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Bug 330695

Summary: Make tasks assigned to me more prominent in the task list
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Sam Davis <sam.davis>
Component: MylynAssignee: Frank Becker <eclipse>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2 CC: eclipse, steffen.pingel, tomasz.zarna
Version: unspecifiedKeywords: noteworthy
Target Milestone: 3.11   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard: sprint=1;effort=2;
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 343626    
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Description Sam Davis CLA 2010-11-19 13:35:56 EST
Currently, you communicate to others that you are taking ownership of a bug by assigning it to yourself. Unfortunately, this is not reflected in the task list in any way, so you are not effectively communicating it to yourself. It seems like adding any more decorations to the task list is a bad idea, but I have 2 suggestions on how this could be supported:

# Make the "Assigned to" field in the task tooltip stand out when assigned to me, e.g. by making it bold and/or showing the little yellow person icon.
# Add a "Show only my tasks" filter button to the task list toolbar. This would work similarly to the "Hide completed tasks" button, except that it would be available when the task list is focussed as well as when it's not.
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-04-05 16:00:52 EDT
+1 for both suggestions. 

I am not sure though where we would put the affordance to toggle the task list filter. It may prove to be useful enough to justify a toolbar button but at the same time we have too many modes (and particularly combination of modes) already that we may want to consider this as part of revamping the presentation switcher.
Comment 2 Sam Davis CLA 2011-04-05 16:04:33 EDT
I agree that there are already too many modes. I so frequently switch between focussed-scheduled and unfocussed-categorized that I wish I could have 2 task lists open.
Comment 3 Sam Davis CLA 2012-10-01 18:43:59 EDT
Created attachment 221752 [details]
screenshot

8012: 330695: indicate tasks assigned to me in the task list tooltip [I84946984]
https://git.eclipse.org/r/#change,8012
Comment 4 Sam Davis CLA 2012-10-01 18:44:35 EDT
Created attachment 221753 [details]
mylyn/context/zip
Comment 5 Steffen Pingel CLA 2012-10-30 07:23:57 EDT
The icon looks good but I don't like the bold. It makes the assignee stand out too much.
Comment 6 Frank Becker CLA 2013-01-13 16:00:06 EST
I create two reviews for the 2. part

https://git.eclipse.org/r/9640
https://git.eclipse.org/r/9641
Comment 7 Frank Becker CLA 2013-01-13 16:00:19 EST
Created attachment 225542 [details]
mylyn/context/zip
Comment 8 Sam Davis CLA 2013-06-03 17:09:10 EDT
Created attachment 231899 [details]
possible icon for focus on my tasks button

Frank, I haven't looked at the code yet, but that icon looks like it is hiding my tasks. I wonder if we should just show the person_me icon without a line through it? Or we could use the blue person icon with a line through it, or we could combine them, something like in this attachment. What do you think is best?
Comment 9 Sam Davis CLA 2013-06-03 17:10:54 EDT
(In reply to comment #5)
> The icon looks good but I don't like the bold. It makes the assignee stand out
> too much.

I agree.
Comment 10 Frank Becker CLA 2013-06-04 23:39:40 EDT
(In reply to comment #8)
> Created attachment 231899 [details]
> possible icon for focus on my tasks button
> 
> Frank, I haven't looked at the code yet, but that icon looks like it is hiding
> my tasks. I wonder if we should just show the person_me icon without a line
> through it? Or we could use the blue person icon with a line through it, or we
> could combine them, something like in this attachment. What do you think is
> best?
 I like the combine icon and push a new patch set to the review.
Comment 11 Frank Becker CLA 2013-10-17 09:48:58 EDT
Sam or Tomasz,

can you review https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/9640/ so that I can push an updated patch set for review https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/9641/

Thanks
Comment 12 Frank Becker CLA 2013-10-17 16:15:24 EDT
Patch Set 3 of review https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/9641/ include the new icon in the LocalToolBar
Comment 13 Frank Becker CLA 2013-10-17 16:15:28 EDT
Created attachment 236618 [details]
mylyn/context/zip
Comment 14 Leo Dos Santos CLA 2013-11-13 19:58:48 EST
Should the 'my tasks filter' button be hidden off the tool bar when in focused mode, just like the incoming filter is hidden? And should the 2 buttons be grouped next to one another since they're conceptually similar?
Comment 15 Sam Davis CLA 2013-11-14 14:58:28 EST
Assuming you meant the completed tasks filter, yes, I think that makes sense.
Comment 16 Leo Dos Santos CLA 2013-11-14 18:04:41 EST
Yes, that's what I meant ;-)
Comment 17 Leo Dos Santos CLA 2013-11-15 18:13:59 EST
Additional review https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/18451/
Comment 18 Sam Davis CLA 2013-11-18 14:39:41 EST
After playing around with this a bit, I think it makes more sense to keep that action available when in focused mode since it's like an even greater level of focus. I've amended Frank's review.
Comment 19 Sam Davis CLA 2013-11-20 17:55:43 EST
A filter button has been added to the task list and the yellow person icon has been added to the tooltip.