View Project - Linked should perhaps be populated with all items

No, links are not devoted to display such things.
It could quickly become a mess to display a project with many activities and tickets.

Today screen and Reports are there to give a snapshot of the project.

Nay Nay, The associated links could be grouped and colapsed pretty easily.

But unless I run a complete refactor of the link table, it will be loaded, even if not displayed. It is no issue when list is less than a dozain, but running with undreds of items, it will be a real performance issue.

Just seems it would be nice to get to project data from one location

YES .
I really share this point of view.
But to my opinion, Project screen is not the good place for it.
Ticket #552 already exists for that point.

and be able to add items from the same place

It is not the way to use Project'Or RIA...

Be nice also if there were an ability to add other items from various screens

Project'Or RIA provides it.

like add activities from projects

You can add Activity from add Link. But Project'Or RIA "Link" functionality is not designed for this.

or edit contacts from add contact dialog.

It is not designed to it. It is just designed to be abled to add new missing item without losing corrent changes.
New functionality is planned (Ticket #806) to provide direct link to selected element in list. It will provide easy way to update selected item.

just be nice to add items from other items rather than need to exit one, another menu then back to the original item

Project'Or RIA already provides this functionality.

NB : If you just have to get view of data for single project, just use "ProjectSelector" (top left field) and use Projet'Or RIA as it is designed to.

Hi,

I think one way to address the problem with saving an object before creating another object that may or may not be linked to it would be to perhaps when creating an object like say an activity would be to save the original object on creation, maybe as a temporary object, then either resave it permenantly or destroy it if cancelled.

Major issues are :
=> you need to send a server request to save temp item when requesting link add (or adding any referencing item)
=> framework forces validation of object on save (controls), and if you insert link before completing form input (mandatory fields), saving of temp object will fail
=> what about "closing" browser : in some cases (on Chrome for instance, or by terminating process), query cannot be sent to server to cancel last change : so you may get in base some uncomplete temporary items.
=> all screen / framework must be updated not to display temp items...

So all this is a major refactoring of framework.

Is there a repository or tracking system in place?

Yes, SVN repository is available at sourceforge.
(don't forget to let a feedback at sourceforge ...)