Todo-tree: See your TODO count in the status bar..

[Yzrsah]

I would love it if you could see a TODO count in your status bar.
Cause we want those TODO and Fixme to go to 0 :)
Being able to see a count in the status bar is a good reminder to reduce the number.
There could be a setting to show a merged count or show separate counts for each tag.

[Gruntfuggly]

That could be useful - I'll add it as an option.

[WORMSS]

I came to ask the same, but for maybe

or even

I don't mind which..

[Gruntfuggly]

Hi - the status bar is almost ready. Unfortunately adding to the tree view can only be done by adding something to the item labels, so it can't be shown exactly like you have it.

So it could show something like:
TODO (5)
but it won't look as nice.

[WORMSS]

To be honest, it's actually what I thought myself, but I can only do so much with mspaint at short notice. Lol

[Gruntfuggly]

Latest version has counts in the status bar - you can chose total or per tag from the settings, or click the status bar to toggle.

[Gruntfuggly]

If I add counters to the tree itself, would you expect them on all nodes with children, or just the grouped tag nodes (as in your top picture)?

[WORMSS]

I would have thought the grouped tags, because in other ways it's mostly going to be filename.ext (1) seeing hundreds of them seems a little unneeded. But I am sure someone out there that will disagree with me.

[beebase]

@Gruntfuggly Thanks for adding this feature in the latest release 👍

// What to show in the status bar - nothing, total count, or counts per tag
  "todo-tree.statusBar": "none"

Would it make sense to add an array as an option to filter the counts in the statusbar?
"todo-tree.statusBar":['TODO', 'BUG",...]
(i have like 15 tags filling up the entire statusbar when using 'counts per tag'

[Gruntfuggly]

I would prefer not to have another list of the tags in the settings - I'm not particularly happy with how it is at the moment with a list of tags and then the custom highlights needing to reference each tag again, as it opens up possible configuration errors.

How about another option: "top three", showing the three tags with the highest number of counts? The full list could still be shown in the tooltip?

[Gruntfuggly]

@WORMSS Looks like the latest vscode release supports a new description property - I'll have a look, but this might make putting the counters on the nodes look nice.

[beebase]

How about another option: "top three", showing the three tags with the highest number of counts? The full list could still be shown in the tooltip?

That would work fine.

I see what you mean with 'possible configuration errors'
Maybe "todo-tree.customHighlight" should be merged into "todo-tree.tags' like:

todo-tree.tags : {
  'TODO' : {
    "iconColour": "grey",
    "background": "grey",
    "showInStatusBar" : true,
    ...
    ...

But then again, I have no clue how much that would break existing code. 😉

[Gruntfuggly]

@beebase I've just uploaded a version which has another option "top three".

@WORMSS The latest version also now has an option todo-tree.showCountsInTree which displays the number of tags within each node of the tree.

[WORMSS]

Thank you very much @gruntfuggly

I have finished work until the new year, but I will set a reminder to turn the setting on.

[WORMSS]

@Gruntfuggly I can confirm it works and looks lovely.