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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

The present implementation is already somewhat divided between a view
(TaskView) and a controller (TaskEditor), the text model being also
mostly burried in the TaskView widget. However, I the clear
identification of who's doing what is not clear in this
implementation. Moreover, we don't have a clean "task" model (Title,
tags, subtask list, etc.) , we merely try to force a specific text
structure in the generic text model, which lead to a poor API.

So, I guess if you can manage a clean MVC architecture with a nice
task model and API, it would be great!

On a side note: it would be also interesting to think the editor as a
standalone component, that would communicate with GTG through DBUS,
but this can be quite a lot of work to make it work, so feel free to
ignore. I just mention it for the record.

Bertrand

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Izidor Matušov
<izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The more I think about how to make the Task Editor easier to maintain, I
>> was wondering what everyone thinks about using a model-view-controller
>> type architecture in the rewriting of it? To me this would benefit us
>> greatly in the fact that all the code will be split up into smaller
>> pieces, which will make everything easier to read and find bugs. This
>> will also help in refactoring easier down the line because when a new
>> GTK+ version comes out and GTG decides to move to that version, we don't
>> have to rewrite the entire editor, we can just plug our controller with
>> the new user interface. What does everyone else think about this?
>
>
> Great idea! I think it is must. Could you describe more how it should work
> for our editor? I have clear image of using MVC for web apps. I am eager to
> hear more details :)
>
> Izidor
>
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Bertrand Rousseau