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Re: [Tomdroid-dev] tomdroid's storage-redesign && what do we want to keep in the database as a note?

2009-11-21T07:25:02Z

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Olivier Bilodeau
<olivier@...> wrote:

> hi guys,
>
> Just working on reviewing some code for tomdroid and it got me thinking
> about something I would like to ask people with tomboy experience.
>
> Let me explain quickly.
>
> There is this hack we do right now in the storage-redesign branch[1] to
> re-create XML tags after we parse them in a note. The deal is we want to
> parse the xml tags except the ones in <note-content>..</note-content> so we
> store XML in our sqlite database for the note-content portion and parse it
> again on the fly when a Note is viewed.
>
> I _really_ find it disgusting, it looks like:
>
> String tag = "<";
>
> if (uri != null) {
>     if (uri.equals(NS_LINK)) {
>         tag += PREFIX_LINK+":";
>     } else if (uri.equals(NS_SIZE)) {
>         tag += PREFIX_SIZE+":";
>     }
> }
>
> tag += localName+">";
> xmlContent.append(tag);
>
> for open tags and close ones inside of a focused xml class.
>
> Now, (and here is where I need your experience), I was thinking about 2
> potentials solutions here (aside from the fact that we might just be
> misusing Java's XML parsing lib):

Android *must* have a standard XmlReader-type library for accessing
XML. Hopefully it would be trivial to take Tomboy's note-parsing code
and rewrite it using the appropriate Android libraries.

> 1- store the whole note instead of just note-content in the database
> This way we won't lose addins metatags, full note encryption support will be
> possible, etc. Also, parsing the few lines of metadata on each load won't be
> that big of a penalty since its the note's content that is always the
> biggest.

I'm not sure what you mean here about add-ins metatags. Can you
explain more? Add-ins can't add new top-level tags to a Tomboy .note
file, but they can add new tags within the <note-content> element.

There is no full note encryption support in any client. I think it's
a waste of time to design for something that doesn't yet exist.

When using web sync (which I really think will be the primary method
people use), you will have to parse note XML into JSON requests, and
JSON requests into note XML. Tomboy has to do it and it's not fun,
and is an obvious place where bugs may show up. If you assume that
most people will use web sync and not manual transfer of .note files,
then optimizing for that path makes sense to me.

Of course, my assumption could be wrong.

> 2- Forget about xml parsing just regexp out the note-content portion then
> parse the rest of the note. Or just use an xml lib that allows to extract
> part of the raw xml structure (or find the way to do it in Sax).

We use proper XML parsing to get to <note-content>, then we use
regular expressions (see the websync add-in) to remove the title from
there, because as I mentioned in my other email, the title is not part
of note-content in the JSON object.

We did all of this work of breaking the note up into a nice JSON
object so the only XML was pure content, in the hope that it would
make everything easier for new clients. It definitely makes things
easier on the web, and I hoped it would also make things easier for
Tomdroid.

Of course, I may be totally misunderstanding what your issues are.

Sorry for the late reply, and also for not having a chance to actually
look at the Tomdroid code files under discussion,
Sandy
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Re: OAuth 1.0a and Ubuntu One

2009-11-20T04:56:44Z

Elliot Murphy wrote:
> Also, if you run into any trouble getting it working with Ubuntu One,
> let me know and we'll happily assist with debugging.

Thanks for the offer, but yesterday I finally managed to do the first
successfull sync between Ubuntu One and Conboy :) So it looks like all I
need now is some cleaning and testing.

I noticed problems with nested bullet lists, but it looks like it´s a U1
problem [1].

Thanks!
Conny

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/482372
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Re: tomdroid's storage-redesign && what do we want to keep in the database as a note?

2009-11-18T00:42:03Z

Hi Oliver,

I don't have Tomboy developer experience, but I came across similar
problems while developing a Tomboy client for Maemo, so maybe my input
could help you as well.

Normally we store the data in xml files, just like Tomboy is doing it,
but there is also a backend plugin that saves the notes directly into a
Midgard database.

So what I'm doing is storing the <note-content> subtree as string in a
member of each Note object. When showing a note only this subtree is
parsed and displayed. When saving a note object to the database we only
store this subtree in the database as xml, the metadata is saved
directly.
When saving to a xml file, the rest of the file is constructed and the
<note-content> subtree is merged with it.

Getting the sub tree was no problem here, but we use a different parser
model not SAX. I guess doing all the work with SAX is rather a big pain.
I'm using XmlTextReader from libxml2. I think there is also an XmlReader
interface on Android. Maybe that will make things easier?

For me the problem was the parsing of the <note-content> sub tree,
because it has no namespace definitions after extracting it from the
main document. They are only available on the <note> element and libxml
throws an error if you try to parse an element like <size:big> without
having a reference to the "size" namespace.

So what I had to do was to append the namespace on the fly to the
<note-content> element and later when merging back with the rest of the
xml file I had to remove the redundant namespaces again.

But that probably also depends on the parser which you are using.

For your solution #1 I don't see a big problem there. Only you need to
decide which metadata is the "correct" one. The one in the database or
the one on in the xml document. It's not really nice to store redundant
data, but in this case it's probably not too bad and the extra cost of
parsing through the metadata shoudn't be that big.

About solution #2. Well, I think we all know that using regexp on xml is
not the right thing (tm) to do. But I don't see a big problem in this
case as the structure of those documents is well know and there
shouldn't be any surprises. In fact I'm doing some regexp suff on xml in
my code as well. Not proud of it, be it works ;)

BTW, does using a database for storage really improves speed for you?
I'm just asking because I had no performance issues so far. But only
tested with around 100 ntoes. I can load them in about 1 second on the
Nokia N810 which is a quite slow device. But your results would really
interest me. Are you using sqlite or something else?

