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<bookinfo>
<title>The &karm; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Jonathan</firstname>
<surname>Singer</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>jsinger@leeta.net</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>

<author>
<firstname>Mark</firstname>
<surname>Bucciarelli</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>mark@hubcapconsulting.com</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>

<author>
<firstname>Sirtaj</firstname>
<othername>Singh</othername>
<surname>Kang</surname>
<affiliation><address><email>taj@kde.org</email></address></affiliation>
</author>

<othercredit role="reviewer">
<firstname>Lauri</firstname>
<surname>Watts</surname>
<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
<affiliation><address><email>lauri@kde.org</email></address></affiliation>
</othercredit>
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</authorgroup>

<copyright>
<year>2000-2004</year>
<holder>Jonathan Singer</holder>
</copyright>

<copyright>
<year>2004-2005</year>
<holder>Mark Bucciarelli</holder>
</copyright>

<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>2005-02-02</date>
<releaseinfo>1.5.0</releaseinfo>

<abstract><para>&karm; tracks time spent on various tasks.</para></abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>karm</keyword>
<keyword>kdeutils</keyword>
<keyword>time</keyword>
<keyword>tracker</keyword>
<keyword>project</keyword>
</keywordset>

</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>&karm; tracks time spent on various tasks.  It is useful for tracking
	billable hours and can report the hours logged by task and day.</para>

<para>This time history can be exported to a comma-delimited text file for
	import into other billing and/or project management tools.</para>

<para>&karm; detects when your keyboard and mouse are idle and can associate
	different tasks with different desktops, two tools that can help keep the
	timer running on the correct task.</para>

<para>&karm; was originally written by Sirtaj Singh Kang. The word
<quote>karm</quote> means <quote>work</quote> or <quote>deeds</quote> in the
author's native Punjabi and is the same word (but a better transliteration)
as <quote>karma</quote>.</para>

</chapter>


<chapter id="using-Karm">
<title>Using &karm;</title>

<sect1 id="starting">
<title>Starting &karm;</title>

<para>Type <command>karm</command> at a command prompt or select
<guimenuitem>Personal Time Tracker</guimenuitem> from the
<guisubmenu>Utilities</guisubmenu> group in the <guimenu>KDE start
menu</guimenu>. The standard &Qt; and &kde; command options are
available, and can be listed by entering
<userinput><command>karm</command> <option>--help</option></userinput>
at the command line.</para>

<para>&karm; provides an additional command option that allows you to enter
the name of the iCalendar file that is used to store your labor history.
You enter a remote iCalendar file by using http or ftp as part of the file
name; for example, http://www.mysite.com/mydata/mylabor.ics.</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="general-use">
<title>Tasks</title>

<informalexample>
<para><emphasis>Problem:</emphasis> You are a free software consultant with
many clients.  Some clients have multiple projects.  During the course of a
day, you switch back and forth between different projects.  You need to track
your time to generate monthly invoices.</para>
<para><emphasis>Solution:</emphasis> Create one top-level task for each client
and a subtask for each client project.  For projects that require more
detailed tracking, create a list of project subtasks.  Track time by
double-clicking on task you are currently working on.</para>
</informalexample>

<para>&karm; provides great flexibility in tracking your time, allowing
unlimited tasks and task depth.  Time may be logged to any task, and more than
one task can be active at any given time.</para>

<para>
To create a top-level task, select
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Task</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>New</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>

To create a subtask, pick the parent task and select

<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Task</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>New Subtask</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</para>

<para>When &karm; exits, the task list is saved to the file specified in 
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure KArm</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.
When it next opens, it reloads the task list from the same file.</para>

<para>&karm; can import and export tasks to minimize your work. See <link linkend="interfaces">Other Systems</link>.</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="timers"><title>Timers</title>

<informalexample>
<para><emphasis>Problem:</emphasis> To remain solvent, you must bill an
average of five hours a day.  To stay on track, you watch your daily and
weekly totals.</para>
<para><emphasis>Solution:</emphasis> Reset the session timer at the
beginning of each work day and reset all timers at the beginning of each
week.</para> </informalexample>

<para>&karm; makes tracking time simple.  To start logging time against a
task, double-click on the task.  To stop logging time, double-click
the task again.  Active tasks display a small clock in the <guilabel>Session
Time</guilabel> column.</para>
	
<para>Another visual clue of logging activity is the &karm; system tray icon.
When a task is active, the second hand in the icon moves.  If you rest the
mouse pointer over this icon, the name of the active task will display in a
tooltip.  If more than one task is active, the task names in the tooltip are 
separated by commas.</para>

<para>&karm; maintains two timers for each task: one for the session time
and one for the total time.  In the default configuration, &karm; displays
two columns for each timer, resulting in a total of four columns for each task:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Session Time</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>The time spent on the task since the session
began.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> 

<varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Total Session Time</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>The time spent on the task and all it's subtasks since the
session began.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> 
<varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Time</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>The time
spent on the task since all times were reset.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry> 

<varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Total Time</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>The time spent on the task and all it's subtasks since all
times were reset.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> 
</variablelist>

<para>To start a new session, select
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Start New Session</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</para>

<para>To reset all times, select
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Reset All Times</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</para>

<sect2><title>Desktop Tracking</title>

<informalexample>
<para><emphasis>Problem:</emphasis> You have two main projects that you
switch between each day.  To help organize your work, you keep your project
1 files on Desktop 1 and your project 2 files on Desktop
2.</para>

<para><emphasis>Solution:</emphasis> Associate project 1 task with Desktop 1
and the project 2 task with Desktop 2.  When you switch from Desktop 2 to
Desktop 1 active, &karm; automatically stops the project 2 task and starts
the project 1 task.</para>
</informalexample>

<para>To associate a task with a one or more desktops, select
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>E</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Task</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Edit</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.

Turn on <guilabel>Auto tracking</guilabel> and select the desktop or desktops
to associate with this task.  When any of the selected desktops becomes active,
after a short delay &karm; will be automatically start logging time against
that task.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Idle Detection</title>

<informalexample> <para><emphasis>Problem:</emphasis> You leave work early on
Friday to run an errand and forget to stop the timer.  When you return on
Monday, the timer is still running.</para>
<para><emphasis>Solution:</emphasis> Turn on idle detection.</para>
</informalexample>

<para>&karm; can be configured to detect when the mouse and keyboard become
 idle.  If the mouse and keyboard are idle for longer than the specified
 number of minutes, &karm; displays the following dialog:</para>

<screenshot>
 <screeninfo>&karm; Idle Detection</screeninfo>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="idle-detect.png" format="PNG"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <phrase>&karm; Idle Detection Dialog</phrase>
          </textobject>
        </mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><guibutton>Revert &amp; Stop</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Subtract the amount of idle time from all active timers and
stop them.</para><para>You were not working on the task(s) while you
computer was idle and you are still are
not.</para></listitem></varlistentry> 

<varlistentry> <term><guibutton>Revert &amp; Continue</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Subtract the amount of idle time from all active timers but
keep them running.</para><para>You were not working on the task(s) while
your computer was idle but you are now.  </para></listitem></varlistentry> 

<varlistentry> <term><guibutton>Continue Timing</guibutton></term>
<listitem><para>Apply the idle time to all active timers and keep them
running.</para><para>You were working on the task(s) while your computer
was idle and still are.  </para></listitem></varlistentry> </variablelist>

</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="reporting"><title>Reporting</title>

<para>&karm; provides three ways to report on time you have logged.  You can
send the session and time totals to the printer, copy the time totals to the
clipboard, or copy the time history to the clipboard.</para>

<sect2><title>Print Totals</title>
<para>To generate the totals report for the printer, select
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>P</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Print</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.
This generates a three-column report for the complete list of tasks.  The
first column is the task name, the second column is the <guilabel>Total
Session Time</guilabel> and the third column is the <guilabel>Total
Time</guilabel>.</para>
</sect2>

<sect2><title>Clip Totals</title>
<para>To generate the totals report to the clipboard, select
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>C</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Copy Totals to Clipboard</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.
</para>

<para>This report is generated for the currently selected task and all it's
subtasks.  If the current task is a top-level task, &karm; asks you if you
want to generate the report for the current task and it's subtasks or for the
entire task list.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&karm; Copy This Task</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="copy-this-task.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&karm; Copy This Task Dialog</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>Once the report is generated, open KEdit or some other text editor and
paste the report data.</para>

<literallayout>
<computeroutput>
Task Totals
2004-07-10 02:26

  Time    Task
----------------------------------------------
  9:14    kde
   9:14    karm
    1:08    bugs
    0:00    checkin changes
   0:00    promo
   0:00    web stuff
----------------------------------------------
  9:14 Total
</computeroutput>
</literallayout>

<para>The first column is the <guilabel>Total Time</guilabel> and is indented
(like the task names) to indicate task/sub-task relationships.  The reported times
include the sub-task times.</para> 

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Clip History</title>

<para>To generate the totals report to the clipboard, select
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>C</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Copy History to Clipboard</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.
</para>

<important><para>You must turn on the <guilabel>Log History</guilabel> option in
<menuchoice> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Configure
KArm</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>.  Otherwise, &karm; only keeps track of
totals and not the detailed task history.</para></important>

<para>This report is generated for the currently selected task and all it's
subtasks. You also have the choice to generate it for all tasks.</para>

<para>When you select the history report, &karm; first prompts you to enter the
date range for the report:</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&karm; Enter Date Range</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="daterange.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&karm; Enter Date Range</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>After entering a date range, open KEdit or some other text editor and
paste the report data.</para>

<literallayout>
<computeroutput>
Task History
From Thursday 01 July 2004 to Monday 12 July 2004
Printed on: 2004-07-12 17:18

                               Week of Monday 05 July 2004
     5     6     7     8     9    10    11
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                             0:00 kde
                                             0:00  dc
              !:22  1:46  3:14  1:44         8:06  karm
                                             0:00   3.2 feature plan
              1:08                           1:08   bugs
                                             0:00   checkin changes
                                             0:00  promo
                                             0:00  web stuff
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
              2:30  1:46  3:14  1:44         9:14 Total
</computeroutput>
</literallayout>

<para>The task history is totaled for each day and task, grouped by week.  The
first seven columns are Monday through Sunday.  The eighth column is the total
for the week and the ninth column is the task name.  The task names are
indented to indicate the task/sub-task relationships.</para>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="interfaces">
<title>Other Systems</title>
<sect2 id="korganizer"><title>KOrganizer</title>

<para>&karm;, like KOrganizer and Apple's iCal, uses the industry standard
<ulink
url="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/index.html">iCalendar</ulink>
format for its data.  &karm; can read and write the to do lists created by
these two applications.</para>

<warning><para>If both &karm; and KOrganizer have the same file open, if you
edit the file with KOrganizer, you risk losing data.  To be safe,
only edit the file with one application or the other.</para></warning>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="planner"><title>Planner</title>

<para>As a typical usecase, you might want to plan a project with the project 
management tool Imendio Planner 
(from <ulink url="http://planner.imendio.org">planner.imendio.org</ulink>) 
and import its tasks to &karm;, to have them in the industry 
standard <ulink
url="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/index.html">iCalendar</ulink> 
format. Having done so, you are able to schedule the tasks in KOrganizer, and account your time 
to them in &karm;. That's one way to help ensure your project stays on time
and under budget.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="dcop"><title>&DCOP;</title>

<para>&DCOP; is the mechanism KDE programs use to communicate with each
other.  A KDE program provides a list of functions that other programs (a Bash
script, for example) can use.</para>

<example><title>Bash script that echo's &karm;'s version</title>
<programlisting>
	DCOPID=`dcop | grep karm`
	if [ $DCOPID ]
	then
		VERS=`dcop $DCOPID KarmDCOPIface version`
		echo "&karm; version is $VERS"
	else
		echo "&karm; not running"
	fi
</programlisting>
</example>

<para>&karm;'s current &DCOP; interface is currently used mainly for automated
	testing, so it is very limited.  For the full interface definition, see
	<link linkend="dcopappendix">&DCOP; Interface Appendix</link>.</para>

<para>To see the full &DCOP; interface of the &karm; version installed on your
	system, run the following Bash script:</para>

<example><title>List &karm;'s &DCOP; interface to console</title>
<programlisting>
	DCOPID=`dcop | grep karm`
	if [ $DCOPID ]
	then
		dcop $DCOPID KarmDCOPIface
	else
		echo "&karm; not running"
	fi
</programlisting>
</example>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="csv-export"><title>Export Totals to CSV</title>

