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hamster-applet package

Can't remove category when editing a task

Bug #971757 reported by Mike Doherty
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This bug affects 2 people
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hamster-applet (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

I entered a task, then later added a category by adding @category. Now I can't remove it - when I remove the @ and everything after it, and save, the editing dialog closes, but the category isn't shown as removed in the main window. Re-editing shows that the text is unchanged, and @category is still present.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: hamster-applet 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-40.87-generic 2.6.32.57+drm33.23
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-40-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 2 14:00:23 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110720.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hamster-applet

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Mike Doherty (doherty) wrote :
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Geoffrey van Wyk (geoffrey-van-wyk) wrote :

@doherty,

Did you add the category while the task was still being tracked or after tracking has been stopped?

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Mike Doherty (doherty) wrote :

I think it was after tracking had stopped.

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Geoffrey van Wyk (geoffrey-van-wyk) wrote :

I found the same thing. I used an activity that does not appear in the Activities list of any of my Categories, including the Unsorted category. I tracked the activity for a few minutes, stopped tracking and then added a category. I could not afterwards remove the category.

It appears that once a tracked activity, which was previously Unsorted, is placed in a named catergory, you cannot revert that tracked activity to Unsorted. This happens regardless of whether the category is tagged during or after tracking.

A workaround is to start tracking a new instance of the Unsorted activity, stop tracking it after about a minute, and then replace its start and finish times with those of the irrevocably categorised instance of the activity. Delete the categorised tracked activity.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in hamster-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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