Activity for Aaron Wolf
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Aaron Wolf modified ticket #566
Lost Whole Last Month of Data
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my sympathies! What I do personally is keep my task coach file in a synced directory (like DropBox) so that it is regularly backed up that way as well as the built-in backup. I noticed once that backups were not shown because the window to select them was too small and extending it let me see more backups. I don't expect that is your situation though. If you have no other backup that you do otherwise, then I'm not sure if the data can be retrieved. Hard to know what happened. Besides having auto-save...
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That is a big deal, the 1.4.6 update was very small, this should make it much easier to fix!
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After Windows update, crashes on save or open actions
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somewhere here I've already mentioned that the revival effort is at https://github.com/taskcoach and there are multiple people at least supposedly interested in working on that. I can't predict anything about success or time-frame unfortunately, but encouragement there or recruiting other help is probably worth doing if you can
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After Windows update, crashes on save or open actions
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Mysterious Crashes after CTRL+SHIFT+S
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So, the crazy workaround is to use Task Coach on some system that is pre-Windows-update and not crashing. Open a file. Save it. Close Task Coach. Then get the .ini which should have the info about what file-from-before to start with. https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+faq/1061 Copy/save the .ini and then with the Windows-update still, you should be having Task Coach automatically open the file, and with autosave on, both opening the file and saving will not use the filemanager interface — I...
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Hi all, I'm thinking the main workaround is to turn on autosave (and to quit Task Coach after that so the autosave setting is stored in the .ini). Please confirm whether that at least works. If you do some backup routine of your files, then autosave is less risky, you can go back to a backup snapshot. That's something outside of Task Coach. It's too bad that manual save is broken with this update. I don't think that will be fixed until Task Coach is brought up to newer standards.
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Task Coach Crashes After Installing Windows Update KB5039211
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Task Coach Crashes After Installing Windows Update KB5039211
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Geez, this stinks, second report of this, and since you tried those things, I don't have a solution. I'm imagining we need to get Task Coach finished updating to Python 3 and then work from there to get it to be compatible with the latest system updates. It might be too hard to otherwise track down and fix this bug (and maybe it will just be fixed when everything is updated. See https://github.com/taskcoach for the efforts on the revival Meanwhile, I'll keep this bug ticket open
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Mysterious Crashes after CTRL+SHIFT+S
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I do not know what's going on, but potentially if the revitalizing works out, issues like this will get fixed. I too agree that nothing out there is quite like Task Coach. I want to see it back on track and updated. Glad you have it working for now, closing this for the time being. I can re-open the ticket if needed.
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Mysterious Crashes after CTRL+SHIFT+S
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Incidentally, this is the first ticket where I get to say that efforts to revitalize Task Coach development are at least active. Multiple people together are starting work to get Task Coach updated to newer versions of things so development can then continue. Until that is done, things are still stagnant for updating or fixing though. I think we might be able to solve your problem though. I'm guessing there is an issue with the .ini file that is causing a crashing. So, one way to check that is to...
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I contacted Jerome (who today updated something on the website, so he is responding at all) to come participate in this discussion. My github account is the same as here, "wolftune" Thanks! -- Aaron Wolf wolftune.com http://wolftune.blogspot.com/ El dom, 2 jun 2024 a la(s) 5:40 a.m., Hongshe Liang ( sorn007@users.sourceforge.net) escribió: Hi, Wolf, I have created a taskcoach group on github: https://github.com/taskcoach I don't know about your github account, do you have one? I tried to invite Sylvain...
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I am happy to continue helping where I can (non-code). My personal preference would be to use Codeberg.org because I appreciate their dedication to software-freedom and I like the tooling. It is similar to GitHub. I grant that GitHub has the advantage of being where more people already are. I agree about the move away from SourceForge anyway. I personally only know Git and not Mercurial, but I'm not a programmer really, so my views on this are less relevant. I'm glad that Jerome has not completely...
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Just wanted to post that I'm so so so happy to see two people connecting and working on this. I still use Task Coach all the time, and if development gets back on track and updated to Python3, I will do what I can to help with project management, design, bug tracking etc. all the non-code stuff I've done up to now
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so glad to see you still working on this, thanks!
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files that are needed to retain setup are just the .tsk file and the .ini
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TaskCoach-1.4.6-x86_64.AppImage crashes when creating a new task or subtask (better feedback)
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I don't know if Jerome will look at this, maybe he knows something. Feel free to add updates here if you get any further insights. I don't have any more suggestions at this point, sorry
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only other thought which I doubt is relevant is that you can remove the .delta file that is stored next to the .tsk file (while Task Coach is closed), as that will get recreated next time the file is open. That sometimes is good for cleaning up slowness and such at least.
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A dead end with the Makefile (taskcoach/i18n.in/make.py)
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Switching to python3 - Blocking
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I sure hope Jerome can help, but otherwise, maybe take this to some sort of Python forum and see if people can figure it out?
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Failing to Quit correctly/cleanly
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I'm not sure whether we can resolve this, but you might try clearing (renaming temporarily to keep the old file maybe) the .ini file https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+faq/1061 Then, a new one will be made when you start and then quit Task Coach. It will require resetting preferences and window layout and opening your task file and such, that stuff is saved in the .ini upon quitting.
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Only launches using sudo on Linux
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the config file is the .ini file https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+faq/1061 Not sure if AppImage affects that location Normally, you have to make an AppImage "executable" in the file permissions I think. You should not be running as root with sudo
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TaskCoach-1.4.6-x86_64.AppImage crashes when creating a new task or subtask (better feedback)
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sorry for late reply could .ini file be implicated in issues with this? https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+faq/1061 I could test the AppImage but right now am using a more installed version within Ubuntu-based KDE Neon I'm busy with other priorities, but I did see this and hope we can get things working for you
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Thanks for the update!
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TaskCoach-1.4.6-x86_64.AppImage crashing when creating a new task or subtask
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closing as duplicate of https://sourceforge.net/p/taskcoach/bugs/1722/
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Any progress?
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I used translation help to understand, but Jerome speaks French and might possibly reply. For my view, I will just say that updating Task Coach to Python3 would really be helpful, it would allow it to continue being used by people to use it now, and it could open up the possibility of improving it in the future. I can't say that it is definitely better than starting a new Python3 project, but porting Task Coach would definitely be a helpful thing and would also help you in understanding Python.
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I suspect that source is okay, but I'm not personally familiar with that download site. Task Coach officially links to a couple other download sources: https://www.taskcoach.org/download_for_windows.html If you have used and trust that portableapps website otherwise, fine. If you don't know what it is, then I'd suggest sticking with the Task Coach download links. This SourceForge system is the main way to submit support requests, and I do get the notices and respond still. NextCloud is something...
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I have no security concerns about Task Coach. I don't put the most highly sensitive stuff in it (it has no pass-codes or financial information), and I only use it locally (it's not on a server for anyone else to access), and it's an obscure enough program that it would not be a target anyone would focus on maliciously. Security is the biggest concern with programs that interact with networks. All that said, I'm not going to guarantee anything about security for any software ever. As to Task Coach...
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I have no security concerns about Task Coach. I don't put the most highly sensitive stuff in it (it has no pass-codes or financial information), and I only use it locally (it's not on a server for anyone else to access), and it's an obscure enough program that it would not be a target anyone would focus on maliciously. Security is the biggest concern with programs that interact with networks. All that said, I'm not going to guarantee anything about security for any software ever. As to Task Coach...
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update: I made a more thorough review of tasks.org vs Task Coach and posted it as a discussion here: https://github.com/tasks/tasks/discussions/2660 In short, if you are willing to use Android, this is close enough to recommend. If you want desktop, I have yet to find a comparable replacement.
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I wish I had an easy answer. I still use Task Coach, I do hesitate to recommend it, I don't have a satisfying replacement, and I don't want to recommend proprietary software. I've moved toward keeping more of my notes in plain text files, but for tasks and reminders, I still use Task Coach. There are lots of other task-organizing tools. I'm just not aware of any that do quite what Task Coach does. Someone showed up recently and did more than zero toward trying to spark progress on maintaining Task...