I'm not sure if that does help you somehow. Hopefully I didn't miss your
point completely ;)

Cheers!
Conny

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 00:17 -0500, Olivier Bilodeau wrote:

> hi guys,
>
> Just working on reviewing some code for tomdroid and it got me
> thinking about something I would like to ask people with tomboy
> experience.
>
> Let me explain quickly.
>
> There is this hack we do right now in the storage-redesign branch[1]
> to re-create XML tags after we parse them in a note. The deal is we
> want to parse the xml tags except the ones in
> <note-content>..</note-content> so we store XML in our sqlite database
> for the note-content portion and parse it again on the fly when a Note
> is viewed.
>
> I _really_ find it disgusting, it looks like:
>
> String tag = "<";
>
> if (uri != null) {
> if (uri.equals(NS_LINK)) {
> tag += PREFIX_LINK+":";
> } else if (uri.equals(NS_SIZE)) {
> tag += PREFIX_SIZE+":";
> }
> }
>
> tag += localName+">";
> xmlContent.append(tag);
>
> for open tags and close ones inside of a focused xml class.
>
> Now, (and here is where I need your experience), I was thinking about
> 2 potentials solutions here (aside from the fact that we might just be
> misusing Java's XML parsing lib):
>
> 1- store the whole note instead of just note-content in the database
> This way we won't lose addins metatags, full note encryption support
> will be possible, etc. Also, parsing the few lines of metadata on each
> load won't be that big of a penalty since its the note's content that
> is always the biggest.
>
> 2- Forget about xml parsing just regexp out the note-content portion
> then parse the rest of the note. Or just use an xml lib that allows to
> extract part of the raw xml structure (or find the way to do it in
> Sax).
>
> I prefer #1 but I'm thinking maybe there are major roadblocks to this
> solution that I don't foresee.
>
> What does the tomboy people think?
>
> If I'm not clear enough, ask questions i'll readjust.
>
> Thanks for your time.
> --
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ANNOUNCE: Tomboy 1.0.1 stable bugfix release

2009-11-17T09:18:37Z

Hi folks,

This email is to announce Tomboy 1.0.1, a stable bugfix update in the 1.0.x
series.

Of note, this is the first stable upstream release that supports
synchronizing notes with Ubuntu One.

Tomboy is a simple personal note-taking application designed to be
unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note-links similar to
a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run
either as a GNOME panel applet or a notification tray icon.

Tomboy's Website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy

Tomboy's Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy
* Road Map: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap
* Brainstorming: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas

Linux tarballs:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/1.0/tomboy-1.0.1.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/1.0/tomboy-1.0.1.tar.bz2

Windows installer:
http://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/tomboy/1.0/Tomboy-1.0.1.msi

Mac OS X disk image:
http://download.gnome.org/binaries/mac/tomboy/1.0/Tomboy-1.0.1.dmg

This release includes the following changes:

Version 1.0.1
* Add support for Ubuntu One and others using OAuth 1.0a (#594046, Rodrigo Moya)
* Show correct help version on Windows and Mac (#601067, Stefan Cosma)
* Always show icons for note items in recent notes menu (#590653)
* Other fixes: #596416, #596395
* Translation updates: ca, et, ja, lv, pl, ro, ru

Special thanks to everyone entering bugs, submitting patches,
keeping translations up to date, and helping to make Tomboy
better!

Sandy
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ANNOUNCE: Tomboy 1.1.0 development release

2009-11-17T09:15:02Z

Hi folks,

This email is to announce Tomboy 1.1.0, the first development release
on the road to Tomboy 1.2, which will coincide with GNOME 2.30.

Tomboy is a simple personal note-taking application designed to be
unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note-links similar to
a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run
either as a GNOME panel applet or a notification tray icon.

Tomboy's Website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy

Tomboy's Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy
* Road Map: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap
* Brainstorming: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas

Linux tarballs:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/1.1/tomboy-1.1.0.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/1.1/tomboy-1.1.0.tar.bz2

Windows installer:
http://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/tomboy/1.1/Tomboy-1.1.0.msi

Mac OS X disk image:
http://download.gnome.org/binaries/mac/tomboy/1.1/Tomboy-1.1.0.dmg

This release includes the following changes:

Version 1.1.0
* Add support for Ubuntu One and others using OAuth 1.0a (#594046, Rodrigo Moya)
* Fix printing in Windows Vista and Windows 7 (#576554)
* Various Windows bug fixes (#585297, #601067, #599688, Stefan Cosma)
* Add CreateNamedNoteWithUri method to dbus interface (#580525, Matt Jones)
* Add dbus methods for working with notebooks (#576329, Clemens Buss)
* Always show icons for note items in recent notes menu (#590653)
* Add Sync menu item to panel applet (#597569)
* Stop cutting off message text in the Sync dialog (#553615)
* Other fixes: #596416, #596395, #597139
* Translation updates: ca, id, it, lv, nb, pl, ro, sl

Special thanks to everyone entering bugs, submitting patches,
keeping translations up to date, and helping to make Tomboy
better!

Sandy
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tomdroid's storage-redesign && what do we want to keep in the database as a note?

2009-11-16T21:17:22Z

hi guys,

Just working on reviewing some code for tomdroid and it got me thinking about something I would like to ask people with tomboy experience.

Let me explain quickly.

There is this hack we do right now in the storage-redesign branch[1] to re-create XML tags after we parse them in a note. The deal is we want to parse the xml tags except the ones in <note-content>..</note-content> so we store XML in our sqlite database for the note-content portion and parse it again on the fly when a Note is viewed.

I _really_ find it disgusting, it looks like:

String tag = "<";

if (uri != null) {
    if (uri.equals(NS_LINK)) {
        tag += PREFIX_LINK+":";
    } else if (uri.equals(NS_SIZE)) {
        tag += PREFIX_SIZE+":";
    }
}

tag += localName+">";
xmlContent.append(tag);

for open tags and close ones inside of a focused xml class.

Now, (and here is where I need your experience), I was thinking about 2 potentials solutions here (aside from the fact that we might just be misusing Java's XML parsing lib):

1- store the whole note instead of just note-content in the database
This way we won't lose addins metatags, full note encryption support will be possible, etc. Also, parsing the few lines of metadata on each load won't be that big of a penalty since its the note's content that is always the biggest.

