the filtered categories.
- Don't throw exception when end of working day is 24. (SF#3105496)
- When recurring a task, make sure its start date stays before its due date.
Patch provided by Svetoslav Trochev.
- The edit templates dialog was unresponsive under MS Windows. (SF#3106221)
- When setting the column width to the minimum in horizontal monthly view,
switching to weekly view would hang Task Coach and prevent it from launching
again. (SF#3091151)
Feature added:
- Updated translations and added partial Occitan and Papiamento translations.
Release 1.2.2 - November 6, 2010
This release adds a template edit dialog and fixes some bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- Type indicator of attachments in the attachment tab of edit dialogs was
missing. (SF#3087177)
- After editing the subject of a composite task in the task list viewer (e.g.
changing 'Project A' into 'Project B'), also update the subjects of the
subtasks (e.g. 'Project A -> Task 1' should update to 'Project B -> Task
1').
- When editing a subject of a subtask in the task list viewer inline, don't
include the subjects of its ancestors in the text control.
- When filtering on categories, don't show tasks whose subtasks (that belong
to the filtered categories) are all hidden by another filter.
- When double clicking in the calendar viewer (when it is in vertical month
mode) to create a new task, set the due date of the new task to the end of
the day. This makes sure the new task is visible in the calendar after
closing the task edit dialog. (SF#3103011)
- Include end of work day as option when selecting a time in the effort edit
dialog. (http://uservoice.com/a/380R8)
- Remember column widths in the category viewer across sessions.
Features added:
- Don't ask for a name when creating a new template. There is now a template
edit dialog; one can only delete templates though.
(http://uservoice.com/a/4Ntz6)
- Allow the user to change the ordering of templates
Distribution changed:
- Added support for Fedora 14. (SF#3101814)
Release 1.2.1 - October 16, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't refuse to open a task file when it is sorted on a "total" column.
(SF#3085056)
- Don't expand tasks in the prerequisite tab when opening a task dialog, it's
really slow. (SF#3085358)
- Always display the month name in the horizontal monthly calendar view.
(SF#3062505)
- Allow the user to resize columns in horizontal calendar view (SF#3062505)
- Reset percentage complete when recurring a task.
- When using relative paths for attachments, attachments couldn't be opened
from the attachments tab in the edit dialog. (SF#3087177)
Release 1.2.0 - October 9, 2010
This release adds task dependencies.
Bugs fixed:
- An exception would be thrown if search strings contained a percentage
symbol.
- When printing, correctly align columns.
- Show sort indicator in attachment viewers.
- Task Coach would always change budget, hourly fee, and fixed fee to zero
when mass editing tasks. (SF#3081666)
- Better contrast in the calendar view (SF#3072138)
- Tasks started at 00:00 would be displayed twice in the monthly vertical
calendar view (SF#3062501)
Feature added:
- Tasks can have one or more prerequisite tasks. As long as a task has one or
more prerequisite tasks that are not completed, the dependent task is
inactive. The task tree viewer has two extra columns, one for showing
prerequisite tasks and one for showing dependent tasks. Prerequisite tasks
can be selected in the Prerequisites tab of the task edit dialog. Dependent
tasks cannot be selected explicitly but are simply derived from the
prerequisite tasks. For example, if task B can be started only after task A
has been completed, task A is called a prerequisite for task B and task B
is called a dependency of task A.
Features changed:
- To simplify the application and reduce the number of columns all "total"
and "overall" columns have been removed. For composite items that have
children, the tree viewers show the "total" or "overall" value when the
item is collapsed and the individual value when the item is not collapsed.
An example may help: suppose task A has a budget of 20 hours and subtask A1
has a budget of 10 hours. In the task viewer in tree mode, the budget
column shows 20 hours for task A when it is expanded and 30 hours when it
is collapsed. For task A1 the budget shown is always 10 hour. In list mode,
the task viewer shows the individual values, so a budget of 20 hours for
task A and 10 hours for task A1.
- The order of tabs in tabbed dialogs can be changed. Task Coach now
remembers the order of the tabs in the item edit dialogs and the
preferences dialog. (http://uservoice.com/a/oa7jx)
- When printing, show the sorted column by underlining the column header.
- Reorganized some menu items differently and added mnemonics to all menu
items.
Implementation changed:
- The task file format was changed to support task dependencies. The task
file format version number is now 31.
Release 1.1.4 - September 30, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach would not properly use the system's locale to select the language
if the language was set to 'Let the system determine the language',
resulting in the wrong language being used. (SF#3064566)
- Don't switch top/bottom and left/right margins in the print preview.
- Refresh task viewer filters every minute so that when the task viewer is
hiding inactive tasks, inactive tasks that become active also become
visible. (SF#3072013)
- Displaying revenue in effort viewers was slow. The effort viewer has a
revenue column that shows the revenue earned per effort record. Until now,
this would be the task fee per hour times the duration of the effort record
plus the part of the fixed fee of the task earned with this effort record.
So if a task had a fixed fee of 1000,- and you had spent 10 hours on the
task, an effort record of one hour would have a revenue of 100,-. However,
calculating all this would get slow for larger amounts of effort records,
so the effort revenue now only shows the variable part, i.e. fee per hour
times effort duration. (SF#3056540)
- In the situation where Task Coach was started minimized in the system tray
and with the setting "Hide window when minimizing" turned on, the main
window would not be hidden when minimizing it. (SF#3077271)
Features added:
- Allow hiding composite tasks in calendar view.
(http://uservoice.com/a/aul3S)
- In the tree/list task viewer, allow additional selection with Cmd-click on
Mac OS X.
Release 1.1.3 - September 10, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- When closing a edit dialog, don't delete the category, note, and attachment
viewers in the dialog before the data has been processed. (SF#3059143)
- The PortableApps platform would override the language selected by the user
in Task Coach. (SF#2965342, SF#3059429)
- When retrieving the latest available Task Coach version number from the Task
Coach website doesn't work, simply ignore that.
- Don't crash when searching efforts with "Include subitems" turned on.
Feature added:
- When selecting the language in the preferences dialog, you can select 'Let
the system determine the language'. If you're using the PortableApps
version of Task Coach and the PortableApps platform, the PortableApps
platform language will be used. Otherwise, Task Coach will let your system's
locale determine the language.
Release 1.1.2 - September 2, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach wouldn't run on Ubuntu 9.04. This is because Task Coach tried to
use a feature from wxPython 2.8.9.2 while Ubuntu 9.04 ships with wxPython
2.8.9.1. (SF#3054431)
- Only close edit dialogs when the edited item is really deleted, not when the
item is hidden by a filter. (SF#3042880)
- Refresh filtered task viewers at midnight to properly show tasks that
become active. (SF#3035384)
- The checkbox for mutually exclusive subcategories in the category editor
would be unchecked even if a category had exclusive subcategories.
Release 1.1.1 - August 26, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- On Mac OS X, properly read task files when the font description cannot be
parsed. This may happen when reading a task file that was last saved on a
different platform. Unfortunately, font specifications are platform
specific. (SF#3047183)
- Prevent exception when reading old task files.
- Saving of templates didn't work, resulting in invalid template files that
would in turn prevent Task Coach from starting properly. (SF#3052090)
- On Windows, the tabs of the dialogs would flicker when moving the mouse over
the tabs.
- Use dialogs for reminders. (SF#3050445)
Release 1.1.0 - August 20, 2010
This release adds time to start, due and completion dates of tasks and adds
support for mass editing of items. It also adds support for the upcoming
version 3.0 for the iPhone/iPod/iPad.
Bugs fixed:
- Icons in edit dialogs would be lined up vertically on some versions of
Windows XP. Fixed by using a notebook widget instead of the listbook widget.
(SF#2927384)
- The new edit dialogs better support tabbing through the dialogs.
(SF#2687959)
- On Mac OS X, the tabs in the editor and preferences dialogs were too small.
- Searching descriptions wasn't working in the effort viewer. (SF#3031411)
Features added:
- The start, due and completion dates of tasks now also include a time. When
reading old task files, Task Coach adds a default time to tasks: start
dates get a time of "00:00", due dates and completion dates get a time of
"23:59". (http://uservoice.com/a/nd3mH)
- Mass editing of items. When editing multiple items (tasks, notes, etc.),
the edit dialog allows for selectively changing attributes of all edited
items. (http://uservoice.com/a/ahxq8)
- Less intrusive notifications (reminders).
- The calendar orientation can be changed.
- Add an option to the calendar viewer to show all tasks but those which have
no start nor due date (SF#3008517)
- The headers in the calendar view are now always visible.
(http://uservoice.com/a/irtQs)
- The calendar view can show an arbitrary number of periods (except months).
(http://uservoice.com/a/5F5Ka)
Implementation changed:
- The task file format was changed to support start, due and completion date
and time. The task file format version number is now 30.
Release 1.0.10 - August 15, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- When SyncML was on, the effort viewer would show effort for deleted tasks.
- When dragging panes and dropping them onto each other to create an automatic
notebook, make sure dropped viewers are properly contained in the notebook.
- When renaming a viewer, apply the new name to the active viewer.
(SF#3042037)
Feature added:
- Allow automatic creation of a notebook of viewers on top of the initial task
viewer. This makes the user interface functionally equivalent to the
previously removed "tabbed" mode.
Release 1.0.9 - August 8, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- On Windows, Task Coach wouldn't start when the user interface was in
"tabbed" mode. (SF#3041123)
- On Windows, toolbar items that should trigger a popup menu (e.g. templates)
wouldn't.
- On Windows, disabled toolbar buttons wouldn't be greyed out.
Feature removed:
- The "tabbed" user interface mode has been removed. Having two different
user interfaces makes it harder to test changes that affect the user
interface, as evidenced by a bug in the previous release.
Release 1.0.8 - August 6, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Drop support for SyncML on Debian; too many architectures/versions to
support.
- File attachments would not open on Lubuntu
- Task Coach would crash on start on Ubuntu 10.10
- Fix an exception that would prevent Task Coach from closing. (SF#3031709,
SF#3031711)
- Close task tree popup (in the effort dialog) when clicking the dropdown
button twice. (SF#3032835)
- On Windows, toolbar buttons in dialogs would stop working after a while.
(SF#3032834, SF#2560895)
- Refresh filter for tasks due today/tomorrow/etc. at midnight. (SF#3035384)
- On Linux, when selecting an effort in the effort viewer with the mouse also
give keyboard focus to the effort viewer. (SF#3039519)
Release 1.0.7 - July 2, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- On some Linux platforms, when using KDE, Task Coach would not properly
restore after being minimized to the system tray. (SF#2988693, SF#3011539)
- Reduce flickering when tracking effort. (SF#2819141, SF#2995374)
- Task Coach wasn't installing on Ubuntu 9.04. (SF#3022926)
- The right-click column header menu still wasn't working in task, note and
category viewers.
Release 1.0.6 - June 26, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- The right-click column header menu wasn't working in task, note and category
viewers.
- On Jolicloud, don't crash when printing. (SF#3018038)
- On Ubuntu 10.4, don't crash when clicking the font button in the appearance
tab of edit dialogs. (SF#2992006, SF#3021759)
- Don't display long descriptions in an inline text control, it's too buggy.
