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Build Identifier: 20110916-0149 It's presently impossible to know which tasks have notes attached from the task list view without opening each task individually. Notes should be a nested entry in the task list itself. For tasks that have notes, the same small triangle that allows you to expand a category would be next to each task with notes and allow you to expand the notes. This triangle would serve as a graphical indication for each task that has a non-empty notes field populated. Using "expand all" would show all categories, tasks, and notes right in the tasks list. Last, notes should display when the mouse hovers over the task along with the other attributes that are currently displayed. Reproducible: Always
Mik, do you have any thoughts on this request? I rarely use notes so I haven't missed them in the Task List.
I know I'm just one user, but I use Mylyn extensively as a solo developer. I put notes into probably 20% of my tasks because there's often important code context information or links to websites with further information about the task. My workaround for the time being has been to append "--notes" to the end of each task that has notes so I remember to open it up and read them when needed.
+1 While private notes may be used infrequently, it's notable when they exist, and currently impossible to tell that from the Task List. I think that we should add a decoration to the lower-right of tasks to indicate that a task has a note present. I'm also thinking that we do the same for attachments.
Review: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/13677/
*** Bug 412219 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I use notes a fair bit, but showing notes directly in the task list doesn't make sense to me: they aren't tasks, and they would typically be far too long. But adding a decorator could be useful. I'm concerned though that we may have too many decorators and it may just create clutter. Tomek, could you post a screenshot of what you did when you get back to working on this?
I would think a decorator of some sort would be sufficient. It seems like it would be difficult to represent notes, which can be arbitrarily complex text with white space and so forth, in a list or tree view. For what it's worth, I also place a manual decoration of sorts, for me an @, for any task that I have added notes to.
Thanks, that is good feedback. We'll try to figure out whether it makes sense to add some kind of decoration for 3.10. If you use private notes, you may also be interested in 389960: task list indexer should index private notes https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=389960
Created attachment 233897 [details] Task list with notes indicator (In reply to comment #6) > Tomek, could you post a screenshot of what you did ... Here you go.
That's not bad. I wonder if the icon would be more recongizable as a pencil if it were yellow.
Created attachment 233995 [details] yellow pencil
I like that better, and I think this won't be too cluttered as it doesn't seem to clash with any of the existing decorations.
Uhm, I like the yellow icon better as well. Pushed a new patch set with it: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/13677/3
The change has been merged. Thanks very much for the contribution!