2- Forget about xml parsing just regexp out the note-content portion then parse the rest of the note. Or just use an xml lib that allows to extract part of the raw xml structure (or find the way to do it in Sax).

I prefer #1 but I'm thinking maybe there are major roadblocks to this solution that I don't foresee.

What does the tomboy people think?

If I'm not clear enough, ask questions i'll readjust.

Thanks for your time.
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Re: OAuth 1.0a and Ubuntu One

2009-11-16T06:22:20Z

Also, if you run into any trouble getting it working with Ubuntu One,
let me know and we'll happily assist with debugging.

--
Elliot Murphy

On Nov 16, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Cornelius Hald <hald@...> wrote:

> Thanks so much for your answer Sandy!
>
> For some reason I was thinking that with the new OAuth 1.0a
> specification the webservice would actually really call back to the
> client and not only redirect the browser. Thanks for proving me
> wrong on that! That would have been a real pain to implement :)
>
> I have some code laying around which is using a conboy:// url
> similar to Tomdroid, so it should be straight forward to extend that
> to include the verifier. If not, I´ll use something like the HttpLis
> tener. Now that I´ve understood that it´s just a call to localhost i
> t shouldn´t be a problem.
>>>
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Re: OAuth 1.0a and Ubuntu One

2009-11-16T01:16:35Z

Thanks so much for your answer Sandy!

For some reason I was thinking that with the new OAuth 1.0a
specification the webservice would actually really call back to the
client and not only redirect the browser. Thanks for proving me wrong on
that! That would have been a real pain to implement :)

I have some code laying around which is using a conboy:// url similar to
Tomdroid, so it should be straight forward to extend that to include the
verifier. If not, I´ll use something like the HttpListener. Now that
I´ve understood that it´s just a call to localhost it shouldn´t be a
problem.

Thank you for putting me back on track again :)
Conny

Sandy Armstrong wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Cornelius Hald <hald@...> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm in the process of upgrading Conboy[1] to support OAuth 1.0a. I
>> decided to test against Ubuntu One as it is (I think) the only public
>> available service yet.
>
> Yup, that's true.
>
>> Maybe you guys could help me a bit, because you've already implemented
>> that in Tomboy. I'm having problems with the oauth_verifier. How do you
>> get the verifier from the service back to the client? I've read that
>> this should happen with the callback url, but then I would have to open
>> a webserver on the client and listen to this callback, which will
>> probably not work because of firewalls, NAT, etc...
>
> This is exactly what Tomboy does, but firewalls, NAT, etc, should not
> be an issue. We start a local web server on the first available port
> (running in the Tomboy process using the HttpListener class), and pass
> the URL to U1. During the next step of the auth process, the U1
> server appends oauth_verifier and some other parameters to that URL,
> and redirects the browser there. That's when you see the plain Tomboy
> page saying "Authorization successful, go back to Tomboy and click
> 'Save'" (or whatever the message says. You can see how this is all
> done in this method:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tomboy/tree/Tomboy/Addins/WebSyncService/WebSyncPreferencesWidget.cs#n102
>
> The point is, the callback stuff all happens on the local machine. U1
> never actually has to talk to that URL...it just redirects the user's
> browser there.
>
>> Another option could be to let the user copy&past the verifier from the
>> website to the client application. Of course this is not very user
>> friendly, but would be ok in the beginning. Anyways, it looks like
>> Ubuntu One does not support that.
>
> Interesting. If you don't have something like the HttpListener class,
> and for whatever reason are unable to get all the request info back to
> Conboy, I guess you could make a web page that displayed the verifier
> and instructed the user to copy/paste it back into Conboy. But I'm
> sure there must be C libraries that do the same thing as HttpListner
> (I'd hate for you to have to implement your own HTTP parser).
>
> On Microsoft .NET (not Mono), HttpListener requires admin access, so
> on Windows we use Mono's MIT/X11 implementation, which could be useful
> to you:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tomboy/tree/Tomboy/Addins/WebSyncService/MonoHttp
>
>> So how did you do that in Tomboy? I've tried it and it works, but it
>> looks like magic to me ;)
>>
>> It would be great someone of you could give me some hints!
>
> Hopefully the information above is sufficient. That and the OAuth
> 1.0a spec are the best resources I can think of. If you have any more
> questions, let me know! :-)
>
> Sandy

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Re: OAuth 1.0a and Ubuntu One

2009-11-15T18:32:46Z

I should mention that instead of starting a local web server, Tomdroid
registers itself with a URL on the phone...tomdroid://sync or some
such. No idea if that scheme would make more sense on Maemo, too.

Sandy

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Sandy Armstrong
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Re: Tomboy Won't Start

2009-11-15T16:14:17Z

Steve,

Executing this command while Tomboy is not running should fix your problem:

rm -rf ~/.config/tomboy/addin-db-001

A few Ubuntu users have complained of this after an upgrade. I am not
entirely sure what is causing it, but after deleting the addin db
things should go back to normal.

I wouldn't recommend switching to Gnote, only because it is now an
abandoned project (it was a port of Tomboy to C++), and also it does
not support note synchronization and a few other features. But if you
decide to stick with Gnote, they have their own mailing list:

http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnote-list

Let me know if you run into any more issues,
Sandy

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, steveb357 <steveb357@...> wrote:

> Sandy,
>
> This is what the terminal gives me:
>
> Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not read add-in
> description
> at Mono.Addins.Addin.get_Description () [0x00000]
> at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.CheckHostAssembly
> (System.Reflection.Assembly asm) [0x00000]
> at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.ActivateRoots () [0x00000]
> at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.Initialize () [0x00000]
> at Mono.Addins.AddinManager.Initialize (System.String configDir) [0x00000]
> at Tomboy.AddinManager.InitializeMonoAddins (System.String old_conf_dir)
> [0x00000]
> at Tomboy.AddinManager..ctor (System.String tomboy_conf_dir, System.String
> old_tomboy_conf_dir) [0x00000]
> at Tomboy.NoteManager..ctor (System.String directory, System.String
> backup_directory) [0x00000]
> at Tomboy.NoteManager..ctor (System.String directory) [0x00000]
> at Tomboy.Tomboy.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
>
>
> I uninstalled Tomboy and reinstalled it. Still no joy.
> I installed gnote, and It looks like Tomboy, and retrieves all my Tomboy
> notes, but I'm sort of unsure about what is going on.
>
> SteveB
>
> ---- On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:45:39 +0000 Sandy Armstrong
> <sanfordarmstrong@...> wrote ----
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:33 PM, steveb357 <steveb357@...> wrote:
>> I upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu. Since then, I can't get
>> Tomboy
>> to open at all. It was consistantly crashing in the older version of
>> Ubuntu, but it won't open at all in this one. Do you have any
>> suggestions?
>
> Hmm, that doesn't sound very fun.
>
> Please make sure tomboy isn't running, then start Tomboy from a
> terminal, and when it crashes, paste the output you get from the
> terminal here.
>
> If you ever experience Tomboy crashing, please let us know. I'm not
> aware of any crasher bugs right now.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy
>
>

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Re: Tomboy Won't Start

2009-11-15T13:45:39Z

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:33 PM, steveb357 <steveb357@...> wrote:
> I upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu. Since then, I can't get Tomboy
> to open at all. It was consistantly crashing in the older version of
> Ubuntu, but it won't open at all in this one. Do you have any suggestions?

Hmm, that doesn't sound very fun.

Please make sure tomboy isn't running, then start Tomboy from a
terminal, and when it crashes, paste the output you get from the
terminal here.

If you ever experience Tomboy crashing, please let us know. I'm not
aware of any crasher bugs right now.

Thanks,
Sandy
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Tomboy Won't Start

2009-11-15T13:33:27Z

I upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu. Since then, I can't get Tomboy to open at all. It was consistantly crashing in the older version of Ubuntu, but it won't open at all in this one. Do you have any suggestions?

SteveB

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Re: OAuth 1.0a and Ubuntu One

2009-11-15T13:12:45Z

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Cornelius Hald <hald@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm in the process of upgrading Conboy[1] to support OAuth 1.0a. I
> decided to test against Ubuntu One as it is (I think) the only public
> available service yet.

Yup, that's true.

> Maybe you guys could help me a bit, because you've already implemented
> that in Tomboy. I'm having problems with the oauth_verifier. How do you
> get the verifier from the service back to the client? I've read that
> this should happen with the callback url, but then I would have to open
> a webserver on the client and listen to this callback, which will
> probably not work because of firewalls, NAT, etc...

This is exactly what Tomboy does, but firewalls, NAT, etc, should not
be an issue. We start a local web server on the first available port
(running in the Tomboy process using the HttpListener class), and pass
the URL to U1. During the next step of the auth process, the U1
server appends oauth_verifier and some other parameters to that URL,
and redirects the browser there. That's when you see the plain Tomboy
page saying "Authorization successful, go back to Tomboy and click
'Save'" (or whatever the message says. You can see how this is all
done in this method:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tomboy/tree/Tomboy/Addins/WebSyncService/WebSyncPreferencesWidget.cs#n102

The point is, the callback stuff all happens on the local machine. U1
never actually has to talk to that URL...it just redirects the user's
browser there.

> Another option could be to let the user copy&past the verifier from the
> website to the client application. Of course this is not very user
> friendly, but would be ok in the beginning. Anyways, it looks like
> Ubuntu One does not support that.

Interesting. If you don't have something like the HttpListener class,
and for whatever reason are unable to get all the request info back to
Conboy, I guess you could make a web page that displayed the verifier
and instructed the user to copy/paste it back into Conboy. But I'm
sure there must be C libraries that do the same thing as HttpListner
(I'd hate for you to have to implement your own HTTP parser).

On Microsoft .NET (not Mono), HttpListener requires admin access, so
on Windows we use Mono's MIT/X11 implementation, which could be useful
to you:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tomboy/tree/Tomboy/Addins/WebSyncService/MonoHttp

> So how did you do that in Tomboy? I've tried it and it works, but it
> looks like magic to me ;)
>
> It would be great someone of you could give me some hints!

Hopefully the information above is sufficient. That and the OAuth
1.0a spec are the best resources I can think of. If you have any more
questions, let me know! :-)

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Re: Using dbus api to sync tomboy

2009-11-15T12:55:12Z

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Matthew Jones <mattjones@...> wrote:

>>> Well, normally I would recommend using the existing sync
>>> infrastructure, or perhaps conduit, to avoid duplication of work. But
>>> that being said, I don't see any problem with adding that method, as
>>> long as it errors-out in the case of guid conflicts or a malformed
>>> guid.
>>>
>>> Please file an enhancement bug with a patch in bugzilla.
>>>
>>> Good luck with your project,
>>> Sandy
>
> What is the status of my patch? It has been ignored for the past 7
> months: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580525.
>
> What is the deal? It is a trivial patch, and could be added in seconds.

Thanks for the reminder. Today was a good day to send this email, as
I'm prepping the next Tomboy release. I'll review your patch today,
and if there's nothing wrong with it it will be in tomorrow's release.

Sorry for the long delay!

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OAuth 1.0a and Ubuntu One

2009-11-15T12:13:35Z

Hi!

I'm in the process of upgrading Conboy[1] to support OAuth 1.0a. I
decided to test against Ubuntu One as it is (I think) the only public
available service yet.

Maybe you guys could help me a bit, because you've already implemented
that in Tomboy. I'm having problems with the oauth_verifier. How do you
get the verifier from the service back to the client? I've read that
this should happen with the callback url, but then I would have to open
a webserver on the client and listen to this callback, which will
probably not work because of firewalls, NAT, etc...

Another option could be to let the user copy&past the verifier from the
website to the client application. Of course this is not very user
friendly, but would be ok in the beginning. Anyways, it looks like
Ubuntu One does not support that.

So how did you do that in Tomboy? I've tried it and it works, but it
looks like magic to me ;)

It would be great someone of you could give me some hints!

Thanks a lot!
Conny

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Re: Export entire notebook to PDF

2009-11-12T14:17:35Z

Being able to export multiple notes (one or many notebooks, entire
collection, arbitrary note selections, etc) is an open gnome-love bug
that would be an excellent choice for anyone looking to start with
Tomboy development. Not too hard and quite useful!

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356871

Related bugs:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338860
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395893

Sandy

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ben2K <klausner@...> wrote:

>
> But it's incomplete. The current export tot HTML only exports the note and
> its explicit links. It doesn't export the entire notebook. For example, if a
> note is a link off another link, not shown in the root note, it doesn't
> export.
>
>
> Paul Cutler-3 wrote:
>>
>> Export to HTML is available in Tomboy.
>>
>> Open a note, and in the toolbar click the Tools icon to the left of the
>> trash and choose Export to HTML
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Ben2K <klausner@...> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Boyd Timothy wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Exporting an entire notebook as a PDF is an excellent
>>> > suggestion and something we ought to look at doing in the next
>>> > release. Right now, we're in bugfixing mode only. That should be
>>> > lifted in a month.
>>> >
>>>
>>> It would be even nicer if there were an "Export Notebook" that allowed
>>> HTML
>>> to be selected as the format. HTML is easy to convert to just about
>>> anything
>>> (including PDF), whereas converting PDF to something else is more
>>> problematic.
>>>
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Re: Export entire notebook to PDF

2009-11-12T14:15:21Z

But it's incomplete. The current export tot HTML only exports the note and its explicit links. It doesn't export the entire notebook. For example, if a note is a link off another link, not shown in the root note, it doesn't export.

Paul Cutler-3 wrote:

Export to HTML is available in Tomboy.

Open a note, and in the toolbar click the Tools icon to the left of the
trash and choose Export to HTML

Paul

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Ben2K <klausner@frijoles.net> wrote:

>
>
> Boyd Timothy wrote:
> >
> > Exporting an entire notebook as a PDF is an excellent
> > suggestion and something we ought to look at doing in the next
> > release. Right now, we're in bugfixing mode only. That should be
> > lifted in a month.
> >
>
> It would be even nicer if there were an "Export Notebook" that allowed HTML
> to be selected as the format. HTML is easy to convert to just about
> anything
> (including PDF), whereas converting PDF to something else is more
> problematic.
>
> --
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Re: Export entire notebook to PDF

2009-11-12T14:00:51Z

Export to HTML is available in Tomboy.

Open a note, and in the toolbar click the Tools icon to the left of the trash and choose Export to HTML

Paul

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Ben2K <klausner@...> wrote:

Boyd Timothy wrote:
>
> Exporting an entire notebook as a PDF is an excellent
> suggestion and something we ought to look at doing in the next
> release. Right now, we're in bugfixing mode only. That should be
> lifted in a month.
>

It would be even nicer if there were an "Export Notebook" that allowed HTML
to be selected as the format. HTML is easy to convert to just about anything
(including PDF), whereas converting PDF to something else is more
problematic.

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Re: Export entire notebook to PDF

2009-11-10T17:55:32Z

Boyd Timothy wrote:

Exporting an entire notebook as a PDF is an excellent
suggestion and something we ought to look at doing in the next
release. Right now, we're in bugfixing mode only. That should be
lifted in a month.

It would be even nicer if there were an "Export Notebook" that allowed HTML to be selected as the format. HTML is easy to convert to just about anything (including PDF), whereas converting PDF to something else is more problematic.

Re: os x shortcut keys don't use Command

2009-11-08T13:49:14Z

Hi Richie,

This bug has been filed here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560738

There is a patch on the way to fix it for Tomboy 1.2. Please let us
know if you run into any other issues.

Best,
Sandy

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Rich E <reakinator@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been a longer user of Tomboy on Ubuntu and I recently bought a Mac.
> I have Tomboy installed there and it works great so far, but I noticed that
> hotkeys still use the 'PC' way instead of the 'Mac' way - that is, you have
> to use Control instead of the Apply/Command button. I don't know if this is
> known, or unimportant to others, but I like having the hotkeys consistent
> for closing windows and programs.
>
> Just my 2cents,
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os x shortcut keys don't use Command

2009-11-08T08:56:22Z

Hi,

I have been a longer user of Tomboy on Ubuntu and I recently bought a Mac. I have Tomboy installed there and it works great so far, but I noticed that hotkeys still use the 'PC' way instead of the 'Mac' way - that is, you have to use Control instead of the Apply/Command button. I don't know if this is known, or unimportant to others, but I like having the hotkeys consistent for closing windows and programs.

Just my 2cents,
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Re: Using dbus api to sync tomboy

2009-11-05T18:04:35Z

>> Well, normally I would recommend using the existing sync
>> infrastructure, or perhaps conduit, to avoid duplication of work. But
>> that being said, I don't see any problem with adding that method, as
>> long as it errors-out in the case of guid conflicts or a malformed
>> guid.
>>
>> Please file an enhancement bug with a patch in bugzilla.
>>
>> Good luck with your project,
>> Sandy

What is the status of my patch? It has been ignored for the past 7
months: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580525.

What is the deal? It is a trivial patch, and could be added in seconds.

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Re: Evernote sync

2009-10-30T06:50:20Z

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Alberto Fornasier <gimli@...> wrote:

> 2009/10/27 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong@...>:
>> Since as far as I know nobody is working on Evernote sync at this
>> time, the only way you could help is by writing code (or
>> finding/paying somebody to write code). Otherwise, I suggest staying
>> subscribed to this email list so you can find out if anybody does
>> start such a project.
>
> I'm interested in some form of sync with Evernote too. I use Tomboy
> both on my netbook and my work laptop. Having them sync'd through the
> cloud would allow me to access them from my mobile (Android based
> smartphone in case you're interested) easily.

In this case, what we are pushing for is to use a Tomboy-specific
online service for syncing your notes, and then to use Tomdroid on
your Android device. This is still work-in-progress, but I hope it
will all be ready by the time Tomboy 1.2 is released in March.

Right now you can use Canonical's proprietary Ubuntu One service to
sync your notes to the cloud, and soon we will be releasing Tomboy
Online, which is just a hosted instance of our AGPL Snowy software.
This means that anyone with the desire to host their own personal
Tomboy Online could do so. Other online services like Midgard are
also compatible with Tomboy's web synchronization.

With both of these services, you should be able to browse your notes
from any web browser on any device. But there is a branch of Tomdroid
which supports synchronization with these services, and hopefully that
will be merged for release soon.

As for the rest of your post, I really don't know anything about
Evernote, and can't really help. But other people on this list have
expressed interest in syncing with Evernote, so maybe there are some
people out there who already have ideas on how to implement
Tomboy<->Evernote sync.

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Re: Evernote sync

2009-10-30T00:39:19Z

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 23:28 +0100, Alberto Fornasier wrote:
> Yes, Tomboy on Windows runs fine. Some kind of Android
> port/app/whatever would be nice too ;)
> Jokes aside, and sorry for the partial thread hijacking: does anyone
> here know whether there's some kind of application around to read/sync
> tomboy notes on an Android device?

Have a look at Tomdroid. The author is also on this list.
https://launchpad.net/tomdroid

Cheers!
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Re: Evernote sync

2009-10-29T15:28:50Z

2009/10/27 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong@...>:
> Since as far as I know nobody is working on Evernote sync at this
> time, the only way you could help is by writing code (or
> finding/paying somebody to write code). Otherwise, I suggest staying
> subscribed to this email list so you can find out if anybody does
> start such a project.

I'm interested in some form of sync with Evernote too. I use Tomboy
both on my netbook and my work laptop. Having them sync'd through the
cloud would allow me to access them from my mobile (Android based
smartphone in case you're interested) easily.
even though this idea sounds great, I was wondering how exactly a
plugin or other kind of software implementing this feature should
work.
Sending note files as they are, with tags and all kind of metadata,
probably isn't a good idea: tuu much stuff that gets in the way when
you try to read the note through web/desktop app/mobile app. Some kind
of editing must be done before sending the content to Evernote (using
the HTML export feature maybe?).
Even if we/you can manage to export the notes in a readable format,
how would the plugin know which note it has to update when you start
the sync? Some exploration of the capabilities of Evernote's desktop
app (closed source and Windows only, though it runs fine in wine) may
do the trick here, if there's some way to access its database
directly. Syncing through it could even be simple and wouldn't be too
restricting, because everyone using Evernote probably has the desktop
app installed on every pc where he/she has Tomboy.
I'll try and browse the docs of the app. Has anyone started
researching on this subject?
Do you have any idea about how this feature should work?

> Sorry I don't have better news for you. On the plus side, Tomboy is
> available for Windows. If it becomes available for iPhone I'm sure
> that would be announced here as well.

Yes, Tomboy on Windows runs fine. Some kind of Android
port/app/whatever would be nice too ;)
Jokes aside, and sorry for the partial thread hijacking: does anyone
here know whether there's some kind of application around to read/sync
tomboy notes on an Android device?

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Re: Evernote sync

2009-10-27T15:55:53Z

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Shai Inbal <shai.calcalist@...> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm a great fan of tomboy on my ubuntu netbook, but also of evernote on my
> iphone and my work windows pc. As for now, it seems that there's no
> intention of porting evernote for linux, but there's been some discussions
> about a syncing plugin in the tomboy team. It's even in the roadmap at the
> website!

The Tomboy team is not working on Evernote sync, and it is not on our
roadmap, which you can check out here:

http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap

It has been suggested as a useful feature on the PlaceForNewIdeas
page, but nobody has shared any actual code, as far as I am aware.

> I wanted to ask about the progress of making the evernote sync plugin. Who
> is working on this? How can i help? I'm not much of a programmer, but i can
> beta test & report bugs.

Since as far as I know nobody is working on Evernote sync at this
time, the only way you could help is by writing code (or
finding/paying somebody to write code). Otherwise, I suggest staying
subscribed to this email list so you can find out if anybody does
start such a project.

Sorry I don't have better news for you. On the plus side, Tomboy is
available for Windows. If it becomes available for iPhone I'm sure
that would be announced here as well.

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Evernote sync

2009-10-27T12:00:05Z

Hi there,
I'm a great fan of tomboy on my ubuntu netbook, but also of evernote
on my iphone and my work windows pc. As for now, it seems that there's
no intention of porting evernote for linux, but there's been some
discussions about a syncing plugin in the tomboy team. It's even in
the roadmap at the website!

I wanted to ask about the progress of making the evernote sync plugin.
Who is working on this? How can i help? I'm not much of a programmer,
but i can beta test & report bugs.

Cheers,

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Re: (nubee) Template Questions

2009-10-27T10:00:26Z

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Daniel M. Eldridge
<dme.tomboy@...> wrote:
> I a new to Tomboy, but boy oh boy, do I love it.

That's great to hear. :-)

> I want to learn how I can format and use templates.
> How do I insert a timestamp into a Template?
> How can I auto delete notes created with Templates a la Note of the Day?
> What else can I do with Templates--besides making custom templates for each
> Notebook I've created.

Actually, right now there is nothing else you can do with templates
besides the very basic feature you've seen. You cannot specify any
sort of "dynamic" content like a timestamp, and you cannot make things
auto-delete. For the first idea, patches are welcome if you or
someone you know likes to program.

> thank-you in advance,
> --Dan
> I am on Vista HomePrem SP2
> I am running:
> Tomboy: 1.0
> TimeStamp 0.1
> Mono, though this is where I get lost....how do I check what version I'm
> running?

On Windows, Mono is not used, so you don't need to specify anything there. ;-)

> and what can I do to get printing working on Vista or under ....whatever it
> is that it takes to get Tomboy running on Vista?

Unfortunately, there is no way for you to fix this...it is a low-level
bug in gtk-sharp that needs to be fixed by someone familiar with that
code. One way to work around this is to export the note to HTML, open
it in your favorite browser, and print from there.

Hope this helps,
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(nubee) Template Questions

2009-10-26T13:43:11Z

I a new to Tomboy, but boy oh boy, do I love it.

I want to learn how I can format and use templates.

