general: Port Flowtime to Rust

[Diego-Ivan]

This is a proof of concept and I will eventually decide if I really want to port Flowtime to Rust (probably yes though)

TODO: This is a proof of concept and I will eventually decide if I really want to port Flowtime to Rust (probably yes though)

TODO:

• Main Window

  • [ ] Confirm close dialog when a timer is running

• Application

  • [ ] Inhbit shutdown when a timer is running
  • [ ] Pause timer once the state has changed

• Settings Service

  • [x] Port settings service

• Timer Service:

  • [x] Add Work/Break Mode
  • [x] Save progress into statistics
  • [x] Use settings to automatically start next stage

• Statistics Service:

  • [x] Load and save statistics
  • [ ] Discard the days that are already over the user-set limit
  • [ ] Reimplement 'most productive day of the week' feature
  • [ ] Expose API to get week, month and all time work/break times

• Color Provider

  • [ ] Port Color Provider service
  • [ ] Consider whether or not to use the user's preferred accent colors or hard-code Flowtime's Blue and Green

• Background Status:

  • [ ] Port background status service

• Screensaver Service

  • [ ] Port screensaver service

• Pending Widgets to port:

  • [ ] Preferences Window
  • [ ] Timer Page
    • [ ] Fix bug that shows the wrong icon for pause/play
  • [ ] Sound row
  • [ ] Stat Graph
  • [ ] StatInfo + StatPage
    • [ ] Reimplement using the GtkFilterListModel models for break and work lists
    • [ ] Maybe consider implementing filtering by time period

[Rirusha]

A matter of curiosity: What's wrong with Vala?

[Diego-Ivan]

@Rirusha Nothing wrong with Vala, I really like it. I just wanted to experiment more with other languages since Vala was the only one I was writing for apps, and I also like Rust so I just gave it a chance for this.