(SF#2992853, SF#2992850, SF#2992848)
- On Mac OS X, don't cut text in text controls when users type <cmd><shift>X,
only when they type <cmd>X. (SF#2942288)
- Properly save the task file when the font name contains non-ascii
characters. (SF#3014110)
- Correctly export tasks and effort to vCalendar (.ics) when they contain non-
ascii characters. (SF#3016528)
Release 1.0.5 - June 8, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach would fail to save the task file correctly, when it couldn't
read temporary files for email attachments. (SF#2369711)
- Don't crash when using a purple folder or led icon. (SF#3009432)
- Don't allow exporting efforts to iCalendar when effort viewer is in
aggregate mode, it would result in an empty .ics file. (SF#2935616)
- SyncML synchronization did not work for tasks. (SF#3012234)
Feature changed:
- Renamed the Edit->Paste into task menu item to Edit->Paste as subitem and
made it work for categories and notes too.
Release 1.0.4 - May 30, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- When starting iconized on Mac OS X, the application window would close.
(SF#2992764)
- When exporting tasks with descriptions that contain newlines to iCalendar
(.ics) format, produce a valid iCalendar file. (SF#2975805)
- When reading a task file saved on another platform, be prepared for fonts
with size zero; use the default font size instead. (SF#2968199, SF#3002577)
- After deleting multiple efforts for one task in the effort viewer, the
effort viewer would still show some of the removed efforts.
- When waking up from standby/sleep, only request user attention when there
are reminders to display. (SF#2992049)
- The synchronization with the iPhone would crash in some circumstances, when
parent objects have been used on the iPhone and are deleted on the desktop.
(SF#3007248)
- When maximizing or minimizing priority, don't take the priority of deleted
tasks into account. (SF#3008495)
- When calculating overall percentage complete of a task, consider whether the
task will be completed automatically when all of its subtasks are completed.
(SF#2992534)
Feature changed:
- Added some more possible snooze times. Use the preferences dialog to turn
them on.
Distributions changed:
- We no longer build a Task Coach RPM for Fedora 8, 9, and 10. These releases
of Fedora are unsupported by the Fedora project.
- The OpenSuse RPM is not "noarch" but "i386". (SF#2997377)
Release 1.0.3 - April 25, 2010
This release fixes a few bugs, and improves a few features, such as making the
calendar view sortable.
Bugs fixed:
- When showing effort records in aggregate mode (per day, per week, per
month), always put the Total row on the first line of its period.
(SF#2895940)
- The download link for the Debian package wasn't pointing at any package.
(SF#2985649)
- Don't show deleted tasks in the task dropdown of the effort edit dialog.
(SF#2987202)
- Snarl notifications wouldn't work when the subject or description included
non-ASCII characters. (SF#2986071)
- When saving files, make sure the default extension is added to filenames if
both the user and the native save dialog don't add it. (SF#2987204)
- When listing notes and attachment in a popup window, show them sorted
instead of in a seemingly random order. (SF#2991230)
- Don't crash and corrupt the task file when the user assigns the green folder
icon to a task, category or note. (SF#2991511)
- Tasks wouldn't use the exact same font as the category they belong to.
(SF#2990350)
- The calendar view didn't handle the task's font. (SF#2990875)
Features added:
- Use item titles in dialogs and in the undo/redo menu to make it clearer what
items the user is/was working on. (http://uservoice.com/a/9zBuo)
- In the task, category, and note viewers, show long descriptions in a text
control with scrollbars so the rows don't take up too much vertical space.
(http://uservoice.com/a/h37jH)
- Tasks can now be sorted in the calendar viewer.
- Support for libnotify under Linux (for reminders).
Release 1.0.2 - April 10, 2010
This release fixes some bugs, and adds support for the Snarl notification
system.
Bugs fixed:
- Exports and prints would show long descriptions abbreviated with "...",
exactly as the long descriptions were displayed in the description column
of task, category, and note tree viewers. To fix this, the task, category,
and note tree viewers show descriptions fully (when the description column
is visible). (SF#2975805)
- In the calendar viewer, March 31st would not appear. (SF#2979461)
- The 13th hour would not show up in thr daily calendar view. (SF#2979452)
- The position of the main window wouldn't be saved so it couldn't be restored
the next session. (SF#2969292)
- On Ubuntu, when the user would scroll to the bottom of a tree viewer and
collaps an item, the tree would not be redrawn correctly. (SF#2947136)
- Setting a task to 100 percent complete didn't work. (SF#2982561)
- When the user clicks on a URL embedded in a description and the URL fails to
open, show an error dialog instead of throwing an exception.
- The website pointed Ubuntu 9.10 users to the wrong deb package. (SF#2983202)
- On Ubuntu 10.04, Task Coach wouldn't be added to the Applications/Office
menu. (SF#2978098)
- After double clicking a task in the calendar viewer and changing its dates,
if the change would make the task disappear from the current period, the
task would not be properly drawn.
Feature added:
- Support for Snarl under Windows (for reminders).
Release 1.0.1 - March 26, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach would try to use a non-existing icon when the SyncML feature was
turned on. (SF#2975952)
- Task Coach wouldn't install properly on Ubuntu 10.04. Added a deb for Ubuntu
10.04. (SF#2975538)
- When setting the end working hour to 24, the calendar viewer would crash.
(SF#2975347)
- When trying to display tasks with notes, the calendar viewer would crash.
- Synchronization with the iPhone did not work. (SF#2975920, SF#2976427)
Release 1.0.0 - March 22, 2010
To mark that Task Coach has been available for five years now, we call this
release version 1.0. This release adds a calendar viewer for tasks, partial
drag and drop support for Mail.app under Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard,
and configurable icons.
Bug fixed:
- The template pop-up menu in task viewers would not show up at the right
position.
Features added:
- Calendar viewer for tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/iQI4g)
- Drag and drop e-mail from Mail.app, on Max OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.
(http://uservoice.com/a/niJMS)
- The square map task viewer can also display tasks by priority. Note that
tasks with negative priorities are not displayed.
(http://uservoice.com/a/kxeoS)
- The icons of tasks, notes, and categories can be changed.
Release 0.78.4 - March 6, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- In some cases, when typing dates in the editor, they would be reset to the
current day. (SF#2942425)
- Clear the drag image after dropping an item onto white space (on Linux).
(SF#2947127)
- Reminders that should have fired when the computer was asleep wouldn't until
the next launch of Task Coach (Windows and Mac OS X only). (SF#2888688)
- On Mac OS X, task viewers would not be refreshed at midnight if the computer
was sleeping by this time.
- Having too many mail attachments on Windows would cause a "Too many open
files" error.
- When closing a viewer, Task Coach would sometimes try to destroy an already
deleted right-click menu, leading to an exception or an error message in the
log file. (SF#2948302)
Release 0.78.3 - January 31, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Free up resources (user objects and memory) on Windows when closing dialogs.
The memory leak was caused by popup menu's in dialogs not being deleted.
(SF#2938091, SF#2891350, SF#2560895, SF#2444185, SF#2214043)
- Close the inline subject edit control before showing or hiding columns in
tree viewers, to prevent problems redrawing the tree items. (SF#2940211)
- Prevent "zombie" viewers; viewers that are not visible but do still use
processing power. (SF#2932609)
Release 0.78.2 - January 23, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bug fixed:
- Faster redrawing of task/category/note trees.
Release 0.78.1 - January 17, 2010
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Bring back the "Don't snooze" option in reminder dialogs.
- Synchronizing with the iPhone didn't work. (SF#2925618)
- When an active task's foreground color is the default (black), don't mix
that color with the foreground colors of the task's categories. (SF#2930751)
- Let subtasks use their parent's category-based foreground color when they
don't have their own foreground color. (SF#2930751)
- When there are a lot of old backup files don't clean them up all at once,
but instead a few on each save. (SF#2929692, SF#2929475)
Release 0.78.0 - January 10, 2010
This release adds configurable fonts and foreground colors, enhances the
reminder dialog, makes other small changes and fixes some bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- Make file locking work on Windows computers that have a hostname with non-
ASCII characters in it. (SF#2904864)
- Avoid deploying UxTheme.dll because it causes problems on 64-bits Windows
systems. (SF#2911280, SF#2897639, SF#2886396)
- Correctly refresh task square map and task time line viewers after stopping
effort tracking, i.e. stop showing the clock icon on the previously tracked
task.
- When maximizing and restoring panes (viewers), don't change the order.
(SF#2922952)
- Slightly faster redrawing of task viewers after sorting or filtering.
- In some circumstances, synchronization with an iPhone/iPod Touch device
would crash the app. (SF#2925618)
Features added:
- Tasks, categories, notes and attachment can have their own font. Tasks,
notes and attachments that don't have their own font use the font of the
categories they belong to. Effort records use the font of the task they
belong to.
- In addition to the background color, the foreground (text) color of tasks,
categories, notes and attachments can now also be changed. Tasks, notes and
attachments that don't have their own foreground color use the foreground
color of the categories they belong to. Effort records use the foreground
color of the task they belong to.
- Added Ctrl+E keyboard shortcut to "New effort..." menu item.
- Reminder dialogs have an extra button to mark the task completed.
(http://uservoice.com/a/5HVq3)
- The snooze times offered by the reminder dialog can be configured via the
preferences dialog.
Features changed:
- Task Coach now limits the number of backups made of a task file. The number
of backups retained increases logarithmically with the age of the oldest
backup of the task file. When Task Coach needs to remove a backup it tries
to keep the remaining backups spread evenly across time.
(http://uservoice.com/a/5FrtF)
- Merged the four menu items for exporting tasks and effort to iCalendar and
vCalendar formats into two menu items.
Release 0.77.0 - December 6, 2009
This release adds mutually exclusive categories and fixes some bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- Only the first reminder defined in a session would be fired. (SF#2901254)
- Don't start in-line editing of subjects when an item is double clicked.
Properly close the subject edit text control, e.g. when sort order is
changed. (SF#2896654, SF#2899913)
- Don't open effort viewer contex (right-click) menu twice on every right-
click. (SF#2902389)
Features added:
- Categories can have mutually exclusive subcategories. This makes it easier
to e.g. create your own statuses or to keep track of which task was assigned
to whom. (http://uservoice.com/a/tvOIS)
- F2 can be used to start in-line editing of the subject of a task, category
or note. (http://uservoice.com/a/9pLUT)
- Added partial Mongolian translation.
Release 0.76.1 - November 13, 2009
This release adds Growl support on Mac OS X, and fixes some bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- The notes and attachment columns were not properly refreshed after removing
the last note or attachment. (SF#2894530)
- Reminders would randomly not work. (SF#2888688)
- Recurrence frequency would be reset to zero when edited. (SF#2895085)
- Instead of the whole description, show only the first few lines of
descriptions in the description column of task, note, and category viewers.
Features added:
- On Mac OS X, you can optionally choose to use Growl for reminders. When
enabled, this disables two other features: snooze/don't snooze and open task
on reminder.
- Added back the possibility to hide active tasks so that people can have a
task viewer that only displays completed tasks.
(http://uservoice.com/a/NQCUV)
Release 0.76.0 - November 7, 2009
This release adds buttons on the toolbar of task viewers to hide completed
and/or future tasks, makes subjects editable in-line, removes a couple of
silly features, and fixes some bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- Iterating over viewers wasn't working in tabbed mode.
- When merging a task file with categories, don't break the links between
tasks/notes and categories. (SF#2882493)
- Tree viewers wouldn't properly refresh when an attribute of a task,
category, or note was changed to be empty. (SF#2806354)
- When tracking effort, effort viewers in aggregated mode (showing effort per
day/week/month) were not being updated every second.
- Tabs in the tabbed window layout could not be closed.
- Don't complain when the system locale has a thousands separator that
consists of more than one character. (SF#2889931, SF#2888714)
Features added:
- Task viewers now have buttons on the toolbar to hide or show completed
and/or inactive (future) tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/EfkNL)
- Subjects of tasks, notes and categories can be edited in-line by clicking
the subject of a selected item.
Features removed:
- Don't have a setting for the maximum number of recent files to show, simply
use some reasonable maximum (9).
- It's no longer possible to hide active tasks, over budget tasks, and
overdue tasks. These filters were silly.
Release 0.75.0 - October 24, 2009
This release adds percentage complete tracking for tasks, a PortableApps
version of Task Coach and some minor features and bug fixes.
Bugs fixed:
- Make opening (task) edit dialogs faster. (SF#2884522)
- Use 'now' as default time in effort dialogs on Mac OS X instead of
'0:00:00'. (SF#2874824)
Features added:
- Tasks have a percentage complete property. (http://uservoice.com/a/Icogx)
- Double clicking the task bar icon will iconize the main window when it is
visible and restore it when iconized (Mac OS X and Windows).
(http://uservoice.com/a/dKfBt)
- When browsing for an attachment, start in the current attachment directory.
- Under Windows, prevent users from deleting temporary files and thus loosing
all their e-mail attachments.
Distribution changed:
- Added a PortableApps version of Task Coach to the set of available
distributions.
Release 0.74.4 - October 17, 2009
This is a bugfix release that fixes some user interface bugs, most notably
that entering dates with the keyboard was not working on Mac OS X and Linux.
Bugs fixed:
- Typing in time controls (effort start and stop, reminder) didn't work on Mac
OS X. (SF#2798239)
- Prevent the locked file dialog and the new version notification dialog of
blocking each other on Mac OS X.
- When using the context menu of a selected effort record to create a new
effort record use the task of the selected effort record as task of the new
effort record as well. (SF#2873933)
- After expanding all items (Shift+Ctrl+E), keep items expanded even when sort
order changes or tasks are completed. (SF#2841854)
- The "Open all attachments" menu item was always disabled. (SF#2874180)
- When sorting tasks and notes by their categories use the recursive subjects
(e.g. 'Parent -> Child') of the categories to sort by. Previous versions
would only use the 'Child' part. (SF#2874153)
- Remove double slash ('//') from URL used in Windows installer. (SF#2877126)
- On Linux and Mac OS X, changing dates by typing a new date (i.e. not using
the dropdown menu) didn't work. (SF#2874408, SF#2867623)
Release 0.74.3 - October 4, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Exporting and printing, including displaying the print preview, is now much
faster.
- Drag and drop wasn't working.
- Starting or stopping effort tracking for a selected task would cause the
task to be unselected. (SF#2869959)
- Don't show effort records twice in the effort viewer after deleting or
dragging and dropping a task. (SF#2869520, SF#2859882)
- Fix printing of non-task viewers. (SF#2871365)
- Task Coach wouldn't start when using the tabbed main window mode on Mac OS
X. (SF#2867585)
Release 0.74.2 - September 25, 2009
This is a bugfix release that fixes several minor bugs and increases
performance.
Bugs fixed:
- iPhone synchronization: when doing a full refresh from desktop, categories
parents could be mismatched.
- A bug in the task filter would cause tasks to be shown that were supposed to
be hidden. (SF#2841854)
- The filter submenu would sometimes be in the wrong state (enabled or
disabled).
- On Linux, locking two task files in the same folder, e.g. when merging,
would make Task Coach think that its task file was locked by another
instance of Task Coach. (SF#2852216)
- Performance improvements. Task Coach still isn't super fast, but at least
performance should be a bit better now. (SF#2807678, SF#2683002)
Features added:
- Add an option to avoid uploading completed tasks to the iPhone/iPod Touch
when synchronizing. For people who hide completed tasks, this can make the
synchronization much quicker.
- Under MS Windows, the task template directory may now be a shortcut to
another directory.
- In the attachment viewer, display a red icon for files attachments when the
file does not exist. Also prevent the user from trying to open it.
Feature removed:
- Removed the Edit->Select->Invert selection menu item since it was very slow
and not very useful.
Release 0.74.1 - August 22, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Printing didn't work. (SF#2840010)
- Prevent exception when locking a file on a machine with a hostname
containing non-ascii characters. (SF#2835047)
- Make the winPenPack portable app start in English by default.
- Drag and drop from Thunderbird would not work if the storage directory
wasn't the default. (SF#2840460)
- Expand parent item when adding a sub item.
Feature added:
- Drag and drop from Thunderbird now works with multiple accounts in the
default profile.
Release 0.74.0 - August 16, 2009
This release adds better HTML export, a winPenPack version of Task Coach, and
fixes some bugs. Task Coach now uses Uservoice.com for feature requests.
Bugs fixed:
- Avoid nested syncml tags in the XML task file (SF#2832062, SF#2813816)
- Some macro's (e.g. "%(name)s") in the help text were not properly expanded.
(SF#2833904, SF#2833903)
- Translate tip window and search controls on Windows. (SF#2825463)
Features added:
- When exporting data to an HTML file, Task Coach writes a simple CSS
stylesheet alongside it. The CSS stylesheet can be edited by the user using
a text editor; Task Coach won't overwrite it.
- Tasks that are due soon are colored orange. How many days left is to be
considered 'soon' can now be set via the preferences dialog, in the task
behavior tab. (SF#1312000)
Distribution changed:
- Added a winPackPen (http://www.winpackpen.com) portable package to the set
of available distributions.
Website change:
- We're now using http://taskcoach.uservoice.com for feature requests. The
big advantage of Uservoice over the Sourceforge feature request tracker is
that Uservoice allows for voting. Because we have over 250 open feature
requests on Sourceforge, it is not possible for us to move all feature
requests ourselves. People that submitted a feature request on Sourceforge
will receive a notification and a request to help us move their request(s)
to Uservoice. (index.html)
Release 0.73.4 - August 6, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Prevent text in right-aligned columns, like dates in the task viewer, to be
partially cut off. (SF#2806466)
- Don't crash when a template task has an empty subject. (SF#2831233)
- Always show the correct 'mark task (un)completed' bitmap in the task
context menu. (SF#2830125)
- The GUI would always display English, instead of the language set via the
preference dialog or specified on the command line. (SF#2831534)
Release 0.73.3 - August 2, 2009
This release fixes some bugs, and adds support for synchronizing with the next
version of the iPhone app (1.1).
Bugs fixed:
- Opening the task menu in the main menu bar while a category viewer was
active would result in exceptions. (SF#2818254)
- The time control in the effort editor was too narrow (SF#2790805)
- Link to http://www.cygwin.com on the website had a typo. (SF#2819702)
- The context menu key didn't work. (SF#2807326)
- With SyncML enabled, tasks deleted on the desktop would still show up on
the iPhone/iPod Touch.
- Translate tip window controls, search controls, and viewer titles.
(SF#2825463, SF#2825222)
- Prevent exception when opening a new viewer. (SF#2825222)
- Don't fail silently when something goes wrong while opening an attachment.
(SF#2826178)
Features added:
- Specify which language to use on the command line. Type "taskcoach[.py|.exe]
--help" on the command line for more information.
- Load a .po file (a file containing translations) with a command line
option. Type "taskcoach[.py|.exe] --help" on the command line for more
information. This option allows translators to check their work more
easily. (SF#1599933)
- Synchronizing with the next version for the iPhone (1.1) is now supported
(one can edit a task's categories from the device).
Release 0.73.2 - July 8, 2009
This release fixes some bugs, and adds synchronization with the iPhone version
now available on the AppStore.
Bugs fixed:
- Export of selected effort to a CSV-file would result in an empty file.
(SF#2810978)
- Fix a crash when creating/editing tasks for non-english locales.
(SF#2817287, SF#2817335, SF#2812005)
Feature added:
- Two-way synchronization with Task Coach for the iPhone. (SF#2042153,
SF#2722216)
Release 0.73.1 - June 24, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Dates and amounts were not localized. (SF#2806189, SF#1625111, SF#1790055)
- Use folder icons for tasks with subtasks in the task viewer. (SF#2806191)
- Export of selected effort to a CSV-file would result in an empty file.
(SF#2806383, SF#2807003, SF#2810978)
Release 0.73.0 - June 12, 2009
This release adds a timeline viewer, the ability to search item descriptions,
total-per-period information in the effort viewer, and easier category
manipulation.
Features added:
- Added a timeline viewer that shows tasks and efforts on a horizontal time
scale. (SF#2533644, SF#1230080)
- When an effort viewer is displaying effort per day, week, or month, a total
line is shown for each period. (SF#1962219)
- The search control in the toolbar of viewers now includes an option to
search descriptions too. (SF#1816660, SF#2020347, SF#2157010, SF#2510045)
- Add or remove tasks and notes from categories using the task and note menus
in the menubar or the right-click popup menu for tasks and notes.
(SF#1931323, SF#2011031, SF#1918685)
- Added largely incomplete Bosnian and Basque translations. Please help make
these translations complete. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html.
Release 0.72.10 - June 9, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- When opening a task edit dialog, the priority field would not show the
priority until the up or down button was clicked (Mac OS X only).
- When opening a locked file, Task Coach would hang (Mac OS X only).
- Require wxPython 2.8.9.1 instead of 2.8.9.2 in the Debian package file
(.deb) because Ubuntu 9.04 is still shipping 2.8.9.1 (Ubuntu only).
(SF#2798457)
- Fix drag and drop from Outlook (Windows only). (SF#2803013)
- When logging off or shutting down the computer save unsaved changes (Linux
only).
- When using SyncML the task file could get corrupted.
Release 0.72.9 - May 28, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't throw an exception when exporting an active effort record to iCal
format.
- Refuse to open task files that have a different format because they are
created by a newer version of Task Coach than the one the user is using.
- Updating menu items would trigger exceptions after closing a (task) viewer.
- After merging, Task Coach would display the wrong filename in the window
title.
- Smaller task edit dialog to cater for lower resolution screens.
(SF#2214687)
- Dragging email from a Thunderbird client that uses Gmail as IMAP server
didn't work.
- When the SyncML feature is turned on, Task Coach would show deleted tasks
in the drop down menu of the start effort tracking button on the toolbar
and it would show effort for deleted tasks in the effort viewer.
(SF#2679544, SF#2214043)
Features added:
- All export options can now also export selected items only.
- Put line breaks in the XML so that task files are easier to examine in a
text editor. (SF#1277365)
Release 0.72.8 - May 17, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Drag and drop from Thunderbird would not work on Debian-derived
distributions. (SF#2790274)
- Work around a bug in wxPython 2.8.9.2 on Mac OS X that prevented dialogs to
be opened for items that have a color set. (SF#2789977)
- Draw check boxes instead of black squares in the category viewer on Windows
XP and Vista with the classic theme.
- The background of check boxes were corrupted under Linux.
- Double clicking an item in a specific column wouldn't select the
appropriate tab in the dialog. (SF#2791100)
- Reduce flickering when tracking effort for a task.
- Opening a task file with e-mail attachments not specifying their encoding on
a different system than the one the task file was created could fail.
- Couldn't add effort to a freshly created task.
Feature added:
- Use the settings for effort dialog start and stop times for the reminder
drop down as well. (SF#2792160)
Dependency changed:
- Task Coach now at least needs wxPython 2.8.9.2-unicode. Since the Windows
installer and the Mac OS X dmg package have wxPython included, this only
affects users of the RPM, Debian, and source distributions.
Release 0.72.7 - May 10, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Support locking of task files on USB sticks/drives that have a different
file system than the host system has. (SF#2776249)
- Task Coach would sometimes crash when dragging a task onto another task on
Windows. Fixed by using a different widget for tree-list controls.
(SF#2573263, SF#1995248, SF#2247808, SF#1963262)
Feature added:
- The category viewer can show additional columns (description, attachment,
...) besides just the subject of categories. This is a side effect of the
fix for the drag and drop issues.
Website changes:
- Follow Task Coach on twitter: http://twitter.com/taskcoach. The latest
tweets are also listed on http://www.taskcoach.org. (index.html)
- Added Google Ads to generate additional revenue to cover the cost of
hardware and commercial operating systems. (index.html)
Release 0.72.6 - April 18, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach couldn't be installed using EasyInstall.
- Task Coach couldn't be installed on Linux systems that have 2.6 as their
default Python version. Task Coach currently needs Python 2.5. Fixed by
forcing an install for Python 2.5 on all Linux systems when installing from
a RPM or Debian package. (SF#2724839)
- The lockfile package used for file locking had a bug when used with Python
2.6. Fixed by upgrading the lockfile package to version 0.8. (SF#2761466)
- Task Coach would sometimes crash when dragging a task onto another task on
Windows. (SF#2573263, SF#1995248)
Release 0.72.5 - April 5, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bug fixed:
- Include the lockfile package in the distributions.
Release 0.72.4 - April 5, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- When exporting effort to iCalendar format, use 'floating times' rather than
UTC. (SF#2722224)
- Lock a task file while the user is working on it. Note that locks are only
honored by Task Coach itself; locked files can still be removed using a
file explorer. (SF#2318647, SF#2236420)
- Fail silently if checking for the availability of a new Task Coach version
doesn't work for some reason. (SF#2669995)
- Don't open the category edit dialog when the user double clicks a category
check box. (SF#2685754)
- In the budget page of the task edit dialog, make sure that selected values
can be overwritten. (SF#2654254)
- Make the Debian package work with python versions >= 2.5 (but smaller than
python 3.0). (SF#2724839)
Release 0.72.3 - March 13, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't turn on the color selection in the task edit dialog when the task
color is based on the category it belongs to.
- Make it easier to edit budget values in the task edit dialog. (SF#2654254)
- Fix regression caused by the saving of print margins added in release
0.72.2. (SF#2632431)
Release 0.72.2 - March 11, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Support drag and drop from Thunderbird Portable under Windows (SF#2665317)
- Correctly read task files with version <= 13 (Task Coach release 0.57 and
earlier) that contain categories.
- When a subtask belongs to a category with color, use that color to color
the subtask, rather than the color of the parent task.
- Save print margins in the TaskCoach.ini file. (SF#2632431)
Release 0.72.1 - February 14, 2009
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Drag and drop from Thunderbird wouldn't work with GMail IMAP accounts.
(SF#2549194)
- Exception when synchronizing with the new version of ScheduleWorld.
(SF#2553046)
- On MacOS, the window height would increase by 29 pixels each time Task Coach
was launched.
- Exporting a selection of effort records resulted in an empty HTML file.
- Opening a task from a reminder dialog didn't work. (SF#2580772)
- Include effort for subtasks in the effort viewer for one task.
- Correctly display error message when the user enters an invalid regular
expression in a search control.
- Update the task square map viewer when the task status changes (e.g. when a
task is completed).
- When SyncML is enabled and the last subtask of a task is deleted, correctly
update the icon in the task viewer.
Features added:
- When the single task, whose effort records are shown in a single task effort
viewer, is removed, the effort viewer resets to show all effort records of
all tasks.
- Tool tips for task square map viewer.
Release 0.72.0 - January 30, 2009
This release adds a square map task viewer and a single-task effort viewer.
This release also fixes a few bugs and adds a few smaller feature
enhancements.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't crash when adding a task. (SF#2467347)
- Update the total fixed fee column in the task viewer when adding a subtask
with a fixed fee.
- Mark task file dirty when the user edits a task color.
- Update the hourly fee column in the task viewer when the the user edits the
hourly fee of a task.
- Make it possible to add an effort record to a new task.
- When opening all attachments of an item, give an error message for each
attachment that cannot be opened.
Features added:
- One can now export only the current selection as HTML.
- When using yearly recurrence of tasks, allow for keeping the recurring date
on the same weekday (e.g. to recur on the first Monday of the year).
(SF#2164568)
- Added a square map viewer for tasks that displays tasks in the form of a
set of nested squares. The relative size of the squares is determined by
either budget, budget left, time spent, fixed fee or revenue.
- One can now open an effort viewer for a specific task.
- Added (incomplete) Hindi and German (Low) translations.
Release 0.71.5 - December 24, 2008
This release adds one usability enhancement and a few bug fixes.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't wake up every second just to keep track of reminders and midnight.
- Hide main window after showing reminder dialog when it was hidden before.
(SF#2372909)
- When marking a recurring task completed, recur its reminder too, if any.
(SF#2376415)
- Refresh task status at midnight. (SF#2095205)
- Fix tab traversal in the effort editor on Linux. (SF#1965751)
Feature added:
- When double clicking an item in a viewer, open the editor on the right page,
depending on the column clicked. For example, when clicking on the due date
column in a task viewer, Task Coach will open the task editor with the dates
page raised. Patch provided by Carl Zmola.
Release 0.71.4 - December 6, 2008
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Opening an old .tsk file with missing e-mail attachments would crash Task
Coach.
- Don't throw exception when showing an (error) message while synchronizing.
(SF#2356799)
- When merging from the same file multiple times, update the existing items
instead of duplicating them. (SF#2062616)
- Don't set negative priorities to zero in the task editor (Linux only).
(SF#2324869)
- Save the column width of the first column when automatic resizing of
columns is off. (SF#2255690)
- Actually delete tasks and notes when SyncML is disabled. (SF#2319921)
- Do not create subitems in two steps, this is counter intuitive.
- Properly iterate over the open viewers with Ctrl-PgDn and Ctrl-PgUp.
(SF#1973357)
- Update the task viewer when a note is deleted from a task. (SF#2277217)
- Update the tray icon tool tip when deleting an overdue task. (SF#2321351)
- Wrap long lines in description tool tip windows. (SF#2318094)
Feature added:
- Add a "Purge deleted items" entry in the File menu for people who have been
using Task Coach with SyncML disabled.
Release 0.71.3 - November 10, 2008
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Spell checking in editor didn't work under Mac OS X. (SF#2214676)
- Dropping a mail with several recipients from Outlook would result in a "No
subject" subject. (SF#2220224)
- A ghost window would appear on the secondary display under Mac OS X if it's
placed on the right. (SF#2206656)
- The note total would include deleted notes. (SF#2209640)
- Don't hang when exiting the application. (SF#2185910, SF#2209679)
- Don't show all effort in the effort tab of a task editor, but only effort
for the task being edited. (SF#2207166)
- Fix for a backwards incompatible change in python 2.6. (SF#2212857)
- Update task details at midnight, even when Task Coach is not active at
precisely midnight. (SF#2095205, SF#2061826)
- Allow for empty task subjects. (SF#2214812)
- Make the drop down button for picking dates look disabled when it is
disabled. (SF#2214706)
Release 0.71.2 - October 24, 2008
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- The reminder dialog didn't work. (SF#2168756)
- One couldn't add an URI attachment "by hand". (SF#2167705)
- The combobox with tasks in the effort editor wouldn't always be properly
filled, making it impossible to edit the effort record. (SF#2167798,
SF#2173127)
- Warn the user when the task file cannot be saved. (SF#2121470)
- Warn the user when the TaskCoach.ini file cannot be loaded. (SF#2101765)
- When saving selected tasks, also include any categories the selected tasks
are in.
- The right-click menu item 'Start tracking effort' wouldn't work for
recurring tasks. (SF#2165652)
Features added:
- The SyncML password dialog now has a more specific title. (SF#2176781)
- The system tray popup menu now has a 'New note' menu item. (SF#2182735)
Release 0.71.1 - October 13, 2008
This is a bugfix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Older task files containing e-mail attachments could not be opened.
- Newly created templates would not appear in the Task menu, only in the
toolbar template button.
- Installing from source wouldn't work on platforms where pysyncml is not
supported. (SF#2164313)
- The installers for Mac OS X and Windows for release 0.71.0 were missing some
files, causing Task Coach not to be able to save. (SF#2162181)
Release 0.71.0 - October 12, 2008
This release adds task and note synchronization, task templates, more task
recurrence options, more translations and a whole bunch of smaller
enhancements.
Bugs fixed:
- Undo would not work well when creating notes in a category or task.
- An IndexError would be raised when undoing then editing.
- Ctrl-PgDn and Ctrl-PgUp would sometimes need to be pressed multiple times
before the next or previous viewer would be activated.
Features added:
- E-mail attachments are now stored directly in the task file.
- Tasks and notes can now be synchronized with a Funambol server
(http://www.funambol.com/). (SF#2006123, SF#1892874)
- Tasks can now be saved and reused as templates. (SF#1851847, SF#1549002,
SF#1484368, SF#1601869)
- Attachments are now regular domain objects; they may have notes.
- The task and note editors now use an actual category viewer. It is possible
to create and edit categories from these editors.
- The description tooltip now works for efforts and categories. It also
contains a summary of notes and attachments belonging to the hovered object.
(SF#1642608, SF#1917999)
- More task recurrence options. Tasks can now also recur yearly, in addition
to daily, weekly, and monthly. Tasks can also recur with a multiple period
frequency, e.g. every other week or every three months. Monthly recurring
tasks can be set to recur on the same week day (e.g. first Monday of the
month). (SF#1963803, SF#1917090, SF#1913656, SF#2076511)
- The times used in the drop down menus of the start and stop entries of the
effort dialog can now be changed via the preferences dialog. Patch supplied
by Rob McMullen.
- The effort tracking feature can be turned off via the preferences dialog.
- The system tray icon shows the task being tracked in its tool tip. Patch
provided by João Alexandre de Toledo.
- Categories and notes can have attachments.
- Tasks and categories can contain notes. (SF#1954879, SF#2140239,
SF#1525434)
- The four different effort viewers are integrated in one viewer that can
switch between different effort aggregation modes, i.e. details, per day,
per week and per month, via the toolbar.
- The two different task viewers are integrated in one viewer that can switch
between list and tree mode, via the toolbar.
- Category filtering is done either by showing tasks and notes that match any
category or that match all categories. This filtering mode can be switched
via the toolbar of the category viewer. (SF#2024510)
- The effort background is now colored with the same color as the task it
belongs to.
- The effort viewer can show the (overall) categories of the task of each
effort in an (overall) categories column. Patch provided by Thomas Sonne
Olesen. (SF#1911052, SF#1791670)
- When the effort viewer is in weekly mode, it can show effort per weekday.
Patch provided by Thomas Sonne Olesen.
- The automatic resizing of columns can be turned off on a viewer by viewer
basis, using the 'Automatic column resizing' checkable menu item in the
View->Columns menu and/or in the column header right-click menu.
