Comments on: This ain’t no holiday http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/ free software, free culture, free association Fri, 16 May 2008 02:57:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3466 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:18:55 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3466 Is this sooner, or later? <a href="/2008/02/23/tomboy-bulk-import-files-with-the-dbus-interface-and-python/" rel="nofollow">Tomboy: Bulk import files with the D-Bus interface and Python</a> Is this sooner, or later?

Tomboy: Bulk import files with the D-Bus interface and Python

]]> by: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3410 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:14:54 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3410 DBUS is awesome! Thanks for the tip, Sandy. Found an <a href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/09/26/using-the-tomboy-d-bus-interface" rel="nofollow">article at ars</a> about this and just tried out a proof of concept. Very cool. I'm using Tomboy 0.6 on my main Ubuntu 7.04 desktop, so I tried it out on a laptop with 7.10 that has Tomboy 0.8. Was able to read the created note in 0.6 with no trouble. I'll try to get a write-up together sooner or later. DBUS is awesome! Thanks for the tip, Sandy. Found an article at ars about this and just tried out a proof of concept. Very cool.

I’m using Tomboy 0.6 on my main Ubuntu 7.04 desktop, so I tried it out on a laptop with 7.10 that has Tomboy 0.8. Was able to read the created note in 0.6 with no trouble.

I’ll try to get a write-up together sooner or later.

]]> by: Sandy http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3404 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:39:00 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3404 The code is the only real documentation of the XML format, but if you look at a note it's really not complex. We're hoping to make the code more cross platform in the next cycle, which *might* lead to Windows and OS X support in the Fall 2008 release. If you do a Java client, we'd love to hear about it! I agree, the linking behavior can be dangerous. We're looking at ways to fix it. There's a bug for it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350990 The code is the only real documentation of the XML format, but if you look at a note it’s really not complex. We’re hoping to make the code more cross platform in the next cycle, which *might* lead to Windows and OS X support in the Fall 2008 release. If you do a Java client, we’d love to hear about it!

I agree, the linking behavior can be dangerous. We’re looking at ways to fix it. There’s a bug for it here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350990

]]> by: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3402 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:00 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3402 Hi, Sandy. Thanks for visiting and for the advice. It would be great to find something already out there to do the import, but also fun to learn some more about Tomboy and write a script to manage things. (And then share it back, of course.) :-) I think Tomboy is fantastic, by the way. I have reservations about Mono, but I love Tomboy. Keep up the great work. Also looking forward to a Windows version I can use at work and keep my notes in sync. I was wondering how well-documented the XML format is of the notes, thinking about writing a rudimentary Java version to use on Windows -- maybe I'll ask some questions about that, although it wouldn't be necessary if the Windows version is getting close. I'll check out the list -- I also wanted to ask about the auto-linking behavior. The only negative experience I've had with Tomboy is when I had a note that somehow got named "..." temporarily, causing it to be linked to from other notes that had that string, and then when I renamed it they all changed also. I like the auto-linking, but it's kind of dangerous for note titles with common words, especially when those links change along with renamed note. Not sure what to do about that -- it's desirable to have the link change if it was intended to be a link. Hi, Sandy. Thanks for visiting and for the advice. It would be great to find something already out there to do the import, but also fun to learn some more about Tomboy and write a script to manage things. (And then share it back, of course.) :-)

I think Tomboy is fantastic, by the way. I have reservations about Mono, but I love Tomboy. Keep up the great work.

Also looking forward to a Windows version I can use at work and keep my notes in sync. I was wondering how well-documented the XML format is of the notes, thinking about writing a rudimentary Java version to use on Windows — maybe I’ll ask some questions about that, although it wouldn’t be necessary if the Windows version is getting close.

I’ll check out the list — I also wanted to ask about the auto-linking behavior. The only negative experience I’ve had with Tomboy is when I had a note that somehow got named “…” temporarily, causing it to be linked to from other notes that had that string, and then when I renamed it they all changed also. I like the auto-linking, but it’s kind of dangerous for note titles with common words, especially when those links change along with renamed note. Not sure what to do about that — it’s desirable to have the link change if it was intended to be a link.

]]> by: Sandy http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3401 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:05:05 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/01/this-aint-no-holiday/#comment-3401 How fortuitous that you're learning Python! You could pretty easily write a script that parses your old text notes and creates Tomboy notes out of them using our DBUS interface. Hop on the Tomboy mailing list [1] or join us in IRC [2]. If somebody hasn't done the work already, you'll find people who are happy to help. :-) [1] http://lists.beatniksoftware.com/listinfo.cgi/tomboy-list-beatniksoftware.com [2] #tomboy on GIMPNet How fortuitous that you’re learning Python! You could pretty easily write a script that parses your old text notes and creates Tomboy notes out of them using our DBUS interface. Hop on the Tomboy mailing list [1] or join us in IRC [2]. If somebody hasn’t done the work already, you’ll find people who are happy to help. :-)

[1] http://lists.beatniksoftware.com/listinfo.cgi/tomboy-list-beatniksoftware.com
[2] #tomboy on GIMPNet

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