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The application is quite raw as it was designed as a simple to-do list without any pretention. It should however be easy to make it more pleasant to the eye with some customizations:

• Select another Swing Look & Feel.
• Use a thinner custom font (ensure no license problem).
• Create more themes (with colors).

Upon starting, the application can display a set of messages. The user should be allowed to select what messages they want to see.

This will be implemented at first as a field in the tasks.properties file.

window.setWindowRelativeTo(null) does not need a warning

Title is explicit: the GUI part is not tested right now. Some unit tests would be great.

Right now, tasks are displayed in the order they were created. It would be nice to be able to re-order them on need.

Good experience with Swing's drag and drop, too.

• UI
• Tasks

• Create a setting interface to customize the application
• Propose an automatic import of existing tasks.properties file to ease the transition for existing users.
• Create an Edit mode to add/delete tasks
• Enable full customization, overriding pre-defined themes

When the application starts, it is centered on the screen.

In the future, the position of the window should be saved on application closing so that the window opens in the same place on the next execution.

Right now, the user is allowed to open several time the same window. This is not a wished behaviour, and controls should be implemented.

Once the to-do list window closes, no the application should stop. However, the Java process remains open. This is not a normal behaviour and should be corrected.

Cf. repo

As specified #5.

Pre-defined themes are ugly for most. Create an edition mode enabling the user to select their own:

• background color;
• font color;
• window icon (from the available ones).

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/23135/13731

• Program tasks to be repeatable only on certain days

It might be useful for some users to have the tasks state persisted between sessions.

This task is dependent on #5, which should be completed first.

The first goal of the to-do list is to remain visible no matter what else is on the screen.

Adding some vividly-colored themes would probably help.

Move compatibility to Java 7

As specified in #5.

Create a preferences window. It should enable the selection of:

• the current locale;
• the theme;
• whether the application should remain on top of other windows.

Add localization to the application.

The local will have to be set using the tasks.properties. If not set, the application should load the system default.

For users with a lot of tasks, it could be useful to have a bypass enabling the closing of the application without checking all tasks. This could be done by adding a context menu to the application.

As specified in #5.

Users should be able to add or remove tasks from within the application.