(SF#2047851, SF#1466164)
- The expansion state of tasks, categories and notes is saved in the task
file. (SF#2045453, SF#1790057)
- Added Catalan translation thanks to Ferran Roig, Jordi Mallach, Josep-Miquel
Ivars, and devaleitzer.
- Added an (incomplete) Arabic translation thanks to Moayyed. Please help
finish it. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html.
- Added largely incomplete Esperanto, Estonian, Indonesian, Marathi,
Lithuanian, Norwegion Nynorsk, Slovenian, Telugu, and Vietnamese
translations. Please help finish them. See
http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html.
Implementation changed:
- The task file format (version 20) was changed. Task nodes may have a
recurrence node that contains the recurrence state of the task. Categories
and notes can contain attachments. Tasks and categories can now contain
notes.
Release 0.70.4 - September 28, 2008
Bug fix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Allow Task Coach to be installed on Ubuntu 7.10. (SF#2117477)
- Task Coach wasn't notifying users of new versions.
- When merging, merge notes too.
- When the notes feature is turned off, hide the 'Create new note' menu item
in the category pop up menu.
- Fixed a translation bug. (SF#2087395)
- Hide/show the main window with one click on the task bar icon instead of a
double click (Linux only).
- The Task Coach main window would get a very small size if it was started
minimized and had not been restored in the previous session. (SF#2052910)
Release 0.70.3 - August 17, 2008
Bug fix release.
Bugs fixed:
- wxPython 2.8.8.1 generates images in a new, backwards incompatible way,
even when told not to do that. This bug affects users that have an older
version of wxPython installed and use one of the Linux packages. Fixed by
adding the relevant pieces from wxPython 2.8.8.1 to the Task Coach sources.
(SF#2046084)
- Opening a new task viewer didn't work. (SF#2053008)
- Closing effort viewers causes exceptions. (SF#2053008)
Release 0.70.2 - August 6, 2008
This release fixes some bugs and brings back the Fedora RPM.
Bugs fixed:
- Using the "Save selection" feature together with mail attachments could
result in data loss.
- Under KDE, the maximized state of the main window would not be restored.
- One couldn't e-mail tasks with non-ASCII characters in their description.
(SF#2025676)
- Dragging an email message from Thunderbird and dropping it on Task Coach
could give a "UnicodeDecodeError" on Fedora. (SF#1953166)
- When an invalid regular expression was entered in a search control, no items
were displayed. Additionally, if it was saved in TaskCoach.ini, TaskCoach
would crash on launch later.
- Mention of non-existing files in taskcoach.spec prevented the Fedora RPM
from being built.
- The category viewer would sometimes skip keyboard navigation or need an
extra mouse-click to get focus. (SF#2020816, SF#2020812)
- On Mac OS X, the keyboard shortcut for 'help' was interfering with the
shortcut for 'hide window'. (SF#2006455)
Features added:
- Notes can be e-mailed.
- Display a tool tip to warn user when a search string is an invalid regular
expression. In this case, default to substring search.
- Optionally put Task Coach in the user's startup menu so that Task Coach is
started automatically when the user logs on (Windows only). (SF#2017400,
SF#1913650)
- Made (right-click) context menu's more consistent.
Feature removed:
- Don't supply the dummy recipient 'Please enter recipient' to the email
program when mailing a task. This only forces users to perform an extra
action to remove that dummy text, while most if not all email programs will
warn users when they forget to enter a recipient. (SF#2026833)
Release 0.70.1 - June 28, 2008
This release optionally brings back the tabbed user interface that was
removed in the previous release and fixes a few bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- The search control in the toolbar did not maintain state correctly for
different viewers. Task Coach viewers now each have their own toolbar with
search control. (SF#1977196)
- Marking tasks completed or changing their priority would change the
selection. (SF#1888598, SF#1926362)
- On Max OS X, put preferences menu item in the TaskCoach menu instead of the
Edit menu to conform with Mac OS X standards. (SF#1965861)
- Focus issues: On Mac OS X, text couldn't be edited while the timer was
running. On Windows, notifications from other programs overlapping with the
main window would take away focus from dialogs. (SF#1995469, SF#2000152)
- Prevent crash under Windows XP when dropping e-mail from Thunderbird if the
APPDATA environment variable is not defined. (SF#1960827)
- ImportError: No module named thirdparty.ElementTree. This exception would
happen when using a source distribution of Task Coach or a package (rpm,
deb) for Linux *and* when the default version of Python on the system is
Python 2.4. Task Coach tried to import a module from the wrong package.
(SF#1964069)
- On Linux, when using a dark theme, use appropriate background colors for
the category viewer and the text color buttons in the preferences dialog.
(SF#1988160)
- Remember whether the main window was maximized and if so, maximize the main
window when starting the next time. (SF#1969266)
- Correctly sort tasks on startup when sort column is 'Overall categories'.
(SF#1962003)
- Correctly redraw toolbar when it is 'damaged' by other windows (SF#1977208)
- Correctly sort effort for subtasks in effort per day, per week, and per
month effort viewers. (SF#1989553)
- Better navigation with tab key in dialogs.
- Keep newlines in descriptions when printing or exporting to HTML.
Feature added:
- Task Coach can now use either the old tabbed user interface (whose layout
still cannot be saved, by the way) or the 'managed frame' interface
introduced in release 0.70.0. This can be changed in the Preferences dialog.
(SF#1964213)
Release 0.70.0 - May 12, 2008
Small feature enhancements, more translations and several bug fixes. Task
Coach is now distributed under the GPLv3+.
Bugs fixed:
- Allow for editing seconds in effort editor. (SF#1925748)
- The combobox in the effort detail editor always picked the first task when
multiple tasks had the same subject, effectively prohibiting the user to
move an effort record to another task with the same subject. (SF#1918033)
- Reset invalid input in the priority field of the task editor to 0 instead of
to the minimum priority (a large negative value). (SF#1949222)
- "View->Filter->Reset all filters" now also unchecks all categories.
- Task Coach now is packaged as a proper Debian package, thanks to Stani
Michiels. The Debian package installs a menu item for Task Coach in the
Applications/Office menu. (SF#1792706, SF#1792711, SF#1896796)
Features added:
- Paths to file attachments may be relative.
- Monthly recurrence of tasks. (SF#1933222, SF#1957687)
- Added and reorganized keyboard short cuts. (SF#1857101)
- Start tracking effort for any active task using the system tray icon right-
click menu. (SF#1934738, SF#1739666)
- Added a largely complete Ukranian translation thanks to Vitovt and
incomplete Finnish, Greek, Persian and Thai translations.
Feature changed:
- Slightly higher preference window so all icons fit and no scrolling is
needed. (SF#1918678)
Dependencies changed:
- Task Coach now uses Subversion for version control. See
http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=130831. This only affects you if you
want to develop or use Task Coach source code.
- Task Coach is now distributed under the GNU General Public License version
3 or (at your option) any later version. This only affects you if you want
to distribute changed versions of Task Coach or want to include source code
from Task Coach in other software.
Release 0.69.2 - March 28, 2008
Bug fix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Tasks created via the context menu of the category view now automatically
belong to the selected category. (SF#1592103)
- Update task status and colors at midnight. (SF#1183043)
- Exception when starting Task Coach ("AttributeError: 'CategoryList' object
has no attribute 'EventTypePrefix'"). (SF#1901385)
- Exception when reopening a closed viewer (with the message
"ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'effortperdayviewer1'" in the log
file). (SF#1894488)
- Exception when resetting all filters in the task tree viewer (with the
message "No option 'hidecompositetasks' in section: 'tasktreelistview'" in
the log file). (SF#1903679)
- Don't take the priority of completed subtasks into account when calculating
the overall priority of a task. (SF#1905774)
- It was not clear that backup files can be opened in Task Coach. Backup files
now have the extension '.tsk.bak'. The file open dialog has '*.tsk.bak' as
selectable file type to make it easier to open backup files. (SF#1911538)
- Exception when opening the task menu while the toolbar is hidden.
Features added:
- Task Coach now suggests a reminder date, based on the due date or start date
of a task.
- Added a complete Norwegion Bokmal translation thanks to Amund Amundsen and
incomplete Galician, Korean and Romanian translations.
Release 0.69.1 - February 14, 2008
Bug fix release.
Bugs fixed:
- Exception when closing a task editor dialog. This causes updates of task
states not to be displayed properly. The bug itself does not cause data
loss, but it might trick users into saving an empty task file over their
existing data. (SF#1893634)
- On Mac OS X, users couldn't enter 'P' and 'M' in text boxes, because these
were mapped to menu items. Reorganized keyboard shortcuts to fix this.
(SF#1890566)
- The arrow ('ââ â') and infinity symbol ('âËž') are not visible on
all computers, so Task Coach is back to using '->' and 'Infinite' again.
Release 0.69.0 - February 9, 2008
This release makes it possible to repeat tasks on either a daily or a weekly
basis and to add notes to categories. It also contains a number of other
changes and bug fixes.
Bugs fixed:
- The reminder dialog didn't close when opening the task from the reminder
dialog. If the user had entered a snooze option in the reminder dialog, that
snooze option would be overwritten when closing the task editor.
(SF#1862286)
- Don't allow filtering by both a parent and a child category at the same
time.
- Sorting by total categories in the task viewers didn't sort correctly.
- Save didn't work for task files without a file name and without tasks, but
with categories or notes.
- Adding a task to a category or removing it from a category was not undoable.
Features added:
- Tasks can recur on a daily or weekly basis. This feature is not complete
yet. Most obviously, recurring on a monthly basis is missing. Also,
recurring tasks with recurring subtasks do not behave entirely correctly
yet. (SF#1623364, SF#1464793, SF#1264210)
- Notes can be assigned to categories.
- Added Bulgarian translation, thanks to Rumen Belev.
- Added Danish translation, thanks to different translators.
- Added a number of rather incomplete translations (Italian, Portuguese,
Swedish, and Turkish). See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html for how you
can help improve these translations.
- When filtering by one or more categories, new tasks and notes are
automatically added to those categories. Of course, you can still change the
categories in the category tab of the edit dialog before pressing the OK
button.
- Whether descriptions of tasks, effort records, categories and notes are
shown in a popup tooltip window is now a setting. (SF#1857098)
- Added menu items for increasing, decreasing, maximizing, and minimizing
task priority. (SF#1768210, SF#1570616)
- Clicking a column header in a task viewer now iterates through the following
sort orders: 'ascending, after sorting by task status first', 'descending,
after sorting by task status first', 'ascending, without sorting by task
status first', 'descending, without sorting by task status first'.
Features changed:
- Previously, unset dates were displayed as 'None' in date columns. To be
consistent with how other attributes are displayed in columns, Task Coach
now simply displays nothing for unset dates in date columns.
- Task Coach now uses the infinity symbol ('âËž') to display the number of
days left for tasks without a due date, instead of the word 'Infinite'.
- Task Coach now uses a real arrow symbol ('ââ â') instead of '->' for
separating parent and child subjects in the different viewers.
Feature removed:
- Task Coach no longer keeps track of the 'last modification time' of tasks.
Release 0.68.0 - December 26, 2007
This release makes it possible to open a task from its reminder dialog, adds a
command line option to facilitate the PortableApps.com Task Coach
distribution, makes starting and stopping effort tracking quicker and fixes a
number of bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- Start and stop tracking effort is faster for tasks that have a large number
of associated effort records.
