Re: Marking a task done

[Christian Egli <christian.egli@novell.com>]

Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin <at> gmail.com> writes:

> When a TODO item is marked "DONE", all TODO items under that tree are 
> automatically marked as "DONE". More generically, the user should be 
> able to customize what states (for me, that is "DONE", "CANCELED", 
> "SUSPENDED", "DELEGATED") will affect the whole subtree like "DONE".

The point of of hierarchical TODOs is that you can group a number of TODOs and
only have one entry in the agenda. If you look at the classical example (which
is even in the documentation AFAIK):

* TODO Organize party
** TODO Invite people
** TODO Bake a cake

In my agenda I see that I have a TODO to organize the party. If I look closer
now (Tab on the agenda entry) I see that I also have to bake a cake. I can now
tick of the subtasks individually and finally mark "Organize party" as DONE once
all subtasks are done. I could also decide that I want to see all the subtasks
in the agenda and hence remove the TODO from "Organize party". This will show
all the subtasks in the agenda. This gives you a lot of flexibility and lets you
group TODOs nicely.

Your proposal pretty much ignores and destroys all of this. Can't you just
select the whole subtree and mark all TODOs in the subtree as DONE? I thought
5.10 introduced this feature.

HTH
Christian