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I wish I had an easy answer. I still use Task Coach, I do hesitate to recommend it, I don't have a satisfying replacement, and I don't want to recommend proprietary software. I've moved toward keeping more of my notes in plain text files, but for tasks and reminders, I still use Task Coach. There are lots of other task-organizing tools. I'm just not aware of any that do quite what Task Coach does. Someone showed up recently and did more than zero toward trying to spark progress on maintaining Task...
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Using Task Coach if not being updated?
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I wish I had an easy answer. I still use Task Coach, I do hesitate to recommend it, I don't have a satisfying replacement, and I don't want to recommend proprietary software. I've moved toward keeping more of my notes in plain text files, but for tasks and reminders, I still use Task Coach. There are lots of other task-organizing tools. I'm just not aware of any that do quite what Task Coach does. Someone showed up recently and did more than zero toward trying to spark progress on maintaining Task...
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Reviving Task Coach development
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Wow, thanks for this effort. I hope Jerome sees this and speaks up about his views. I know he historically has had a strong preference for Mercurial (and, I'm ignorant about it, but I suspect he's right about Mercurual being better, but it's like VHS vs Betamax videotape — better technology does not always win the market, and it's tragic, but we have to deal with the reality of it). I hope that at the least, Jerome would be willing to respond to code questions, provide input and guidance to those...
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9% CPU load without tracking
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I do not have this problem myself. I am running a directly built Task Coach using an older workaround and not the AppImage. Before investigating the code (and seeing if Jerome will reply at all), I have suspicion: the large .tsk file goes with a large .tsk.delta file perhaps? That gets generated as changes are made and is part of the method used to allow multiple Task Coach clients to edit the same file stored on a server. For a single user, it's irrelevant, but it isn't something you can turn off....
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AppImage doesn't start up in wayland
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Thanks for the update, too bad about the issue. Maybe it can be fixed ever, but yeah, I wouldn't expect it.
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I'm sad to hesitate in encouraging you further. Task Coach can do what you want, but it's a bit clunky and not likely to improve since development is stagnant. I don't know of any perfect tool, and the awful trend today is for online Service-as-a-Software-Substitute (i.e. proprietary software you don't even use locally and where your data is on someone else's computer and if you stop paying monthly rent access, you lose the software, let alone the software being proprietary). So, that said, if you...
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I'm sad to hesitate in encouraging you further. Task Coach can do what you want, but it's a bit clunky and not likely to improve since development is stagnant. I don't know of any perfect tool, and the awful trend today is for online Service-as-a-Software-Substitute (i.e. proprietary software you don't even use locally and where your data is on someone else's computer and if you stop paying monthly rent access, you lose the software, let alone the software being proprietary). So, that said, if you...
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AppImage doesn't start up in wayland
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Assigning to Jerome since I don't know. I could test but have too many other priorities. I'm still using xwindows in KDE Neon personally. I will have a huge hassle to shift to Wayland in the future if I have to finally move away from Task Coach. Currently, it's still working with my current setup… If Jerome assigns back to me or ignores this, I'll leave it open to look into more sometime. Not sure if I will be able to figure anything out though.
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Assuming you are using "categories" correctly as a word here, they are indeed tags. Each task can have any number of categories and subcategories. If you want to get the totals for a single task, make an effort viewer for selected tasks, and dock it somewhere (viewers start floating so you can drag them where you want in the main window pane). You can then click on a task, and the viewer will show efforts for just that task. Or multiple if you select multiple. Unfortunately, there's no total-total,...
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I'm not sure I follow how you are trying to do this. You can do "new viewer" under the View menu and add "effort" or "effort for selected task". (Also, viewers can be docked to the main window). When you then filter by categories, it will indeed filter to just the shown items. To see totals, you can choose "effort per day" or per week or per month instead of "effort details". Besides those options which might do it for you, you can export tasks so that you can open them in a spreadsheet rather than...
