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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Thanks for the nice discussion, although the topic sounds a bit like 
flame-bait... It is not my intention to compete with other project for 
competition sake - believe me if there is a project out there that 
satisfies my needs I will be glad to use their code instead of my ow. 
Would save a heck of a lot of time for me..

Pablo Angulo wrote:
> * however, tomboy works right out of the box, while the first screen of
> zim, asking to configure a notebook, requires some thinking. It's not
> easy to understand what's the Domuent Root, or how you want to use the
> notebooks before yuou know what the application is for. Some casual
> users might decide not to try the application. However, once the first
> notebook is working, anyone can learn most of zim without reading a
> manual. I'd even say it's easier than tomboy, because the toolbar has
> more of the good staff.
>   

I think this is a good one. Anyone feel like designing a wizard (or 
"assistant" in gtk jargon) for first time users ? It should just explain 
what a notebook is and ask for the location to store notes and other 
properties with some meaningful defaults or select an existing notebook.

After creating the first one, the "open another notebook" menu item 
would still trigger the current dialog. But the "add" button in that 
dialog could trigger the wizard again.

Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> Just now noticed an important one: tomboy automatically turns any text
> that is a name of a note into a link!  This removes some flexibility
> but makes linking much simpler to understand and easier to manage.
> Could we have it in Zim?

In fact we had it some time back as an experimental feature (hidden 
option to enable). Technically it is still in there, but haven't been 
tested for ages. In short I did not get any more request for this 
feature after the first hack at it.

Would not be that hard to implement as a plugin that functions as a 
filter when loading a page. Just list pages in the same namespace, match 
those names in the page and create a link. Only thing is that links 
update different when moving / deleting a page - but that does not have 
to be a problem.

Not top of my list, but if anyone wants to work on it let me know.


Regards,

Jaap