From: Mark Bucciarelli (mark_at_easymailings.com)
Date: Sat May 29 2004 - 17:01:29 CEST
From: Mark Bucciarelli <mark@easymailings.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 11:01:29 -0400 Message-Id: <200405291101.29515.mark@easymailings.com> Subject: [taskjuggler-devel] karm integration?
Greetings, my name is Mark Bucciarelli and I am the current maintainer of
Karm, which is KDE's time tracker. I am starting to think a little bit
about integrating with project managment tools, and have looked quickly at
Task Juggler and Gnome's Planner. Initially, I was more interested in
Planner b/c it has a GUI, but yesterday Lukáš Tinkl mentioned on kde-pim
that a gui interface is planned sometime, and that I should "stay tuned."
So I'm tuning in :)
What Karm can provide Task Juggler is an integrated and easy to use way of
collecting time charged against tasks. Currenly, Karm works off iCalendar
files, and stores task history (basically start/stop clock events) as iCal
events and the task list as iCal Todos. This is how KOrganizer stores
TODO's as well. So, as of KDE 3.2 Karm and KOrganizer can work off the
same list.
I'm interested in seeing how we can integrate the KOrg/Karm and Task
Juggler's task lists. Perhaps simpler, how can we get the time card data
from Karm into Task Juggler (and would that be as useful as I think it
might be). Here are some ideas:
(1) provide Karm dcop interface that task juggler could query.
(2) provide Task Juggler dcop interface that Karm could load
(3) write a KDE resource for task juggler XML and have Karm read/write
directly to that (any Task Juggler file locking issues?)
(4) write a KDE resource for a task juggler file, and then use kitchen sync
to syncronize the time card history from Karm into that file. (Not even
sure KitchenSync works this way ...)
(5) Create an export function in Karm that creates a basic Task Juggler XML
file.
Another possible integration point with kde-pim is the Project View plugin
for KOrganizer. This plugin creates a nice chart inside the KOrganizer
pane, based on the TODO hierarchy, and using the task due date and
percentage done. I don't know how actively this is being developed--last
time I looked it needed some love.
What do you think?
Regards,
Mark
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