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Total "Time Spent" of the subcategories
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I'm not sure I follow how you are trying to do this. You can do "new viewer" under the View menu and add "effort" or "effort for selected task". (Also, viewers can be docked to the main window). When you then filter by categories, it will indeed filter to just the shown items. To see totals, you can choose "effort per day" or per week or per month instead of "effort details". Besides those options which might do it for you, you can export tasks so that you can open them in a spreadsheet rather than...
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Crash when click any buttons
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I don't know how to make sense of this myself, but you can try clearing the .ini file and see if that helps, let me know: https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+faq/1061
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tuxpaint --fullscreen=native stretches across my two screens on KDE Neon 5.27 (which is pretty similar to Kubuntu 22.04) with Tuxpaint Version 0.9.27 (2022-01-04) Also, besides true fullscreen (probably best for kids), an option for near-full-screen but staying maximized would be ideal, like windowed normally and not covering system trays, the size of any maximized non-full-screen window.
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Make native fullscreen the default
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Dark mode with light-on-dark tools and black background start
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I don't know what it would take to get someone to get the code all updated to Python3 and then to continue development from there. I imagine that starting fresh would make more sense today. I would love if some uncompromised FLO task management project would take insights from Task Coach in the design. There are just things nothing else handles as well.
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I still use Task Coach myself, and I would keep doing all I can if we had some programmers helping with the code, if development were not stagnant. I'm slowly moving a lot of my organizing to simple text files for some references, but my important personal tasks for my life are still in Task Coach now. I still have not seen anything that can replace it.
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No printer appears to be defined in AppImage version
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Sorry, can't prioritize helping you debug this, but please let us know if you get it resolved. I'm not familiar with the issues involved. Jerome might answer, but he too is busy and not active here much. How about trying the export functions so that you can get the data you want in another program to print?
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settings.py:474: UnicodeWarning: Unicode unequal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
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Unfortunately, Task Coach development is stagnant. It uses Python2 still and a huge amount of work is required for it to even get to Python3 let alone other maintenance and updates. I still use it myself though. If you know anyone who might be interested in volunteering to help with the code updates, please recruit them to the project. I don't know about the specific error, maybe Jerome knows something. You might try renaming the .ini file while Task Coach is closed to see if that helps. https:/...
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where are files for tasks located on linux
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You have to actually save a .tsk file or it won't be saved. If you haven't saved, you'll be prompted to if you normally quit (not forced or crashed). You can choose to save the .tsk file with your name and location however you like. The config file should be in ~/.config/Task Coach
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where are files for tasks located on linux
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All my tasks are gone
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Hi, sympathies on what must feel quite distressing. Maybe you just need to open the .tsk file. The program can load and save multiple task files. I hope you haven't been just keeping it open with never ever quitting and never saving. That might lead to loss of data. There is an auto-save function though, that is turned on or off in the preferences. If you can't find and just open the task file, there's a chance a backup exists. To figure this out, you first need to just try opening a file or otherwise...
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I have a vague memory that maybe the .deb was updated to not need that whole workaround. Maybe the .deb just worked on 20.04 now. Maybe it can be updated to work with 22.04 even. But the only real answer is to get help updating everything to Python3. We might have more luck eventually getting someone to make a modern tool that includes all the features of Task Coach. The design is still one that nothing else out there fully covers. I still use it myself
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There's no simple way to get it to work because Task Coach needs to be overhauled to Python3, and nobody is readily working on it which means it is slowly getting obsolete unless that progress can happen. You can put the AppImage somewhere prominent or add a shortcut somehow, all of that is related to any case of AppImage. I can't guide you on that, but there are things out there for how to best manage AppImage apps. Task Coach should ideally recall the last open file if you simply quit with a file...
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There's no simple way to get it to work because Task Coach needs to be overhauled to Python3, and nobody is readily working on it which means it is slowly getting obsolete unless that progress can happen. You can put the AppImage somewhere prominent or add a shortcut somehow, all of that is related to any case of AppImage. I can't guide you on that, but there are things out there for how to best manage AppImage apps. Task Coach should ideally recall the last open file if you simply quit with a file...
