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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:29:50AM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> Le vendredi 14 mai 2010 à 15:59 -0400, Paul Kishimoto a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:38 +0200, Bertrand Rousseau wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 14/05/10 19:41, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:13:28PM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> > > >>>    * Name.  Rick was iffy on the name 'Getting things GNOME' and wondered
> > > >>>      if a different name would be more discoverable for new users
> > > >>
> > > >> I don't believe that the name has to be "discoverable". See Firefox,
> > > >> Epiphany, Nautilus, Evolution.
> > > >
> > > > I think they would say those are different since they have "brand
> > > > recognition".  Kind of chicken/egg situation but anyway.
> > > >
> > > >> The key is to label it well in the menu (thus the desktop file).
> > > >>
> > > >> I agree that "Getting Things GNOME! tasks manager" is a bit long.
> > > >>
> > > >> GTG personal tasks manager ?
> > > >
> > > > Or even "GTG Todo List" ?
> > > >
> > > 
> > > What about "GTG personal organizer"? For me GTG is more than a todo 
> > > list, and "task manager" sounds like a machine for me. I would prefer to 
> > > highlight the service.
> > 
> >   I haven't used it recently, but I know the last time I had Hamster
> > installed I could only find the *name* "Hamster" by going into the About
> > dialog. Everyplace else it was called "Time Tracker".
> > 
> >   "To-Do/Tasks List" or "Personal To-Do/Tasks List" could be used
> > similarly for GTG.
> 
> Good idea. I personally like Bertrand's proposal : "Personal organizer".
> It makes a lot of sense.

Agreed.  After all, Palm established the handheld market specifically
around PDA use cases, so if that's not sexy I don't know what is.

> In fact, my usage of Tomboy could be easily done with the current GTG
> task's editor.

That's the case for me as well.

> Also, if I'm completely agnostic in the Mono flamewar, I must recognize
> that Tomboy add a whole 5s to my desktop boot.
> 
> That's why I can understand why GTG could be a replacement for Tomboy in
> some very simple case.

Right, it's not like Tomboy would go away - if you already had it
installed and had a lot of notes written, Tomboy is still there of
course.  But on fresh install it'd need to be obtained from the software
center.

> Maybe we could try to be even more good neighbor and have a better
> integration with tomboy ? What about displaying tomboy notes in the GTG
> notes feature for example ?

I think it's a great idea.

It would be quite neighborly to allow the user to use gtg for really
basic notes management, and then when Tomboy is there to provide the
ability to transition all notes to Tomboy and be able to take full
advantage of its power.  So we'd be sort of like providing the
"Microsoft Works" of notes.

I was thinking perhaps we could do similarly with other PDA basics like
calendaring and time tracking - provide minimal functionality by default
and allow the user to ratchet things up by installing these other tools.
This'd make Ubuntu a functional PDA right off the CD with minimal
overhead, but give users the option of having best of breed tools to
install as they need them.

Bryce