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Bug 39296 - Improve TODOs discoverability
Summary: Improve TODOs discoverability
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: contrib
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Tasklist (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: tasklist-issues@contrib
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on: 50774
Blocks:
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Reported: 2004-01-28 12:36 UTC by Martin Grebac
Modified: 2009-11-09 06:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Martin Grebac 2004-01-28 12:36:43 UTC 
It's pretty hard to find the tasklist module in
IDE, and realize how to use it. 
 I tried to find it several times (I knew it is
present in current builds), but never with
success. Had to ask colleague, who already asked
developers about this. 
 Doesn't sound like a good out of the box experience.
Comment 1 _ pkuzel 2004-01-28 13:13:20 UTC 
What's your expectation?
Comment 2 Martin Grebac 2004-01-28 13:17:43 UTC 
That IDE automatically reminds me of it's existence when I type //TODO
into editor, e.g., I'm not an expert. I'm just saying that current
solution without any additional support is not enough.
Comment 3 _ pkuzel 2004-01-28 14:25:25 UTC 
It looks to be very intrusive and you need to scan all user actions
even before he asked for it.

I propose to add new entry to Tips of the day and improve documentation.
Is it OK? Martin? John?
Comment 4 John Jullion-ceccarelli 2004-01-28 15:37:34 UTC 
There will be no more tips of the day starting in promo B. It's
documented in the editing section. I can index it better but basically
I don't plan to write any more docs on it. I think that the To Do item
in the Windows menu gives it pretty good visibility.

In the future, I suppose we could add a contextual menu item for TODO
comments that says "Show in To Do List" or something.
Comment 5 dpavlica 2004-01-28 17:13:41 UTC 
About possible places, where user could invoke To Dos in the future,
you can read at this address (Enhancements chapter): 
http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/hi/promoB/tasklist.html

Citation: 
...To Do window could be invoked from Margin of the Editor, but
click-able concept of Margin should be changed a bit...

...To Do window could be invoke-able from Contextual menu of the
Filesystems window. Then it could be opened with the Current File view
or the Selected Folder View. In the second case searching for tasks
will start immediately and the folder will be added into the history
of folders....
Comment 6 John Jullion-ceccarelli 2004-02-02 12:12:54 UTC 
reassigning back to engineering, since this is not a docs task.
Comment 7 _ pkuzel 2005-03-30 13:43:29 UTC 
There is also related RFE for TODO syntax coloring issue #50774.
Comment 8 Stanislav Aubrecht 2009-09-24 15:04:12 UTC 
task list window is now opened by default (since version 6.0 i think), closing