Replacing Tomboy with Gnote in Fedora GNOME group

[Rahul Sundaram]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> On 04/13/2009 08:57 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>> I just packaged and pushed in Gnote, a a port of Tomboy to C++ for
>> rawhide (and Fedora 10), a couple of days back. Gnote is compatible with
>> Tomboy and you can just cp .tomboy to .gnote and use the notes. The user
>> interface is exactly the same.
> 
> Thanks Rahul, I was eagerly awaiting to replace Tomboy with something
> and get rid of the last trace of Mono from my computer. However, I have
> a couple of minor observations:
> - it would be handy if Gnote would automatically import at the first use
> the existing notes from Tomboy (it seems a manual copy do the job);

Not sure how to do this sanely for all users at the packaging level.

Probably should be a upstream feature request to import on first run
instead. I don't think upstream has a bug tracker yet so file it in the
Red Hat one and I will talk to the developer about it.

> - Gnote installs an entry under Applications->Accessories while Tomboy
> can be found in the "Add to Panel" dialog, it would be handy for Gnote
> to be launched in the same way as Tomboy.

Gnote is not a applet.

Rahul