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[Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:50 -0700, Rick Spencer wrote:
> All -
> 
> We discussed having a sample app that gets built end to end throughout
> the manual.
> 
> I propose that we extend Jotty for this. Jotty is the note taking
> application that I use as the sample in the quickly tutorial. (see
> $quickly tutorial ubuntu-application). 

I like the theory, but there is a big objection to using Jotty. I think
that people will say: why doesn't it pick up my Tomboy notes? If people
are using Tomboy, and syncing it with Ubuntu One, then their Tomboy
notes are in desktopcouch. It would make sense for Jotty to recognise
and work with those notes, so that Tomboy and Jotty share notes -- this
would be a lovely demonstration of applications sharing data through
desktopcouch. However, to do that, Jotty will have to save notes into
desktopcouch using Tomboy's XML format, and explaining and doing that
might be awkward for a first-time application.

(I think that we should o this, and have jotty use Tomboy's XML format
for note storage, but I can see how that could be seen astoo complicated
a requirement for a tutorial app.)

sil