- Task Coach now gives an error message if the file that it tries to open
doesn't exist. (SF#1857093)
- When selecting all text in a text control with '<cmd>a', indeed select all
text and not all tasks (Max OSX only). (SF#1857091)
- Attempt to prevent crashes on Fedora 8 that sometimes happen when adding top
level tasks. (SF#1840111)
Features added:
- It is possible to open a task from its reminder dialog.
- Task Coach has a --ini command line option that can be used to specify where
the ini file is located.
Release 0.67.0 - December 16, 2007
This release make it possible to color tasks via their categories, adds a
translation in Hebrew, and makes it easier to mark tasks as not completed.
Bug fixed:
- Don't move selection to the first line of the task tree viewer when deleting
a subtask. (SF#1849171)
Features added:
- Added Hebrew translation thanks to Ziv Barcesat.
- You can assign a color to a category. Tasks are colored according to the
color of the categories they belong to. (SF#1466159, SF#1784932)
- The 'mark task completed' button and menu items can now also be used to
mark tasks as not completed. (SF#1449714)
Dependency changed:
- Task Coach now needs at least wxPython 2.8.6.0-unicode. Since the Windows
installer and the Mac OSX dmg package have wxPython included, this only
affects users of the RPM, Debian, and source distributions.
Release 0.66.3 - December 11, 2007
Bug fix release to address crashes.
Bug fixed:
- Work around a bug in the TreeListCtrl widget that caused crashes. The
TreeListCtrl widget is used by Task Coach for the task tree view.
(SF#1846906, SF#1840111, SF#1832490, SF#1829622, SF#1821858, SF#1820497)
Release 0.66.2 - November 9, 2007
Bug fix release to address crashes.
Bug fixed:
- Don't crash when refreshing a tree view. (SF#1828846)
Release 0.66.1 - November 7, 2007
This release fixes a number of minor bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- When changing the sort order in a tree viewer, keep collapsed items
collapsed and expanded items expanded. (SF#1791638)
- Sort categories alphabetically in task editor. (SF#1824180)
- Double clicking a task in the tree view did not open the task edit dialog.
- When filtering on a specific category, a newly added task belonging to that
category was not shown in the task viewers.
Release 0.66.0 - October 31, 2007
Small feature enhancements and a translation in Traditional Chinese.
Bug fixed:
- Make categories and category viewer more robust. (SF#1821776)
Features added:
- Added Traditional Chinese translation thanks to Joey Weng.
- Added an 'overall categories' column that recursively shows the categories
a task belongs to, i.e. its own categories and the categories of its parent
task(s). (SF#1790054)
- Column widths are saved between sessions. (SF#1799998)
- Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown can be used to cycle through open viewers.
(SF#1818428)
Release 0.65.3 - October 20, 2007
This bugfix release fixes one critical bug that affects users on the Windows
platform and several minor bugs that affect users on all platforms.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't leak GDI objects on Windows. (SF#1813632, SF#1811058, SF#1810297,
SF#1806004, SF#1803085)
- Don't notify of new version when the user has just installed that version.
- Mail disappears from Outlook when dropped in TaskCoach. Try to use Outlook
to open mail attachment when it's the "default" mailer. (SF#1812399)
- Mail task doesn't work. (SF#1810356)
- Categories not sorted correctly. (SF#1810469)
Release 0.65.2 - October 8, 2007
This release is aimed at better performance.
Bugs fixed:
- Slow performance. (SF#1806001, SF#1794007)
- Don't require administrator privileges for installation on Windows XP/Vista.
Release 0.65.1 - September 23, 2007
This release fixes one critical bug and two minor bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- Tooltip windows steals keyboard focus on some platforms. (SF#1791627)
- Taskbar icon is not transparent on Linux. (SF#1648082)
- Saving a task file after adding attachments via the 'add attachment' menu or
context menu fails. (SF#1796829)
Release 0.65.0 - September 9, 2007
This release adds the ability to record notes, improves the flexibility of
the different views, and fixes several bugs.
Bugs fixed:
- Made subject column resizable. (SF#1702270, SF#1766664)
- Enable export of data containing non-ASCII characters to CSV. (SF#1753422)
- Don't activate another viewer when another application is minimized (Windows
only). (SF#1765103)
- Outlook 2003 email messages added as attachment couldn't be opened from Task
Coach. (SF#1748738)
- German translation had wrong menu accelerators. (SF#1772019)
- Apply undo/redo/cut/copy/paste actions to text if a text control is visible
and has focus (Mac OSX only) (SF#1768315)
- Added a copy of the ElementTree package to the Task Coach source code, so
the source code distribution of Task Coach works with Python 2.4, without
needing to install ElementTree. (SF#1783575)
Features added:
- Notes. Notes have a subject and an optional description. Notes can be
hierarchical, i.e. notes may contain subnotes. Notes can be sorted and
searched (filtered), printed, and exported. This feature can be turned on or
off via the preferences dialog.
- Categories can be searched (filtered) using the search control on the
toolbar.
- Category sorting can be changed: ascending or descending, case sensitive or
case insensitive.
- Categories can have a description.
- Each viewer/tab has its own settings for sort order and visible columns.
Viewers can be renamed. This makes it possible to e.g. create a 'Todo
today'.
- The search control on the toolbar can (optionally) include subitems in the
search result. This makes it easy to show one task and its subtasks in a
task viewer or show effort for one task and its subtasks in an effort
viewer.
- Added a setting to start Task Coach iconized either always, never, or only
when Task Coach was iconized when last quitted. (SF#1749886)
- Added a setting to turn off spell checking (Mac OSX only) (SF#1768330)
- Added (incomplete) translations in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Latvian and
Polish. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html for more information about
translations and on how you can help.
Release 0.64.2 - June 30, 2007
This release fixes sorting of tasks by priority and makes sure that Task Coach
does not block OS shutdown.
Bugs fixed:
- Don't take child task priority into account when sorting by priority in the
task tree view. (SF#1732968)
- Don't block OS shutdown on Windows. (SF#1735532, SF#1484652, SF#1489870)
Release 0.64.1 - June 10, 2007
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach would complain about an error when closing the application. This
was due to a missing package in the Windows executable distribution.
(SF#1727237)
- On Linux, Task Coach was not very helpful when the taskcoachlib package is
installed for a different python version than the one the user is starting
Task Coach with. (SF#1728485)
Release 0.64.0 - May 28, 2007
Bugs fixed:
- Ubuntu users had to manually install the wxaddons package. This package is
now included in the Task Coach distribution.
- Don't hide the main window when it's iconized by default because on Linux
with some window managers the main window receives minimize events in other
situations as well, most notably when changing virtual desktops. So, to
reduce the chances of confusing new users this option is off by default.
(SF#1721166)
Features added:
- Added Breton translation thanks to Ronan Le Déroff
- Show a tooltip with a task's description when the mouse is hovering over a
task. Patch provided by Jérôme Laheurte. (SF#1642608, SF#1619521,
SF#1578623)
- Allow for dragging emails from Thunderbird and Outlook to the attachment
pane of tasks to create email attachments. Opening an attached email will
open it in the user's default mail program. Patch provided by Jérôme
Laheurte.
Release 0.63.2 - April 20, 2007
Bug fixed:
- Task tree view does not refresh tasks after task editing. (SF#1701368)
Release 0.63.1 - April 16, 2007
Bugs fixed:
- Dropping a file on a task in the tree viewer didn't work.
- Showing the description column in the composite effort viewers (effort per
day, per week, per month) caused exceptions.
- The task tree viewer was trying to update tasks that weren't shown,
resulting in exceptions. (SF#1697568, SF#1697574)
Release 0.63.0 - April 9, 2007
Bugs fixed:
- Cancelling printing would give a 'Task Coach Error'
- Make sure the main window is on a visible display when starting. This is
for laptop users that sometimes extend their desktop to a second display.
(SF#1667120)
- Sort categories alphabetically in the categories viewer. (SF#1694532)
- Filtering a category no longer automatically checks all subcategories.
However, tasks belonging to a subcategory are still filtered (since they
belong to the filtered category via the subcategory).
Features added:
- Export to HTML and printing of tasks colors tasks appropriately.
- Added description columns to the task and effort viewers. Like other
columns, the description column is printed and exported if visible.
- Added reminder column to the task viewers.
Release 0.62.0 - April 1, 2007
Bugs fixed:
- When saving timestamps in a task file, e.g. for effort start and stop times,
microseconds are no longer saved as part of the timestamp. The microseconds
caused problems when importing Task Coach data in Excel. (SF#1660670)
- When exporting tasks to HTML or CSV format from the task tree viewer, child
tasks hidden by a filter would still be exported. (SF#1659307)
Features added:
- Added Slovak translation thanks to Viliam Búr
- Printing a selection is enabled (except on Mac OSX).
- The notebook that contains the different views allows for dragging and
dropping of tabs, enabling you to create almost any layout you like.
Unfortunately, this widget does not yet provide functionality to store the
layout in the TaskCoach.ini file.
- Whether the clock icon in the task bar blinks or not is now a setting (see
Edit -> Preferences -> Window behavior.
- The toolbar buttons for 'new item', 'new sub item', 'edit item' and 'delete
item' now work for tasks, effort records and categories, depending on what
view is active.
- Added a category column for task viewers. (SF#1629283)
- Added an attachment column that shows whether a task has one or more
attachments.
- Added an 'Open all attachments' menu item for tasks
- Added snooze option to reminders.
Feature changed:
- Removed filter sidebar. Filter options previously available on the sidebar
are now available via the search filter on the toolbar, the category tab and
the view menu.
Dependency changed:
- Task Coach now requires wxPython 2.8.3-unicode or newer (this is only
relevant if you use the source distribution).
Release 0.61.6 - January 27, 2007
Bugs fixed:
- Crash on trying to use down-arrow to move to sub-task. (SF#1640806)
- When deleting a task that has subtasks that belong to categories, the task
file gets 'corrupted', giving errors when loading it. (SF#1638419,
SF#1589993)
Release 0.61.5 - January 10, 2007
Bug fixed:
- Opening a Task Coach file with many effort records is slow. Opening an edit
dialog for a task with many effort records is slow too. (SF#1630102)
Release 0.61.4 - December 30, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- Make Task Coach work with Python 2.5.
- Cancel reminders when marking a task completed. (SF#1606990)
- Unchecking a reminder would cause an exception. (SF#1606990)
- Column resizing is now less jumpy. (SF#1606319)
- MSVCP71.DLL was missing from the Windows distribution. (SF#1602364)
- Marking a task completed while completed tasks are hidden wouldn't
immediately hide the completed task. (SF#1572920)
- The category filter was not applied correctly on launch; showing categories
as filtered but not hiding the associated tasks. (SF#1603846)
- Turning on filtering for a category didn't mark the task file as changed.
(SF#1603846)
Feature added:
- Added RPM and Debian distributions.
Release 0.61.3 - November 19, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- If saving the TaskCoach.ini file would fail, displaying the error message
would fail (too) because the i18n translator had not been imported at that
point. (SF#1598568)
- Mac OSX distribution did not start. Upgraded py2app. (SF#1594190)
- Dragging and dropping a task in the task tree view would sometimes drag the
wrong task.
- Give category dialog focus and select default category title to make it
easier to quickly enter categories using the keyboard.
