Glista

A few hours ago, I've merged the Reminders feature I've been working on recently to trunk.

The feature is not entirely polished and is definitely still buggy, but I feel it's stable enough and mature enough to go into the main development trunk.

This feature will allow the user to set a reminder on each item - it's a bit like "due time" concept only I don't believe in waiting for the due time of a task to get reminded - so I just call it "reminder" and you can set it to whatever time you want and not to your due time necessarily.

Currently the actual reminder is done using libnotify - which is very nice but might not be available everywhere. However, I've designed this feature so that the actual mechanism that alerts the user when a reminder is due is pluggable - so alerting can be done in various ways. The alerting plugin can not be selected at runtime yet - but I hope to make it happen soon.

So the idea is that you check out the code from svn and start playing around with this new feature. Send me your feedback and bug reports, or post your thoughts in the discussion group - I want to know if it's going in the right direction.

Version 0.4 of Glista is out, which some exciting new features!

Besides several bug fixes, memory leak fixes and the usual code reorganization, this version adds two new major features, both of which are due to poplar demand:

First, single instance detection is now possible if you have libUnique installed and compile Glista against it. This means that whenever you run Glista, it will make sure that only one instance of the program is running. If you try to run a second instance, it will only pop-up the already running instance and exit.

Second, thanks to some code contribution from jcinacio, we added note support. You can now add notes and comments to any item in your to-do list. The notes feature also supports GtkSpell (if available) for spell checking, and will automatically linkify URLs as you type them.

See the Usage page for more information on this feature.

I am happy to announce the next preview release of Glista, marked 0.3.

The major addition in this version is category support. This feature allows you to organize your to-do items into categories, without the hassle of managing those categories separately.
Check out the Usage section in the home page for usage information.

This version also adds a Gentoo ebuild, as well as lots of bug fixes and minor optimizations.