GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 318479
Debian Bug #252514: gantt chart should have horizontal row coloring like task view
Last modified: 2006-05-20 02:01:37 UTC
Please describe the problem: The gantt chart doesn't have alternating row colors making it quite hard to see what task listet on the left corresponds to which bar in the gantt chart. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information: This is an old bug report remaining in the Debian BTS. It probably was fixed already but I'm hereby polling the upstream authors to verify. If it's fixed, I will close the corresponding bugs in the Debian BTS.
Non-working days are already shown in an alternative colour in the Gantt chart. Therefore I don't think that also alternating row colours in the Gantt chart will bring clarity. Au contraire ... An alternative approach might be to just highlight the currently selected task in Gantt chart as well. This limits the visual overhead while still solving the problem I think. What do others think?
There needs to be a way to discern at one glance to what a task on the left, in the task view corresponds to on the right, in the gant chart. At the moment it is not evident and one will possibly need a ruler or a paper to find out so, when there are many task close by. I still think that alternating colours or lines would be useful - I guess it's a question of tuning the colour values to the right shade, that doesn't get on ones nerves and doesn't distract but is just visible enough to serve as a ruler. But whatever makes the chart more intuitively understandable is fine.
This seems to be similar to Bug 303374, maybe this one should be a duplicate?
Agreed - marking as duplicate of 303374. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 303374 ***