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[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:24 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > 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.

  This is a good idea, but it's not trivial to implement if you can't
control the order in which the user uses each application.

  At one point, I had Gnote and Tomboy running simultaneously, and had
them using the same directory for notes (via symlinks). Gnote would fail
to recognize or distort formatting on Tomboy notes, and vice versa,
despite the fact that they were supposed to be clones.

  If the Tomboy note format includes markup not supported in GTG, then
GTG would need to preserve that markup while reading/writing note
content. Suppose a user had written "Normal Large Huge" in those font
sizes in Tomboy. The first two words are bold; the last two words are
italic. Suppose they open the note in GTG, put the cursor after the "e"
in "Large", and start typing. What happens in the saved note? What
should it look like if they reopen it in Tomboy?

  But Bryce is 100% right that the functionality of GTG should be sane
in *both* the presence & non-presence of any of these complementary
tools. Can we make a list of which programs we want to consider in this
way? In my GSoC proposal, I mentioned:

 * Zeitgeist
 * GNOME Planner
 * Hamster

There is also currently support, in some form or another, for:

 * Evolution
 * Tomboy/Gnote

Other possibilities:

 * Tasque
 * ... (anything else?)

-- 
Paul Kishimoto
MASc candidate (2010), Flight Systems & Control Group
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS)

http://paul.kishimoto.name — +19053029315

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