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You use a pie chart. I am not totally against such kind of chart, but it
presents problems of visualization.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart

Current problems (screenshot examples). Using your chart, user aren't able
to sort the usage because it is really hard to distinguish area differences
between pieces.

-> sort your pieces of pie from the largest (0 o'clock) to the smallest.
Your table is ordered, your chart must be too...

-> use a cumulative bar chart ordering from the top (largest) to the base
(smallest). Using this kind of chart, area visualization is probably
easier. An other advantage is to easily present legend by the side of the
graph with percentage number. Using a bar chart, you are probably not
obliged to use 2 tabs.

Regards.

I work in a software development company and work at several different 
projects a day. For me it would be great if desktoptracks could log the 
window titles of the windows I work in - so that I can see how long I 
worked on which file.

Maybe you can make the entries for the application in the stats list 
expandable to show the whole titles. Would be a great feature.

The chart can display absolute or relative usage. Once again, bar chart is
more versatile because representing evolution with pie chart is confusing.
Regards

Especially if you use a bar chart, it is easier to provide timeline
analysis of data, from week to week or month to month...
You can provide bar chart side by side or present line area over time.
Look at an example:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ECE_weekly_235.gif
Regards

I am attempting to build from trunk on Karmic 64 bit. After running
./configure, I get the following error on make

make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/zaki/OpenSource/desktoptracks-read-only/data'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `desktoptracks-status.png', needed by
`all-am'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/zaki/OpenSource/desktoptracks-read-only/data'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/zaki/OpenSource/desktoptracks-read-only'
make: *** [all] Error 2