How do I insert a timestamp into a Template?

How can I auto delete notes created with Templates a la Note of the Day?

What else can I do with Templates--besides making custom templates for each Notebook I've created.

thank-you in advance,

--Dan

I am on Vista HomePrem SP2

I am running:

Tomboy: 1.0

TimeStamp 0.1

Mono, though this is where I get lost....how do I check what version I'm running?

and what can I do to get printing working on Vista or under ....whatever it is that it takes to get Tomboy running on Vista?

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Re: Scheduling the Tomboy 1.2 Planning Meeting

2009-10-07T12:25:46Z

Well I haven't heard from many people, but I'm going to stick with
this date. The meeting is in 24 hours.

Hope to see you there!

Sandy

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong@...> wrote:

> Hey Everybody,
>
> We've had an exciting cycle getting 1.0 out the door, but as my
> grandma likes to say, "you can sleep when you're dead". In other
> words, it's time to plan our roadmap for Tomboy 1.2 and beyond.
>
> I'd like to have a meeting in IRC next week if possible. I've started
> getting plans together on this wiki page (feel free to add your own
> items to the agenda):
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/DevMeetingOnePointTwo/Plan
>
> To get the scheduling discussion started I'd like to propose that we
> have our meeting Thursday, October 8th, at 19:30 UTC (aka 12:30 PDT
> [0]).
>
> If you would like to attend but that date/time doesn't work for you,
> please let me know ASAP. We should finalize this some time on Monday.
>
> Looking forward to another fun chat,
> Sandy
>
> [0] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?month=10&day=8&year=2009&hour=12&min=30&sec=0&p1=234&p2=0
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Scheduling the Tomboy 1.2 Planning Meeting

2009-10-01T21:03:31Z

Hey Everybody,

We've had an exciting cycle getting 1.0 out the door, but as my
grandma likes to say, "you can sleep when you're dead". In other
words, it's time to plan our roadmap for Tomboy 1.2 and beyond.

I'd like to have a meeting in IRC next week if possible. I've started
getting plans together on this wiki page (feel free to add your own
items to the agenda):

http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/DevMeetingOnePointTwo/Plan

To get the scheduling discussion started I'd like to propose that we
have our meeting Thursday, October 8th, at 19:30 UTC (aka 12:30 PDT
[0]).

If you would like to attend but that date/time doesn't work for you,
please let me know ASAP. We should finalize this some time on Monday.

Looking forward to another fun chat,
Sandy

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Re: New member formal introduction

2009-10-01T20:55:41Z

Welcome Wolter, I'm really looking forward to having your help on this rewrite!

The plan on the wiki is looking great. :-)

Sandy

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Wolter Hellmund <wolterh6@...> wrote:

> Hi all. I come to help with the rewriting of Tomboy's documentation
> which is apparently having license conflicts. If you have any
> documentation request in specific, don't hesitate in letting me know
> through this list. In the meantime, I will be working out
> http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas/TomboyHelp
> --
> Best regards,
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New member formal introduction

2009-09-30T00:20:31Z

Hi all. I come to help with the rewriting of Tomboy's documentation
which is apparently having license conflicts. If you have any
documentation request in specific, don't hesitate in letting me know
through this list. In the meantime, I will be working out
http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas/TomboyHelp
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Re: checkboxes for todos

2009-09-23T14:05:14Z

This is something that interests me. No time to hack right now, but
attached is an updated version of Max's patch that applies in latest
git master.

Also attached is a screenshot of how it looks right now, so you can
see that some hackery is still need to make it look decent. If anyone
is interested in working on this, that would rock.

Sandy

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 1:25 PM, Max Wiehle <wiehle@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just had a very quick try at this. It's not even a proof of concept.
> So don't expect any magic or anything. I just tried to get a checkbox
> printed at the beginning of the line since i am not familiar with
> neither tomboy nor gtk or TextView details.
>
> I did not care about where in the addin this would go either. I just
> hacked it right into the core of tomboy.
>
> I attached a patch that won't do anything usefull but convert [] at the
> beginning of a line in checkboxes. They don't get stored either.
>
> Am Mittwoch, denf 26.09.2007, 09:00 -0600 schrieb Boyd Timothy:
>> Well, I don't know that I saved any of that code anywhere. Basically,
>> here are some of the issues I ran into:
>>
>> 1. Modifying the TextBuffer during a TextBuffer.InsertText event
>> (i.e., to add a checkbox) can be very tricky. The problem happens if
>> there are other listeners for this event which follow. If you change
>> the TextIter at all during this process, it can cause some real
>> problems for the following event listeners. Supposedly, you're
>> supposed to be able to correct the TextIter before exiting your event
>> handler, but I haven't figure out the right calls to do that in C#.
> I think reformating the line after finishing it, just the way
> bulletlists do migth reduce some of that trouble. I don't know how this
> would fit into Addins though but the Latex Addin seems to take a similar
> approach.
>
>> 2. The calls to insert at Widget into a ChildAnchor come from the
>> TextView (the UI). During the event handler, you're not dealing with
>> the UI at all and strictly the TextBuffer. I wasn't able to figure
>> out how to get a Widget (like a CheckButton) to get inserted during
>> the event handler.
> I tried this by just adding the anchor and then triggering an event that
> gets handled in the UI and adds the actual widget.
>
>> 3. Another option was trying to use a Gdk.Pixbuf. TextBuffer allows
>> you to insert a Gdk.Pixbuf at a TextIter. This is how Tomboy's
>> Bugzilla Addin works (see the bugzilla addin code for details). I
>> tried going down this route as well, but there are problems doing it
>> this way too: a) you now have to match the theme with a properly drawn
>> checkbox, b) you have to figure out how to capture mouse button clicks
>> so the user can mark the checkbox, c) you've got to figure out how to
>> change the empty box to a box with a check when the user clicks the
>> box.
> I'd prefer a way to insert widgets since that might proof useful later
> on.
>
>> 4. To complicate things even a bit more, since we need unique IDs/Uris
>> to each separate tasks, you can't just use a standard TextTag to mark
>> the todo text as a todo. You have to use anonymous TextTags (I
>> believe the Gtk C API discusses this). So, you have to set up your
>> own data structures to keep track of the TextTags and TextIters. You
>> can't just use the TextTagTable or other methods available from the
>> TextBuffer to deal with the TextTags.
> That's what was puzzling me in the end. What data structures to use, How
> to "store the checkbox" and do the parsing etc.
>
>> In any case, if you'd like to take a stab at it, that would be
>> awesome! Maybe I was trying to use the TextBuffer completely wrong?
>> Perhaps you're a Gtk TextView/TextBuffer expert? If not, maybe your
>> luck will be better than mine and that would ROCK!
> As might be quite obvious i am not an expert at all ;) Might keep trying
> my luck though.
>
> Max
>
>> -Boyd
>>
>> On 9/26/07, Max Wiehle <wiehle@...> wrote:
>> > Hey Boyd,
>> >
>> > You said during the meeting you tried to get checkboxes for todo items
>> > working. I was thinking about giving it a try as well. Just don't want
>> > to run into the same problems again.
>> > I guess you used child anchors of the TextView widget?
>> >
>> > Could you describe your problems or maybe send me your code?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Max
>> >
>> > Am Montag, den 24.09.2007, 08:41 -0600 schrieb Boyd Timothy:
>> > > Everyone's invited to attend the Tomboy Planning Meeting tomorrow:
>> > >
>> > > Who: Everyone who'd like to participate
>> > > Where: #tomboy on irc.gnome.org
>> > > When: Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 13:00 PST
>> > > What: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/DevMeetingZeroPointTen
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[checkbox2.patch]

