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Re: Firefox addon: zim-clip 0.5.0

 

Yes, thank you.  It's a very useful Firefox addin.

Jules


On 1 April 2013 13:21, Rui Nibau <rui.nibau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I'm a little bit late working on zim-clip 0.5.0, as the last coding stage
> was in December 2012. To much stuff to do on other projects. But i release
> today zim-clip 0.5.0 : some bugs fixed, some improvements in html to wiki
> conversion and a new feature: marks
>
> * Copy selection on a dedicated page under specified namespace (clips)
> * Register a collection of links on a dedicated page (marks)
> * You can choose the notebook where to store marks
> * You can choose to run Zim from source
>
> Home page: http://omacronides.com/**projets/ff-zim-clip/<http://omacronides.com/projets/ff-zim-clip/>
> xpi : http://omacronides.com/lab/ff-**zim-clip/build/zim-clip-0.5.0.**xpi<http://omacronides.com/lab/ff-zim-clip/build/zim-clip-0.5.0.xpi>
> video: http://omacronides.com/lab/ff-**zim-clip/doc/vids/0-5-0.webm<http://omacronides.com/lab/ff-zim-clip/doc/vids/0-5-0.webm>
>
> Those last two urls may change in the future, but you can always find the
> infos in the project home page. I will also register the addon on the
> firefox addon website soon.
>
> Tests and comments are, as always, very welcomed.
>
> Some remarks :
>
> About notebooks.list
> --------------------
>
> I build the notebook list on the marks panel reading the notebooks.list
> the first time the panel is opened. Next, I  check if notebooks.list file
> has changed since last time i read it; if so, i reload the notebooks list
> on the marks panel. The main goal is to avoid rebuilding the list (and then
> the marks panel) too often.
>
> It works perfectly but i saw that Zim changes notebooks.list quite often,
> each time you open a notebook or when you close the program. I thought the
> file was edited only when you use the 'open notebook' window and add or
> remove a notebook. So, my "get notebooks list only if changed" code is
> called more often that i expected, in fact each time i register a mark or a
> clip.
>
> Not a big deal.
>
> Interaction with quicknote plugin
> ------------------------------**---
>
> Changes made by Jaap in the quicknote plugin allows now to have the "clip"
> feature and the "mark" feature. The next step for me is maybe to avoid
> using quicknote plugin and directly send data to Zim. Zim-clip already have
> a mark dialog panel, and it also have a clip dialog panel (disabled in
> 0.5.0). You can see how it looks here : http://omacronides.com/lab/ff-**
> zim-clip/doc/vids/0-6-0-clips-**panel.webm<http://omacronides.com/lab/ff-zim-clip/doc/vids/0-6-0-clips-panel.webm>
> .
>
> For now, i have this workflow:
>
> ----
>     [Firefox]                        |   [Zim]
>                                      |
>     zim-clip -> mark -> marks panel ---> quicknote plugin -> zim action
>                                      |
>     zim-clip -> clip ------------------> quicknote plugin -> zim action
>                                      |
> ----
> Current workflow (zim-clip 0.5.0).
>
> The use of the marks panel is already quite redundant with the quicknote
> plugin dialog. If I activate the clip panel know, we could have the same
> kind of workflow :
>
> ----
>     [Firefox]                        |   [Zim]
>                                      |
>     zim-clip -> mark -> marks panel ---> quicknote plugin -> zim action
>                                      |
>     zim-clip -> clip -> clips panel ---> quicknote plugin -> zim action
>                                      |
> ----
> Workflow with the clips panel activated.
>
> Double redundancy. So, I want to do something like this :
>
> ----
>     [Firefox]                        |   [Zim]
>                                      |
>     zim-clip -> mark -> marks panel ---> zim action
>                                      |
>     zim-clip -> clip -> clips panel ---> zim action
>                                      |
> ----
> Expected workflow for zim-clip 0.6.0.
>
> I will try to find out how to do the quicknote plugin actions without the
> graphic interface.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Rui Nibau
> email: rui.nibau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> im: rui.nibau@xxxxxxxxx
> site: http://omacronides.com
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