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Bug 154818

Summary:	rich text in notes
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Ruth Alkema <ruth>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	David Green <greensopinion>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	ekuleshov, kevwilliams, mik.kersten, steffen.pingel
Version:	0.6	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	3.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	189312

Description Ruth Alkema

2006-08-23 03:31:53 EDT

I would like to be able to do some formatting in the notes for a task.  I use the notes to explain a bit more what the task is about.  I make notes of things I should not forget etc.   This would look nicer if I could use things like bold text, bulleted lists etc.

Comment 1 Mik Kersten

2006-08-24 16:20:03 EDT

I agree that this would be useful, and back when I used Outlook for task management frequently used bold and lists frequently.  Marking helpwanted for now since there are too many high priority items ahead of this.

Comment 2 Kevin

2008-04-10 01:14:13 EDT

Is this for the notes view or the notes text input area inside the planning tab for a task? +1 for the Personal Planning section.

I would like to have a stab at this for my first addition to Mylyn. Having never worked on the Mylyn code before any suggestions on this would be great.

Comment 3 Robert Elves

2008-04-10 19:02:37 EDT

This bug pertains to the notes section on the Planning tab of the task editor. Contribution is welcome Kevin. Mik, we've had some discussion about this but never came up with the spec, did you want to give us your thoughts on this? Bullets, bold, underline, and strikethrough are the pieces of functionality that I tend to miss.

Comment 4 Mik Kersten

2008-04-10 20:32:55 EDT

Yes, I think that the bits of functionality that you list are the key ones.  The challenge here is finding the right implementation approach, e.g.:
1) Custom SWT-based rich text editor
2) AJAX-based embedding (e.g., TinyMCE, but I think that's LGPL and not compatible with the EPL which Mylyn is under).

I recall that the EPF project had a rich editor and just looked into it.  It looks like they take approach (2).  This could be promising to explore since it could be a matter of integrating their solution with Mylyn.  To browse the corresponding code see: http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=RichTextEditor+epf#6

Comment 5 Shawn Minto

2009-05-27 17:19:47 EDT

The local repository and the notes on the local task editor now support wikitext for rich formating.