diff --git a/Tomboy/Note.cs b/Tomboy/Note.cs index 117d9cb..a916700 100644 --- a/Tomboy/Note.cs +++ b/Tomboy/Note.cs @@ -408,6 +408,13 @@ namespace Tomboy return "note://tomboy/" + Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension (filepath); } + + void BufferAddCheckbox (object sender, AnchorForCheckboxEventArgs args) + { + Gtk.Widget checkbox = new Gtk.CheckButton (); + window.Editor.AddChildAtAnchor (checkbox, args.Anchor); + checkbox.Show (); + } public override int GetHashCode () { @@ -982,6 +989,7 @@ namespace Tomboy buffer.TagApplied += BufferTagApplied; buffer.TagRemoved += BufferTagRemoved; buffer.MarkSet += BufferInsertMarkSet; + buffer.AnchorForCheckboxInserted += BufferAddCheckbox; } return buffer; } diff --git a/Tomboy/NoteBuffer.cs b/Tomboy/NoteBuffer.cs index 938ae57..fe305ee 100644 --- a/Tomboy/NoteBuffer.cs +++ b/Tomboy/NoteBuffer.cs @@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ namespace Tomboy public event ChangeDepthHandler ChangeTextDepth; public event NewBulletHandler NewBulletInserted; + public event AnchorForCheckboxHandler AnchorForCheckboxInserted; + public void ToggleActiveTag (string tag_name) { Logger.Log ("ToggleTag called for '{0}'", tag_name); @@ -411,6 +413,44 @@ namespace Tomboy return true; } + // replace "[]" with checkboxes... + else if (iter.Char.Equals ("[")) { + Gtk.TextIter start = GetIterAtLineOffset (iter.Line, 0); + Gtk.TextIter end = GetIterAtLineOffset (iter.Line, 1); + + // Remove the ']' character + if (end.Char != "]") + return false; + + end.ForwardChar(); + + // Set the direction of the bullet to be the same as + // the first character after the '*' or '-' + Pango.Direction direction = Pango.Direction.Ltr; + if (end.Char.Length > 0) + direction = Pango.Global.UnicharDirection (end.Char[0]); + + Delete (ref start, ref end); + + iter = GetIterAtMark (insert_mark); + int offset = iter.Offset; + iter.LineOffset = 0; + + Undoer.FreezeUndo (); + Gtk.TextChildAnchor anchor = this.CreateChildAnchor (ref iter); + Undoer.ThawUndo (); + + AnchorForCheckboxInserted (this, + new AnchorForCheckboxEventArgs (anchor, offset, 0, direction)); + + iter.LineOffset = offset; + + iter = GetIterAtMark (insert_mark); + Insert (ref iter, "\n"); + iter.LineOffset = 0; + + return true; + } return false; } @@ -1124,6 +1164,35 @@ namespace Tomboy public delegate void NewBulletHandler (object o, InsertBulletEventArgs args); + public class AnchorForCheckboxEventArgs : EventArgs + { + Gtk.TextChildAnchor anchor; + int offset; + int line; + int depth; + Pango.Direction direction; + + public Gtk.TextChildAnchor Anchor { get {return anchor; } } + + public int Offset { get {return offset; } } + + public int Line { get {return line; } } + + public int Depth { get {return depth; } } + + public Pango.Direction Direction { get {return direction; } } + + public AnchorForCheckboxEventArgs (Gtk.TextChildAnchor anchor, int offset, int depth, Pango.Direction direction) + { + this.anchor = anchor; + this.offset = offset; + this.depth = depth; + this.direction = direction; + } + } + + public delegate void AnchorForCheckboxHandler (object o, AnchorForCheckboxEventArgs args); + public class NoteBufferArchiver { public static string Serialize (Gtk.TextBuffer buffer)

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Re: [Snowy] New official Ubuntu PPA for Tomboy

2009-09-22T07:25:58Z

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 06:22 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I am pleased to announce that thanks to the hard work of Alan Pope
>> (and some help from the awesome Jorge Castro), we now have an official
>> PPA for the Tomboy project.
>>
> cool,great news!
>
> Are you also planning to do have snowy packages in there?

Hmm, I hadn't really thought about Snowy packaging. If we were to do
that, they'd have to be in a separate PPA, but there's no reason it
couldn't be managed by the same Launchpad team, at least initially.

I don't have any short-term plans to package Snowy in there, but if
you or anyone else wanted to work on that, it would be very welcome.
:-)

Thanks,
Sandy
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