Need explanation of the colors on the timeline when zoomed out

[Tagirijus]

According to another maybe related issue (#465) - I wondered, how exactly the order logic of the colors in the timeline is. When you zoom out at some point you get a more graphical representation of the amount of tags (and their assigned color) used, if I understand it correct. What still is not clear to me in this representation is:

• What is the logic of the order? Is it similar to the reply Almar gave me int he linked issue and it's about the amount of entries?
• What is it about the dimmed area and the more bright one? I guess it has something to do with the duration for e.g. that day or so. Higher durations for a day have less dimmed area, for example. Yet it's still not 100% clear to me.

If there is too much time: Maybe the docs could be extended to explain this as well? (;

[almarklein]

What is the logic of the order?

In the week/month/year statistics shown in the timeline, each color represents a tag, and they are simply sorted by total duration.

timetagger/timetagger/app/front.py

Lines 2534 to 2536 in 3a381b0

	# Turn stats into tuples and sort.
	stats_list = [(tag, count) for tag, count in tag_stats.items()]
	stats_list.sort(key=lambda x: -x[1])

What is it about the dimmed area and the more bright one?

It is an indication of how much time was spent compared to the total time in that period. I had to look in the source code to see how its actually implemented. It is not a linear relation, because then it'd be just a thin bar most of the time.

[Tagirijus]

Ah thanks for the explanation and for digging into the code! (=

[almarklein]

Looking a bit closer: the non-linear part is because of you have records that contain two tags, the time for that record contributes twice to growing the more saturated area.