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(re-)installing on Ubuntu 22.04?
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(re-)installing on Ubuntu 22.04?
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You just need to use the AppImage from https://www.taskcoach.org/download_for_linux.html We really need to remove or qualify the mention of PPA on the website since the PPA is not maintained or updated and there's no likelihood of it at this time.
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Error on quit of Taskcoach
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Did you have task coach open while removing the .ini file? Task Coach needs to be closed, and then delete the .ini, and then restart Task Coach. Please confirm.
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Error on quit of Taskcoach
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Not sure what's going on, but can you do a quick test of clearing (deleting or renaming) the .ini file and try again fresh from there to see if that fixes it? https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+faq/1061
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Provide the ability to assign a task to a specific person
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Just want to reply to tell you that development is pretty much stagnant. If it can get going again some day, it will be after a major overhaul of the code from Python2 to Python3, and we're not on track to do that. Jerome, the main coder, would like to make it happen but has been focusing on other things in his life and not made time for Task Coach much in quite a while. If you know anyone who would like to volunteer to help with that code work, please get them in touch with us.
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I see why that's confusing. Do "close" in the file menu to close the current task file. Then, you have a fresh nothing which you can start making tasks in and saving as a new file.
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Glad you got the install working, but I don't know what to do next. I would test with made-up new tasks in a new task file. If it works there, then it's something with the task file it seems. If it fails, then it is probably related to the .ini Is there a version of Application Data directory that is not within your user? Maybe "ProgramData" or "Program Files" within Windows? I don't know Windows, but you can probably find some advice on how to search so that you can find throughout the system where...
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It's definitely safe to rename the .ini file because you can always delete the new one and rename the old one back. It should be safe to uninstall and reinstall also, but I can't 100% guarantee. You could try asking someone with a similar system to install the new version and make sure it works for them. One way or another, it should be feasible to install. If it were me, I'd feel okay doing the uninstall and reinstall of new version.
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Sorry, I'm not sure I know how to help. You may try uninstalling. The instructions I don't know about, and I'm not familiar with Windows. To fully reset Task Coach, try renaming or removing the .ini file see https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+faq/1061 If you are seeing the newest version number in the about when using the program, you are running it successfully. I just tested myself doing CSV export on GNU/Linux and it worked fine. Unfortunately, development has been stalled for years now....
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The official site is https://www.taskcoach.org/ and the download link is https://www.taskcoach.org/download_for_windows.html we do have a historic formal partnership with fosshub, so getting it from there should be okay. But anyway, you can try the other site. Let me know from there once you have it installed or if installation still fails
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New Version Installation
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So, realizing that you were using the portable version, did you clear the portable .ini with Task Coach closed and try just starting again with a fresh .ini and seeing if that solves the whole issue? I would suspect that should solve it. As far as making a new task file, I meant just to see if you could reproduce the issue with a small new tsk file. And if not, you could try using copy/paste within the new file to get to a large quantity of tasks or just make a large quantity. I want to know if you...
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IDE mess up when "effort for selected task" is set to show
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I'm going to reassign to Jerome in case he can help. I'll still keep tabs on this. Can you try exporting an anonymous version of the Task File (Under Help > Anonymize) and attaching it here so I or Jerome can try to see if we can reproduce the problem? Also, do you get a problem if you just start a new Task file from scratch?
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I didn't see any verification that you tried renaming or deleting the .ini file. None of the setup of the UI is in the .tsk file. That file only has the content of the tasks. Please confirm that you have cleared the .ini file as I mentioned above while Task Coach is closed and then start task coach after that.
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I know that @fraca7 Jerome has identified at least some of the specific changes needed to update to Python 3. He's hopefully available to at least answer questions if not collaborate at all. Besides doing patches here or opening a thread in the discussions, you can try developers@taskcoach.org and hopefully he'll reply. I can try other ways to ping him. Appreciate the help!
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