the case of the activity name is not respected when chosen from autocomplete about hamster HOT 17 CLOSED

This bug is annoying. Is there any estimate to fix it?

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you can fix it right now ;)

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That's what I would do if I knew python at least at the primary level, unfortunately it is not so...

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i think you have the proper title-cased activities in one category and for some reason there are lowercased ones in the unsorted category.
I also imagine that in the tracking history you have somewhere some lowercase records.
So what you want to do now is to merge these two activities:
go to tracking preferences (edit -> preferences in standalone, "tracking settings" in shell) and find the lowercased activity. then drag it into the same category where the properly title-cased one is.
after that you should be good.

let me know how it goes!

the merging is obviosly unobvious, filed a bug on that

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#7

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I have always had this problem too.
I thought it was a deliberate developer's choice to show lowercase names in the activity field.

To make it clear, my "Unsorted" category is empty.
I always create new activities from the "Preferences" dialog and I start activities using autocomplete.

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the suggested case doesn't matter as the activity is afterwards match up case insensitively and the preferred titling is picked.

so if you enter "hamster" and press start tracking and you have "hAmStEr" in your preferences, the latter form will be chosen

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the suggested case doesn't matter as the activity is afterwards match up case insensitively and the preferred titling is picked.

Yes.

Maybe I misunderstood the intent of the initial bug report.
I thought it was about the case of activity titles in the search field.

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as i understood it, the trouble in the original report is that the activity in preferences is "Hamster" while autocomplete is suggesting and starting tracking the activity in lowercase as "hamster", thus i suspect there are two activities in the prefs

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I my case I have double entries for one activity in overview totals one is 'Hamster' which I typed manually and second is 'hamster' which was chosen from autocomplite.

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Kiril - did you try following my suggestions?
#32 (comment)

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Cannot reproduce right now. Hamster DB was purged.

2012/10/25 Toms Bauģis [email protected]

Kiril - did you try following my suggestions?
#32https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues/32#issuecomment-9633290

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closing as can't replicate

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I have recently started using Hamster and I experience this bug.

The problem is as follows: If I have a previous task named "Task1" it shows up as "task1" as I type. When I actually start the task it correctly shows up as "Task1" in the overview.

However, if I get a task name from autocomplete and then edit the name it is saved as all lower case. So if autocomplete suggests "task1" and I change it to "task2" it is saved as "task2".

I am using Hamster 2.91.3 and Xubuntu 13.04.

PS: As suggested in #32 I made sure that there are no duplicate categories.

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Still extant in 1.03.3, recommend you re-open.

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@BillyTom In the example you have given "task2" is a brand new activity, so Hamster has no way of knowing what the preferred case is since there is no previous activity to compare against (i.e. how would it know that you meant "Task2".

This is expected behaviour, although I take the point that it could be useful if the auto-complete suggested activities using their original case e.g. Previous activity = "Task1" you type "task1" and it autocompletes to "Task1"

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thanks @jonbrett for looking into this! Killing.

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