Coloring started tasks

[fabiospampinato]

As implemented in #268 this extension could color started tasks with a different color.

Preview: https://pasteboard.co/JqO134S.gif

Is that something that you'd want? If so add a "👍" to this post.

[CaptnCodr]

An extra symbol would be nice for the "started" state.
Maybe "⭕" as default. "Circle" because it's in progress.

[fsevenm]

An extra symbol would be nice for the "started" state.
Maybe "o" as default. "Circle" because it's in progress.

Nice idea, IMO

[CaptnCodr]

Maybe "⭕" as default. "Circle" because it's in progress.

Additionally, [o] and [O] could also be default in this category.

[fsevenm]

I've updated the fork, updated the icon of started tasks, made it counted in statistic and also made it configurable in the settings as the others. These are some images that may help me visualize it.

The classic version:

You can try this enhancement now btw, it's at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fsevenm.vscode-todo-plus. Yes, I publish it in marketplace, but will take it down asap when the pr gets merged.

[CaptnCodr]

@fsevenm Could you also add the todo.timekeeping.started.enabled property to configure, as like the created and finished property?
To have the option to enable/disable the @started tag on the task and consistency over the states. I don't always have activated the time and don't want to have any tags on them. That would be great!

Overall it works fine on my machine. Thanks for the practical "preview".

[fsevenm]

Yeah, forgot that one. It's nice idea. I'll update the extension soon.

[CaptnCodr]

@fsevenm In addition: there's something different than the other states, see:

The dots configured color before the task when marked.

[fsevenm]

@CaptnCodr Sorry, just come back here after a couple of weeks. I've just pushed an update to the extension. It allows you to disable @started tag via config.

And about the dots problem, I cannot reproduce that. It's just fine on mine. See this,

[CaptnCodr]

This is great!

When you select the whole line then the colored dots appear:

Edit:
I enabled "show whitespaces" in vscode and there are always colored dots:

[fsevenm]

@CaptnCodr It's weird, I enabled "Render Whitespace" and it's just fine.

I am using VS Code 1.52.1 on linux machine. What's yours?

[CaptnCodr]

@fsevenm I'm using VS Code 1.52.1 on Windows.

[CaptnCodr]

Your newest preview (4.19.3) works as expected. Approved from me. 🙂

Thank you, @fsevenm. 👍

[fsevenm]

Thank You @CaptnCodr. Glad to hear it works now. I was on Windows in virtualbox, so I was able to reproduce your issue and made a fix for that. It's only on Windows I guess.

[House-of-Leaves]

Thank you for this; having the started tasks coloured with a different icon is really helpful!

The only thing I've noted is that the number on the line for a Project that shows the number of pending tasks only takes into account tasks not started now, started tasks are not included in the count. I believe originally pending and started tasks were included in the count?

Apologies if I have missed this and it is switchable somewhere. Many thanks.

[fsevenm]

@House-of-Leaves Did you mean the number of pending tasks in the status bar?

[House-of-Leaves]

@fsevenm Thank you for the swift reply. Sorry, I should have explained better.

Previously a project listing would have looked something like this:

The top line with the project title would include the number of outstanding tasks in parentheses, in this case (2)

When using the new version with the different icon for started tasks, the same todo now looks like this:

The number of outstanding tasks now shows (1)

Many thanks.

[House-of-Leaves]

I've figured out I can work around this by changing the settings to something like:

"todo.statistics.project.text": "(P:[pending] S:[doing])

It is whether it's possible to have a statistics token that is the sum of [pending] and [doing], as I presume [finished] is the sum of [done] and [cancelled]