- The gdiplus.dll was missing from the Windows distribution. (SF#1596843)
Release 0.61.2 - November 11, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- Some Linux distributions do not have the BROWSER environment variable set,
causing errors. Be prepared. (SF#1567244)
- Saving failed with a UnicodeError if a category description would contain
non-ASCII characters. (SF#1589991)
- Deleting a task would not delete the task from the categories it belonged
to, resulting in errors upon next loading of the task file. (SF#1589993)
Release 0.61.1 - November 3, 2006
Bug fixed:
- Source distribution was missing some files.
Release 0.61.0 - November 2, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- Displaying a previously hidden toolbar would result in an incorrectly drawn
window. (SF#1551885)
- Exported HTML didn't contain an explicit charset. (SF#1561490)
- Negative effort preventation was not working correctly. (SF#1575458)
Features added:
- Hierarchical categories.
- Export in Comma Separated Values (CSV) format. As with export to HTML, the
current view is exported. (SF#1534862)
- Task Coach can be run from a removable medium, such as a USB stick. On
Windows, use the installer to install Task Coach to the medium. Then, start
Task Coach and turn the setting 'Save settings to same directory as
program' on. This setting can be found in Edit -> Preferences -> File).
This makes sure the TaskCoach.ini file is saved on the removable medium, in
the same directory as the main program. (SF#1464435)
Release 0.60 - August 30, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- Closing a task file did not reset the 'lastfile' setting. (SF#1548126)
- Selecting Japanese translation would cause error upon next restart.
(SF#1545593)
- Task Coach wouldn't quit when the setting 'Minimize window when closing' was
set. (SF#1545936)
- Deleting an effort record would throw an exception. (SF#1548117)
Website change:
- Added MD5 digests to download page. (download.html)
Release 0.59 - August 23, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- Improved efficiency while tracking effort for tasks. (SF#1429545)
- The column width of the list with filenames in the attachment page of the
task editor is now adaptable, so that long filenames can be made visible
entirely. (SF#1503006)
- Translation errors in tips. (SF#1525410, SF#1525423)
- When having multiple tasks with the same subject, new effort records would
always be created for the first of these tasks instead of the selected task.
(SF#1513403, SF#1524037)
- Opening a file with a non-ascii filename specified on the command line did
not work. (SF#1532528)
Features added:
- Japanese translation thanks to Yutaka Usui.
- Filter sidebar.
- Printing. Selecting 'File' -> 'Print' will print the currently active view.
This means only the visible columns will be printed and only the filtered
tasks will be printed, in the current sort order. (SF#1481881, SF#1472662,
SF#1307275, SF#1205819)
- Export to HTML. Selecting 'File' -> 'Export' -> 'Export to HTML' will export
the currently active view to HTML. This means only the visible columns will
be exported and only the filtered tasks will be printed, in the current sort
order. (SF#1375773, SF#1205819)
- Columns with numbers or dates are right-aligned.
Release 0.58 - May 14, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- On Mac OSX, Task Coach would seg fault upon exiting.
- Right-clicking a task in the task tree view would, correctly, pop up the
context menu, but would not select the underlying task. (SF#1440416)
- The memory leak in the TreeListCtrl was fixed in wxPython 2.6.3.2. The
installer for Windows and the disk image for Mac OSX use wxPython 2.6.3.2,
thus fixing the memory leak in Task Coach. If you use the source
distribution of Task Coach you will have to install wxPython 2.6.3.2
yourself to get the fix. (SF#1309858)
- Filtering on task categories was improved.
- Hitting Delete when editing the text in the find dialog would delete any
selected tasks. Unfortunately, to fix this bug some accelerators had to be
changed: the accelerator for "Delete task" is now Ctrl-Delete, for "New
task" it is now Ctrl-Insert, and for "New subtask" it is now Shift-Ctrl-
Insert. (SF#1463316)
- Don't close the current file when user cancels opening another file.
(SF#1475473)
Features added:
- Added toolbar button for 'new subtask'.
- Task Coach searches incrementally as you type a query in the find bar.
- When dragging a task in the tree view, hover over a tree button (a boxed
plus-sign or a triangle, depending on your platform) to expand the sub tree.
- To promote a sub task to a top-level task in the tree view, drag it and drop
it anywhere as long as it is not on another task.
- When filtering tasks by multiple categories, you may either choose to view
tasks that belong to at least one of the selected categories, or view tasks
that belong to all selected categories.
Release 0.57 - March 16, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- When adding a new effort to a task, take into account that the user may have
changed the task that the effort belongs to in the effort editor dialog
(using the dropdown combobox). Because Task Coach didn't do that, the effort
would be added twice if the user changed the task of the new effort record.
(SF#1443906)
- A file that was saved with an active effort couldn't be loaded again. Task
Coach would complain that the file was invalid. (SF#1433611)
- Added different sizes of the Task Coach icon. This prevents scaling up the
16x16 version to 32x32 on Windows or to even 128x128 on the Mac.
(SF#1406651, SF#1434044)
Feature added:
- Task Coach is now also available as disk image (.dmg) for Mac OSX (tested on
OSX 10.4).
Release 0.56 - February 14, 2006
Features added:
- Tasks can have attachments. Attachments can be added, removed and opened.
Opening of attachments is done by starting the default application for the
attachment file type. Attachments can also be dragged from a file browser
and dropped onto a task in one of the task viewers or on the task
attachment pane in the task editor dialog. (SF#1250241, SF#1339113)
- Whether a task is marked completed when all its child tasks are completed is
now a setting that can be changed application-wide via the preferences
dialog. The application-wide setting can be overruled on a task-by-task
basis via the task editor dialog. (SF#1393803)
- Task Coach shows a 'tips' dialog at startup. Hopefully it is helpful for new
users. Experienced users can turn it off.
Features changed:
- More visual feedback when dragging tasks in the tree view.
- Task editor layout changed. Priority is now part of the task description.
Budget and revenue have been merged into one pane. (SF#1312284)
Implementation changed:
- Default values for task and effort attributes are no longer saved in the
Task Coach file, resulting in an estimated 33%% reduction of file size.
Release 0.55 - January 13, 2006
Bug fixed:
- Sorting by total budget was broken. (SF#1399116)
Feature added:
- Simple reminders. (SF#1372932)
Dependency changed:
- Task Coach now requires wxPython 2.6.1.0-unicode or newer (this is only
relevant if you use the source distribution).
Release 0.54 - January 6, 2006
Bugs fixed:
- The accelerators INSERT and Ctrl+INSERT were mapped to 'c' and 'Command-
Copy' on the Mac, which caused Task Coach to create a new task whenever the
user typed a 'c'. Fixed by changing the accelerators for new task and new
subtask to Ctrl+N and Shift+Ctrl+N (on the Mac only). (SF#1311413)
- It was possible to enter control characters -- by copy-and-pasting --
resulting in invalid XML in the Task Coach file. (SF#1288689)
- One python file was missing in the source distribution of release 0.53.
Added a test to check that all python files in the source are actually added
to the source distributions, so hopefully this will never happen again.
(SF#1389224)
Feature added:
- Effort can be exported as iCalendar (ICS) file and imported into e.g.
Mozilla Sunbird. Each effort record is exported as a "VEVENT". This is an
experimental feature. Patch provided by Gissehel.
Release 0.53 - December 19, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- On some platforms, Python and wxPython seem to disagree on what the maximum
integer is. The maximum integer is used to set the maximum and minimum
allowed priority values. Fixed by allowing priority values between the
rather arbitrary minimum and maximum values of -1000000000 and 1000000000.
- Fixed exception: "wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "ucf.GotUpdate()"
failed in ..\..\src\msw extctrl.cpp(813): EM_STREAMIN didn't send
EN_UPDATE?". This seems to be a bug in wxPython 2.6.0 and 2.6.1. Patch
provided by Franz Steinhaeusler. (SF#1344023)
Features added:
- Columns in the effort view are hideable too, just like columns in the task
views. See 'View' -> 'Effort columns', or right-click a column header in the
effort view.
- Added possibility to mail tasks via your default mailer, see 'Task' ->
'Mail task' or right-click a task in one of the task views.
- Added option to minimize the window when you attempt to close the
application via the close button on the window title bar or the system
menu. See 'Edit' -> 'Preferences' -> 'Window behavior'.
Release 0.52 - November 29, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- For completed tasks, the number of days left for a task is now the number
of days between the completion date and the due date. This prevents that
the number of days left of completed tasks keeps decreasing, i.e. becoming
more negative. For uncompleted tasks, the number of days left is still the
number of days between today and the due date, of course. Patch provided by
Maciej Malycha.
- Put taskocachlib package first on the Python search path to prevent name
conflict with the config module on Gentoo Linux. (SF#1353636)
- Mention blue icon in the help on task colors. (SF#1355985)
- Don't allow empty categories. (SF#1333896)
Features added:
- Tasks can be dragged and dropped. (SF#1262863)
- Tasks can have an hourly fee and/or a fixed fee. Revenue is calculated based
on effort spent. (SF#1361790)
- First tiny steps towards a user manual, see 'Help' -> 'Help contents'.
- Whether the main window hides itself when iconized is now adjustable
behavior. See 'Edit' -> 'Preferences'.
Feature changed:
- Backups are created just before saving, instead of when loading a .tsk
file. Patch provided by Maciej Malycha.
Feature removed:
- Files in the old comma-separated format can no longer be read by Task Coach.
Release 0.51 - October 30, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Hitting enter in the find dialog didn't work on Linux.
- Old TaskCoach.ini files with a language setting of 'en' instead of 'en_US'
or 'en_GB' would cause an exception. Patch provided by Nirendra Maharaj.
Features added:
- Escape closes pop-up windows. Patch provided by Markus Meyer. (SF#1241547)
- The task of an effort record can be changed.
- Effort records can be cut, copied, and pasted.
Release 0.50 - October 2, 2005
Bug fixed:
- Exception was thrown when opening a task with logged effort.
Release 0.49 - October 2, 2005
Bug fixed:
- Previous release did not work on Linux/Mac OSX because of a platform
inconsistency between Windows and Linux (GetCountPerPage method is missing
on Linux, added manually). (SF#1305457)
Feature added:
- Task colors can be adjusted via 'Edit' -> 'Preferences'. (SF#1205579)
Release 0.48 - September 24, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Filtering tasks by status ('View' -> 'Tasks that are' -> '...') would cause
an exception.
- Sorting by days left would cause an exception. (SF#1295122)
Release 0.47 - September 18, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- 'View'->'All tasks' now also resets any search criterium entered by the user
in the search bar.
- When opening a task with a (long) description, the cursor will be positioned
on the first line of the text, instead of on the last line. (SF#1265845)
- When viewing tasks due before a certain date in the tree view, tasks with
subtasks due before that date will be visible. (SF#1275708)
Features added:
- Added Hungarian translation thanks to Majsa Norbert.
- The task tree view now also shows columns with task details, similar to the
task list view. (SF#1194642)
- Sorting on task subject can now also be case insensitive. See the menu item
'View' -> 'Sort' -> 'Sort case sensitive'. (SF#1228873)
- Recent files are remembered and can be opened from the File menu. The
maximum number of recent files shown can be set in the Preferences dialog.
Set the maximum to zero to disable this feature. (SF#1191707)
- The last modification time of tasks can be viewed.
Release 0.46 - August 12, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- In the effort views, the status bar would show information about tasks, not
about effort.
