Wow, I just read Jonathan's blog entry and his list of changes in the pipeline for Kubuntu. It looks amazing, like a shopping list of pet hates or little wishes for KDE :) My personal favourite has to be redesigning the Kat GUI and integrating it with Konqueror.

It also reminded me that I'd worked out the answer to my previous blog whine about session management and integration quite a while ago, in a post to kde-artists.org. Well, the session/project management part, at least. That post is a bit long, so here's a short workflow:

1. KDE has a plasmoid somewhere that handles project management
2. I get an email from one of my essay supervisors with some thoughts on my first draft. I drop that onto the plasmoid and it presents a simple dialogue, which asks me which project I want to add it to, gives me the option to create a new one, and has a toggle that will include the item in the list of things to launch when I use the "launch project" feature
3. I can do the same with any web page, email (thread), document on my hard drive, etc.
4. Using the plasmoid I can quickly bring up a list of projects, and see the items associated with each project. This would be a handy TODO list, requiring minimal work on my part to maintain (unlike every other TODO tool I've used)
5. Clicking on any item brings it up in the appropriate app
6. Clicking on a project launches all those items that have the "launch project" toggle turned on. So I can quickly restore a "session", such as "writing my well-being essay"

This way I get the most simple TODO tool imaginable, and an easy way for me to jump in and out of my various projects. I'd imagine that with Tenor integration it could be even funkier :)

I should also thank my good friend Bob for hearing me out on my zany ideas. Here he is on Halloween: