Re: [Fwd: Post-It Notes]

[Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101 psu edu>]

Hi Loban. I agree with Havoc that this would be a nice addition
(probably to gnome-applets). Without having tried your applet yet, here
is my advice to get it included in gnome-applets. I think an applet like
this should be very simple. Looking at goats, it seems to me to be an
overkill (just looking at the right click menu on the notes). Being the
maintainer of gnome-applets, I'd much prefer an applet that is focused
and simple, rather than one that has more features. Most people will
want to press a button, type in some text, and that's pretty much it.

When I get some time, I'll try your applet and provide more comments if
I have any.

Regards,
Kevin

On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 20:03, