Unable to quickly schedule tasks for the coming week using the right-click menu

Hi jazz,

thank you for this patch. There were already similar bugs opened and they were merged in GTG trunk. Please try it:

cd ~
bzr clone lp:gtg

Before merging your patch we should think about it. If we have a lot of options in right-click menu, it became useless. We have to find compromise between having every possible option for scheduling and having simple, usable right-click menu.

Please, try GTG trunk. What is you opinion?

Lionel > what do you think about this?

Hi Izidor,

Thanks for your quick reply. I've checked out the 0.3-dev branch, which organizes the right-click menu somewhat differently. The idea, however, would be almost the same: to put all the days of the week under the 'start at' and 'due for' menu items.

The use case here is scheduling tasks for the coming week: I regularly have to postpone tasks a few days. It saves me a lot of clicking if I can directly from the right-click menu indicate the target day. (Keyboard shortcuts may also be nice - just occurred to me)

Cheers,
Jasper.

Hi jasper,

I can see clearly your use case. What about creating menu inside start/end right-click menu? Schedule for this week -> Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | ... We wont have some many possible options and they will be categorized. There are few possible things to think about:
If today is Wednesday, and I get as the first option for schedule for this week as Monday - do I think the last Monday or the next Monday? In what order they should be?

Having keyboard shortcuts for something like this won't be a good idea. It is a pretty specific use case which I would use just a few times in my life. I would not be able to learn that and use on daily basis. However, what about having shortcuts which postpone selected tasks?

For example:
alt+0 => Today()
alt+1 => Today() +1
alt+2 => Today() +2
...
alt+9 => Today() +9

But what about postponing start dates? It is lesser used by me, but sometimes I use that. Use <ctrl>? some people might use that shortcut for global shortcuts like changing a virtual desktop. (Alt works in applications like Firefox and gnome-terminal)
What is your opinion?