#35 manually add time to task

[Anonymous]

If someone forgott to start the program it would be nice if there would be the possibility to alter the time of a task manually.

[Jiri Kovalsky]

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Do you mean the situation when you forget to start the very first task and thus also no starting time is recorded? To be honest, I don't like the idea of manual editing. Rachota is time tracker and not time editor. :-) I have one solution though: what if Rachota starts measuring idle time immediately i.e. right after it's launched? The starting time would not still be recorded though.

Anyway, thanks for your feature request!

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It would be great if you indeed can measuring "idle" time at startup.
I'm running into the same problem, when forgetting to start a task.
This is for me one of the most wanted features.

Or even better:
It would be great if you could select the "auto-start" task.
In stead of "hard-coding" the "idle" task as auto-start task, just make it user-selectable.

Thanks
Henk

[Jiri Kovalsky]

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Henk, it makes a lot sense what you propose! However, such feature would require a slight change in Rachota's core that could potentially destabilize it. In spite of that, this sounds like a good idea so to move further, what would be the best UI? In other words how would you like to select the "auto-start" task?

Thanks for your cooperation!

[Jiri Kovalsky]

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Fixed by Henning Tietgens' patch #1676705. When Rachota is launched, measuring of idle time is automatically started. This functionality can be turned off by changing appropriate value in settings.cfg file to automaticStart = false

Functionality will be available in build #070309 published today. Thanks for your enhancement Henk.

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