Continue after reboot

[srguiwiz]

Already have TimeIT launch when starting GNOME.

This feature request is on application start to automatically continue the task that stopped counting by application quit, if reasonable conditions are met.

The purpose is achieving complete "set and forget" when working on a project on a machine for days in a row, which may include machine restarts.

The conditions probably need discussion, or at least deserve definition:

First, what is an application quit?

• A signal to quit, as when the operating system shuts down.
• Anything that TimeIT counts as end of task that wasn't triggered by a known cause.
• In contrast, known causes that aren't an application quit: User action to stop task, or leaving a workspace if task is tied to a workspace.

Second, what is a match on application start, only to be evaluated if first condition has been met?

• Any workspace if task wasn't or isn't tied to a workspace.
• In same workspace. Is that possible on startup? Wouldn't at startup that be always the first workspace, if any? Maybe that would not be a reliable match?

That leads to one more case:

• What if there is a task is tied to one workspace, user went to other workspace, operating system restarts, and then the user comes back into that one workspace? If the task was still started, just not counting, it should still be started when the application starts, and continue counting when returning to the workspace.

Basically, a system restart should then also restart all tasks that were started.

This probably should have an optional checkbox in the Preferences, not to surprise existing users?

What should the default be? Always to continue after restart? Only continue after restart if user found the checkbox in Preferences?

Maybe this is only possible reliably for tasks not tied to a workspace. If so, the UI should say so and implement it anyway.

The motivation for me today is to know "how long do I actually work on that machine?" Both, for billing on one machine, and to know where life is going, on another machine. That is not workspace specific.

But, others, now or in the future, and myself, might want this to be workspace specific.

To be clear, TimeIT already is very useful before this feature request.

[srguiwiz]

TimeIT does this already:

@Hoglet has pointed out, if a task is connected to a workspace then that task continues after a restart.

A person who doesn't really use workspaces can connect a task to their first or their one and only workspace, or to all workspaces.