<para>&karm; can export both totals and history to a comma-delimited file
format.  To export totals, select
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Import/Export</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Export to CSV file...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice> and &karm; displays the following export dialog:</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&karm; CSV Export Dialog</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="csvexport.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&karm; CSV Export Dialog</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>Enter the file you would like to export the data to, and modify the
other dialog defaults if necessary.  Note that the date range control is
disabled since you are exporting time totals, not the history data.  Click
<guibutton>Export</guibutton> and &karm; exports the totals for all tasks to
the file you selected.</para>

<para>Here is an example of the output format:</para>

<literallayout>
<computeroutput>
"kde",,,,,0.00,0.00,6.88,9.83
,"karm",,,,6.88,8.70,6.88,9.83
,,"3.2 feature plan",,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
,,"bugs",,,0.00,1.13,0.00,1.13
,,"checkin changes - translation strings",,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
,,"time card report",,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
,"kopete",,,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
,"promo",,,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
,"web stuff",,,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
</computeroutput>
</literallayout>

<para>Top-level tasks are output in the first column, sub-tasks in the second,
and so on.  The time data is output after the maximum task depth (five in
this example).  The first time column is <guilabel>Session Time</guilabel>,
the second is <guilabel>Time</guilabel>, the third is <guilabel>Total Session
Time</guilabel> and the fourth is the <guilabel>Total Time</guilabel>.
</para>


</sect2>

<sect2 id="csv-export-history"><title>Export History to CSV</title>

<para>To export task history, select
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Import/Export</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Export History to CSV file...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice> and &karm; displays the same export dialog as shown above.</para>

<para>Enter the file you would like to export the data to, and select a date
range that you want the task history.  Modify the other dialog defaults if
necessary.  Click <guibutton>Export</guibutton> and &karm; exports the
task history for all tasks to the file you selected.</para>

<para>Here is an example of the output format:</para>

<literallayout>
<computeroutput>
Task History
From Tuesday 06 July 2004 to Tuesday 13 July 2004
Printed on: 2004-07-13 18:10
2004-07-06,2004-07-07,2004-07-08,2004-07-09,2004-07-10,2004-07-11,2004-07-12,2004-07-13,
,,,,,,,,0.00,"kde"
,,1.77,3.23,1.73,,1.37,0.82,8.95,,"karm"
,,,,,,,,0.00,,,"3.2 feature plan"
,1.13,,,,,,,1.13,,,"bugs"
,,,,,,,,0.00,,,"checkin changes - translation strings"
,,,,,,,,0.00,,,"time card report"
,,,,,,,,0.00,,"kopete"
,,,,,,,,0.00,,"promo"
,,,,,,,,0.00,,"web stuff"
</computeroutput>
</literallayout>

<para>The three lines identify when the report was generated and for which
date range.  The fourth row is a comma-delimited list of the dates in the
date range, in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD).  All subsequent rows list the
time logged against each task.   The last numeric column is the row total
across all days.  The task name prints after the total column, and is indented
to indicate the task/sub-task relationship.  Top level task names appear
in the first column after the total.</para>

</sect2>
</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="interface">
<title>The &karm; interface</title>

<para>The main &karm; window has the following components: menubar, toolbar,
task/time window and status bar.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>&karm; Screen</screeninfo>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="karm.png" format="PNG"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <phrase>&karm; Screen</phrase>
          </textobject>
        </mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<sect1 id="main-window">
<title>The Task/Time window</title>

<para>The various tasks are displayed in this window, along with the
time accumulated for each in the current session and in total. Tasks
being timed have a small clock icon next to the session time.</para>

