recollir
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6 years ago A GUI/desktop app is out of scope for this project. But we don't discourage it being developed outside of taskwarrior.
Closed kirillbobyrev closed 6 years ago
recollir
commented
6 years ago A GUI/desktop app is out of scope for this project. But we don't discourage it being developed outside of taskwarrior.
Even though I'm fairly new to Taskwarrior and don't know whether it's an issue for the other users, but since I have over few hundreds of tasks I constantly encounter the problem of efficient navigation. A good front end would solve this issue. vim-taskwarrior and few other terminal-based frontends are not much better in terms of navigation. There is also taskwarrior-web project, it's really nice, but I think it's still not very intuitive and does not provide fancy reports, neat visualizations and other things people love existing task managers for. A decent desktop application would also greatly improve usability: currently Taskwarrior is probably mostly used by the programmers because of the CLI interface and learning curve; creating a Desktop application would attract way more users, think of some great examples of open-source projects useful not only for the programmers and hence pretty popular (e.g. transmission).
I understand that a good desktop application is a significant effort, but since there is no mailing list for discussing such issues, I decided to create an issue to see what the developers think. There's nothing about front ends and desktop applications in 2018 roadmap, so I thought bringing it up might be useful for the long-term future.
Taskwarrior is already implemented in C++, so the choice of the Qt-based tool would be natural.
There are few very nice examples of pretty good GUI task managers out there:
All of them miss some features I'd really want to have and also are not open-source. Creating some sort of competition in the form of Taskwarrior makes sense to me.