- Entering a negative effort duration while using a non-english language
would crash Task Coach. (SF#1250177)
- Having a two letter language string (e.g. 'en') in the TaskCoach.ini file
would cause an error in the preferences dialog. (SF#1247506)
Features added:
- Double-clicking the system tray icon when Task Coach is not minimized will
raise the Task Coach window. (SF#1242520)
- Added Spanish translation thanks to Juan José.
Feature changed:
- Keyboard shortcut for deleting a task is now 'Delete' instead of 'Ctrl-D'
and 'Ctrl-Enter' marks the selected task(s) completed. (SF#1241549)
Implementations changed:
- Task ids are now persistent, i.e. they are saved to and loaded from the Task
Coach (XML) file. This will make it easier, in the future, to keep tasks
synchronized with external sources, e.g. Outlook.
- Task Coach now keeps track of the last modification time of tasks. These
times are saved to and loaded from the Task Coach (XML) file. This change is
also in preparation of synchronization functionality.
Release 0.45 - July 26, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- When tracking effort the task file would be marked as changed after every
clock tick.
- Task priority can now be set to both positive and negative integers.
- Opening a help dialog before the splash screen disappeared would make Task
Coach stop responding to input. Fixed by making the helpdialogs modeless (as
they should be). (SF#1241058)
Feature changed:
- Setting the start date of a subtask earlier than the start date of the
parent task, or setting the due date of a subtask later than the due date of
the parent task will adapt the parent start or due date as necessary.
(SF#1237634)
Release 0.44 - July 21, 2005
Feature added:
- Added Russian translation thanks to Valdimir Ilyash.
Release 0.43 - July 19, 2005
Bug fixed:
- Tree and list view were not updated correctly when changing sort key or
sort order.
Release 0.42 - July 17, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Double clicking a task with children in the tree view would open the edit
dialog and expand or collapse the task as well. Fixed to not collapse or
expand the task when double clicking it.
- Adding a subtask to a collapsed parent task now automatically expands the
parent task.
- Changing the description of a task or effort record wouldn't mark the task
file as changed.
- Time spent is now updated every second. (SF#1173048)
- Don't try to make a backup when loading the file fails. Reported by Scott
Schroeder.
- (Windows installer only) Association between .tsk files and Task Coach was
broken.
Feature changed:
- The start date of a task can now be left unset, creating a task that is
permanently inactive. This can be useful for activities that you would
normally not want to plan, but have to keep a time record for, e.g.
sickness.
Release 0.41 - June 20, 2005
Features added:
- URL's (including mailto) in task and effort descriptions are clickable.
(SF#1190310)
- Tasks can have a priority. Priorities are integer numbers: the higher the
number, the higher the priority. Default priority is 0. Negative numbers are
allowed (SF#1194527, SF#1194567, SF#1210154)
Features changed:
- Default start date of new subtasks is today (used to be the start date of
the parent task)
- When 'sort by status first' is on, active tasks always come before inactive
tasks which in turn come before completed tasks, regardless of whether the
sort order is ascending or descending.
Release 0.40 - June 16, 2005
Bug fixed:
- Budget left was rendered incorrectly when over budget. (SF#1216951)
Feature added:
- Tasks can belong to zero or more categories. Tasks can be viewed/hidden by
category. (SF#1182172)
Release 0.39 - June 6, 2005
Bug fixed:
- When sorting by due date, composite tasks in the tree view are now sorted
according to the most urgent subtask instead of the least urgent subtask.
Features added:
- Tasks can be sorted on all attributes (subject, start date, due date,
budget, etc.) This includes options to sort ascending or descending and to
first sort by status (active/inactive/completed).
- Sorting order can be changed by clicking on column headers.
- Added German translation, thanks to J. Martin.
- Minor view menu changes. (SF#1189978)
Release 0.38 - May 22, 2005
Features added:
- Simplified Chinese user interface added, thanks to limodou.
- Autosave setting to automatically save after every change. (SF#1188194)
- Backup setting to create a backup when opening a Task Coach file.
- Added preference dialog to edit preferences not related to the view
settings.
- Now using gettext for i18n.
Release 0.37 - May 14, 2005
Bug fixed:
- Icons in tree view on Windows 2000. (SF#1194654)
Features added:
- Columns in the task list view can be turned on/off by right-clicking on the
column headers.
- Tasks can be sorted either by due date or alphabetically. (SF#1177984)
- More options when editing an effort record.
- Used a new DatePickerCtrl. (SF#1191909)
Release 0.36 - May 5, 2005
Bug fixed:
- Descriptions loose newlines after reload. (SF#1194259)
Feature added:
- French user interface added, thanks to Jérôme Laheurte.
Release 0.35 - May 2, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Toolbar icons had a black background instead of a transparent background on
some Windows platforms. (SF#1190230)
- Package i18n was missing. (SF#1190967)
Features added:
- Internationalization support. Task Coach is available with Dutch and English
user interface. (SF#1164461)
- Added 'expand selected task' and 'collapse selected task' menu items to the
view menu and the task context menu. (SF#1189978)
Feature removed:
- 'Select' -> 'Completed tasks'. This can be done through the View menu too.
Release 0.34 - April 25, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- msvcr71.dll was not shipped with the Windows installer. (SF#1189311)
- Budgets larger than 24 hours were not written correctly to the XML file.
- Mark completed stops effort tracking of parent task. (SF#1186667)
Release 0.33 - April 24, 2005
Bug fixed:
- The .tsk fileformat is now XML, making Task Coach fully unicode-enabled.
Release 0.32 - April 18, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Task Coach failure on startup due to trying to add a column from the task
list view to the effort view.
- Budget couldn't be filled in in the executable Windows distribution
"LookupError: unknown encoding: latin1".
- Loading files with the executable Windows distribution failed. (SF#1185259)
Release 0.31 - April 17, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- A unittest.py bug that was fixed in Python 2.4 revealed a bug in test.py.
(SF#1181714)
- When searching for a task that is completed, while the 'show completed'
switch is off, the search shows the path to the task (i.e. parent tasks),
but not the matched task itself. (SF#1182528)
- When searching for tasks in the tree view, composite tasks are expanded
automatically to show the children that match the search string.
(SF#1182528)
- Columns were hidden by setting their width to 0, but that did not make them
entirely invisible on some Linux platforms. (SF#1152566)
- When editing a subtask, sometimes its branch would be collapsed.
(SF#1179266)
Features added:
- In the task list and effort list the task column is automatically resized
to take up the available space.
- Added columns to the task list view for: budget, total budget, budget left,
and total budget left.
- Reorganized view menu, added extra task filters, added menu item to reset
filters (SF#1181762, SF#1178882, SF#1178780)
- The subject is selected in the task editor so that replacing it is a bit
easier. (SF#1180887)
Dependency changed:
- Task Coach migrated to Python 2.4.1 and wxPython 2.5.5.1. Added check to
give friendly message if wxPython version is below the required version
number.
Release 0.30 - April 11, 2005
Bug fixed:
- More than one task due today would crash Task Coach. (SF#1180641)
Release 0.29 - April 10, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- New effort in the context menu did not work in release 0.28. (SF#1178562)
- When selecting 'View' -> 'Completed tasks' in the task tree, only completed
root tasks were hidden. (SF#1179372)
Features added:
- What tab is active is now a persistent setting. This includes the tabs and
choices in the main window and the effort choices in the task editor.
(SF#1178779)
- Reordered 'View' -> 'Tasks due before end of' menu. (SF#1178880)
- Added a separate 'Budget' tab in the task editor.
- Taskbar icon now indicates whether task effort tracking is on. (SF#1178057)
- Effort is sorted from most recent to least recent. (SF#1179332)
- Changed task/subtask separator in the task list view from '|' to ' -> '.
(SF#1179374)
Release 0.28 - April 6, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Hitting return or double click to edit effort in the task editor now works.
(SF#1172164)
- Subtasks with the same name would only be visible once in the task tree
view.
Feature added:
- You can hide composite tasks in the task list view so that only leaf tasks
are visible. Menu item 'View' -> 'Tasks with subtasks'. Requested by Brian
Crounse.
Release 0.27 - April 4, 2005
Feature added:
- Tasks can have a budget.
Release 0.26 - March 28, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Marking a task completed did not stop effort tracking. (SF#1159918)
- Reading lots of efforts was slow.
Features added:
- Save button is disabled when saving is not necessary, requested by Mike
Vorozhbensky. (SF#1164472)
- Effort records have a description field, requested by Kent. (SF#1167147)
Release 0.25 - March 13, 2005
Bug fixed:
- The menu item 'Effort' -> 'New effort' did not work in release 0.24.
Features added:
- XML export now includes effort records.
- Effort per day, per week and per month view now also show total time spent
(i.e. time including time spent on subtasks).
Release 0.24 - March 10, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Saving a selection of tasks to a separate file would also save all effort
records to that file (instead of just the effort records for the selected
tasks), giving errors when loading that file.
- Deleting a task with effort records would not delete the effort records.
Feature added:
- The tracking status of tasks is saved. So if you start tracking a task,
quit Task Coach, and restart Task Coach later, effort for that task is
still being tracked. Requested by Bob Hossley.
Release 0.23 - February 20, 2005
Bug fixed:
- Fixed a couple of bugs in the unit tests, discovered by Stephen Boulet and
Jérôme Laheurte on the Linux platform.
Release 0.22 - February 17, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- In the effort summary view, effort spent on a task in the same month or week
but in different years would erroneously be added. E.g. effort in January
2004 and January 2006 would be added.
- The mechanism to prevent effort periods with a negative duration (i.e. a
start time later than the stop time) in the effort editor was invoked on
each key stroke which caused inconvenient behavior. Fixed it by only
invoking it when the user leaves the text or combo box.
Features added:
- Added possibility to start tracking effort for a task, with start time
equal to the end time of the previous effort period. This is for example
convenient if you stop working on a task and then spend some time deciding
on what to do next. This is the 'Start tracking from last stop time' menu
item in the 'Effort' menu.
- (Re)Added the unittests to the source distribution. See INSTALL.txt.
- Export to XML. Currently limited to tasks, effort is not exported yet.
Release 0.21 - February 9, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Setting the start date/time in the effort editor would change the stop
date/time while not strictly necessary to prevent negative durations.
- Refreshing the virtual ListCtrl failed under
wxPython2.5-gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3 and wxPython-common-
gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3. Reported by Stephen Boulet.
- After iconizing the main window for a second time, the icon in the task bar
wouldn't be hidden anymore. Reported and fixed by Jérôme Laheurte.
Release 0.20 - February 6, 2005
Bugs fixed:
- Reading .tsk files version 2 failed.
- Completed child tasks were not hidden in the tree view when 'View->Completed
tasks' was on.
- Hiding the find panel did not clear the search filter.
- When searching for tasks, not all matches were shown in the tree view.
- Displaying time spent and total time spent in the list view for more than a
dozen tasks and efforts was slow. Used caching to speed it up.
- Tool tips on the toolbar included mnemonics and accelerator characters on
Linux. Reported on python-2.3.4 and
wxPython2.5-gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3 on Suse 9.2 by Stephen Boulet.
Features added:
- Effort can be viewed summarized per day, per week, and per month.
- Effort for a specific task can be viewed (and edited) in the task editor.
- Effort tracking can be stopped from the taskbar menu.
- Size and position of the main window are saved in the settings and restored
on the next session. This also includes whether the main window is iconized
or not.
- Splash screen can be turned off.
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