<para>Subtasks can be created for each task. Clicking the plus sign and 
minus sign in front of the main task toggles the view of its associated
subtasks. The total time accrued for a task includes the times for its 
subtasks, as well as its own accumulated time.</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="menus">
<title>The &karm; menubar</title>
<sect2>
<title>The <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice><shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>S</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Saves the current tasks and subtasks with their accumulated
times</action></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>P</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Print</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>
<action>Prints</action> the &karm; window</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Start New Session</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Resets </action>all session times to zero</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Reset All Times</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Resets </action>all times to zero</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Import/Export</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Import Legacy Flat File...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Import </action>old style &karm; save files (&karm; 
now uses iCalendar-style save files.)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Import/Export</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Import Tasks from Planner...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Import </action>an imendio planner project (see <ulink
url="http://planner.imendio.org">planner.imendio.org</ulink>). All tasks, subtasks and their "completed" flag will be imported from a .planner-file. You can import them as a subtask by creating a subtask, leaving it marked, and then importing. </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Import/Export</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Export to CSV file...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Export </action>
<guilabel>Total Session Time</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Session Time</guilabel>, <guilabel>Time</guilabel>, and
<guilabel>Total Time</guilabel> to a text file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Import/Export</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Export History to CSV file...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Export </action> task history to a text file.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>C</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Copy Totals to Clipboard</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Copies </action> the current total time for a 
task or all tasks to the &kde; clipboard</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>C</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Copy History to Clipboard</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Copies </action> daily times for a 
given period to the &kde; clipboard</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>Q</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Closes</action> &karm;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>The <guimenu>Clock</guimenu> menu</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<shortcut><keycap>S</keycap></shortcut>
<guimenu>Clock</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Start</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Starts</action> timing the selected task</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Clock</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Stop</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Stops</action> timing the selected task</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<shortcut><keycap>&Esc;</keycap></shortcut>
<guimenu>Clock</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Stop All Timers</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem><para><action>Stops</action> timing all tasks</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>The <guimenu>Task</guimenu> menu</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Task</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>New</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem><para><action>Add</action> a new task</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Task</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>New Subtask</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Add</action> a new subtask to the selected task</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycap>Del</keycap>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Task</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Delete</action> the selected task or subtask</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>E</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Task</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Edit</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Change the name or accumulated time</action> for the
current task</para><para>There are two options for changing the time: Edit
Absolute, in which the session and total times can be changed separately;
and Edit Relative, in which a certain change is added to or subtracted from
both the session and total times.</para><para>The Auto tracking option allows 
timing to start and stop automatically when you switch to or from a particular 
&kde; desktop.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>The <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu</title>
<variablelist>


<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure Shortcuts</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem><para><action>Opens</action> a dialog to allow the user to customize
the keyboard shortcuts</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure KArm</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</term>
<listitem><para><action>Opens</action> a dialog to allow the user to
configure &karm;</para>

<para>The dialog has three tabbed panes: <guilabel>Behavior </guilabel>, which 
allows you to specify an alert for no activity and a warning message when you 
delete a task set, <guilabel>Display </guilabel>, which configures the fields 
shown in the main window and <guilabel>Storage</guilabel>,
which configures the location of the save file, whether auto saving is
enabled and the auto save interval.</para> </listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>The <guimenu>Help</guimenu> menu</title>

&help.menu.documentation;

</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="tool-bar">
<title>The Toolbar</title>
<para>The toolbar contains icons for the following commands:</para>

<note><para>(All behave identically to the menu command.)</para></note>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Start</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Stop</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>New</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>New Subtask</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Delete</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Edit</guiicon></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="status-bar">
<title>The Statusbar</title>

<para>Reports the total elapsed time for the session.</para>
</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="credits">

<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>
&karm;
</para>

<para> Program copyright: </para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>1997-2000 Sirtaj Singh Kang
<email>taj@kde.org</email>.</para>  </listitem> 

<listitem><para>2001-2002 Tomas Pospisek
<email>tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch</email></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>2003-2004 Mark
Bucciarelli<email>mark@hubcapconsulting.com</email></para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>Contributors (in alphabetical order)</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Allen Winter <email>winterz@verizon.net</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>David Faure <email>faure@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Espen Sand <email>espen@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Gioele Barabucci <email>gioele@gioelebarabucci.com</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Jan Schaumann <email>jschauma@netmeister.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Jesper Pedersen <email>blackie@ifad.dk</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Kalle Dalheimer <email>kalle@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Klar&auml;lvdalens Datakonsult AB</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Mark Bucciarelli <email>mark@hubcapconsulting.com</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Thorsten St&auml;rk <email>dev@staerk.de</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Tomas Pospisek <email>tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch</email></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Willi Richert <email>w.richert@cox.net</email></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>&karm; was inspired by Harald Tveit Alvestrand's very useful
utility called <application>titrax</application>, the only failing of
which is that it is based on the Xt toolkit.</para>

<para>Documentation copyright 2000-2004 Jonathan Singer
<email>jsinger@leeta.net</email> and Sirtaj Singh Kang
<email>taj@kde.org</email>.</para>

