GTimeTracker Documentation - chapter 3
The Dialogs
3.1 The Preferences Dialog
3.1.1 Display
You can select, what GTimeTracker should display in the main window,
here.
Show Seconds
- You can tell GTimeTracker, if you want the seconds to be displayed
in the project list. If seconds are shown, the time displayed in the
project list looks like
00:12:47
(hours:minutes:seconds). If not, you
just see 00:12
(hours:minutes).
Show Toolbar Icons
and Show Toolbar Texts
- If you're using a GNOME version of GTimeTracker, you can select how
the toolbar should look. You can chosse to display icons and/or a text.
Show Status Bar
- Just choose, if you want the status bar to be displayed.
3.1.2 Shell Commands
Switch Project Command
- This shell command will be executed every time you select a
project, which was previously unselected. If you use
%s
in this
command, GTimeTracker will replace that by the title of the selected
project. I use the following entry to update my .project
file:
echo '%s' >~/.project
No Project Command
- This shell command will be executed every time you deselect a
project or if you exit GTimeTracker. To complete the example above, I
use this command:
rm -f ~/.project
3.1.3 Logfile
Use Logfile
- You have to enable this, if you want a logfile.
Filename
- Give a filename for the logfile. GTimeTracker currently does not
replace
$HOME
or ~
. You should give the complete path to the
logfile.
Timeout in secs
- This value represents the minimum time a project has to be
selected, before it will be logged. This is usefull, when you don't want
any small task to be logged, or when you clicked on the wrong project
first. Let's say, you just wanted to start working on a letter to your
friend Joe (so you selected the project Letter to Joe), but that
reminds you, that you have to prepare a list of Christmas presents first
(Joe has asked you to give him some good ideas). So you switch to the
project X-Mas presents. You wouldn't want the project Letter to
Joe to be in your logfile, because you didn't really start it yet. I
would suggest you set this value at least to 10 seconds.
Note that a project will not get logged, before you either quit
GTimeTracker, switch to another project, or deselct that project. So don't
be confused when you look at your logfile and your current project still
isn't listed, even if it is running since two hours.
3.1.4 OK
, apply
and Cancel
If you are pleased with the values of the dialog, press OK
to make
them active and have the dialog go away.
If you want to apply these values just for a given task and plan to
reopen the dialog again, you can press on Apply
to activate the values.
But the dialog will remain open.
If you don't want to change to working values, you just press
Cancel
. That will close the dialog, but will not change the behavier of
GTimeTracker in any way. I recommend using Cancel
even if you didn't
change anything.
3.2 The Properties Dialog
This dialog shows you all values that are internally stored with a
project.
Note that this is the only way to examine the overall time yet.
Project Title
- You can change the title of a project here.
Project Description
- You can give the project a more detailed description if you like.
Up to now this value will never be used by GTimeTracker
Project Time today
- This is the daily time, you worked on the project today. You
can edit this time here.
Project Time ever
- This is the total time, you worked on a project. You can edit
this time here.
See OK
, apply
and Cancel
, subsection 3.1.4 for the meaning of the buttons at the
bottom of the dialog.
3.3 The New Project Dialog
This dialog is fairly small. It just wants to know, how you want to
entitle the new project. Just enter a title of the new project and press
OK
, if you are satisfied. Or press Cancel
if you changed your mind
and don't want GTimeTracker to add a new project.
GTimeTracker Documentation
- Copyright © 1997,98 Eckehard Berns
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last modified: 14 January 1998
Eckehard Berns eb@berns.prima.de