Bug 143950

Summary:	Wish: have a stopwatch view
Product:	[Applications] ktimetracker	Reporter:	jstaerk
Component:	general	Assignee:	Zoltan Gyarmati <mr.zoltan.gyarmati>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aspotashev
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	Git (master)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description jstaerk 2007-04-08 10:43:32 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I suggest an icon in Karm to activate a view where one sees only a big stopwatch with (the time and) the tasks currently running. For this view I suggest no tree, but breadcrumps to the current tasks (e.g. projects>evaluate software>test karm  15:02). This would allow the clock to become optically quite large.


Reason:
The (german) Linux-Magazin tested Karm and 2 other Linux timetrackers in issue 05/07 pg. 62ff.
It (says some good things about Karm but) criticizes karm's controls were "small and optically less concise". Instead of reducing the amount of displayed information via filters, Karm would show [too] much information simultaneously.

It says that it was hardly visible if and which projects were being tracked, showing only a hardly visible black-and-white clock symbol and that you could actually even hide the project which time is currently running.

It implicitly somewhat emphasizes the fact that all other timetrackers had a kind of stopwatch view which is considered more usable because optically immediately displaying the most important facts.

Comment 1 Thorsten Staerk 2007-04-08 15:28:04 UTC

Thanks for the Linux Magazin and the coffee.

Comment 2 jstaerk 2007-04-09 11:38:15 UTC

you're welcome. 
In the meantime I realized that the idea we discussed (have this stopwatch view as a dockable icon pane) is crap: the article complains that there is too much information anyway and it's right because one can not concentrate on more than 5-7 elements at the same time. Adding yet another bunch of information would make the program even more unusable (in terms of usability), I would really prefer to be able to have _either_ the stopwatch view _or_ the traditional view.

As I said, we're all very so much into the program that we know where everything is but a new user must be struck by all the information everywhere. Can we make the UI more simple?

If you want, I can get some people together who've never seen this program and write down what they want to do and how they try to achieve it. Actually, one could even make a paper demo with a stopwatch view and capture the comments.

Comment 3 Thorsten Staerk 2007-07-29 12:12:48 UTC

I found a victim... I mean a volunteer ;)

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:53:24 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I will be closing this bug.