&underFDL;
&underGPL;

</chapter>

<glossary id="glossary">

<glossentry id="gloss-active-task">
<glossterm>active task</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A task which has a timer running.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-dcop">
<glossterm>&DCOP;</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The interprocess communication protocol used in KDE.  Short
for Desktop COmmunication Protocol.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-desktop">
<glossterm>desktop</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and other systems that run X-Windows have
multiple desktops.  You typically have four different desktops installed by
default.  Each desktop can display it's own set of programs and files.  When
KDE first starts up, the desktop you see is Desktop 1.  If you press
<keycombo action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo>, you will see
Desktop 2.  Pressing <keycombo
action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F1</keycap></keycombo> will bring back Desktop
1.  </para></glossdef> </glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-history">
<glossterm>history</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>If &karm; is configured to log history, it will record ever
start/stop timer event. This history is never cleared when times are reset
cleared and remains on file until the task is deleted.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-session"> <glossterm>session</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A user-defined starting point for the session timers.  A new
session begins when you select <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Start New Session</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>.
Session data is not saved when you create a new session.
</para></glossdef> </glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-system-time"> <glossterm><guilabel>Session
Time</guilabel></glossterm> <glossdef><para>The time spent on the task
since the session began.</para></glossdef> </glossentry> 

<glossentry id="gloss-system-tray"> <glossterm>system tray</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The system tray is in the bar that (by default) appears at
the bottom of the screen.  In this system tray <inlinemediaobject>
<imageobject> <imagedata fileref="systray.png"
format="PNG"/></imageobject> </inlinemediaobject> the &karm; icon is on the far
right.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-top-level-task">
<glossterm>top level task</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A task with no parent tasks.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-total-session-time"> <glossterm><guilabel>Total Session
Time</guilabel></glossterm> <glossdef><para>The time spent on the task and
all it's subtasks since the session began.</para></glossdef> </glossentry>
<glossentry> <glossterm><guilabel>Time</guilabel></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The time spent on the task since all times were
reset.</para></glossdef> </glossentry> 

<glossentry id="gloss-total-time"> <glossterm><guilabel>Total Time</guilabel></glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The time spent on the task and all it's subtasks since all
times were reset.</para></glossdef> </glossentry> 

</glossary>

<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-karm">
<title>How to obtain &karm;</title>

&install.intro.documentation;
&install.compile.documentation;

</sect1>

</appendix>

<appendix id="dcopappendix"><title>&DCOP; Interface</title>

<refentry id="dcop-version">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>version</refentrytitle>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>version</refname>
<refpurpose>Return &karm;'s version.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis>
QString version()
</synopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>version()</function> is a &DCOP; call that returns &karm;'s
version number; for example 1.5.0.  The version number is returned as a string
in the typical GNU format of major.minor.bugfix.</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>

<refentry id="dcop-quit">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>quit</refentrytitle>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>quit</refname>
<refpurpose>Return &karm;'s quit.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis>
QString quit()
</synopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>quit()</function> is a &DCOP; call that provides a way that an
external program can gracefully shutdown &karm;.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>

<refentry id="dcop-hastodo">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>hastodo</refentrytitle>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>hastodo</refname>
<refpurpose>Check if top-level todo exists.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis>
QString hastodo(QString taskname)
</synopsis>
<refsect2>
<title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>taskname</parameter></term>
<listitem>
	<para>The name of the todo to look for.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>hastodo(QString taskname)</function> is a &DCOP; call that
	looks for a of the given name.  If found, it returns the
	iCalendar UID that identifies that todo.  If not found, it returns an empty
	string.
</para>
<para>The iCalendar file that &karm; currently has opened is the file that is
searched.  All todo trees are searched, not just top-level todo's.  If more
than one todo has a matching name, the first one found is returned.</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>

<refentry id="dcop-addtodo">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>addtodo</refentrytitle>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>addtodo</refname>
<refpurpose>Add new todo.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis>
QString addtodo(QString todoname)
</synopsis>
<refsect2>
<title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>todoname</parameter></term>
<listitem>
	<para>The name of new todo.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>addtodo(QString todoname)</function> is a &DCOP; call that
	adds a new top-level todo to the current storage.  The UID of the new todo
	is returned.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>

</appendix>

&documentation.index; 
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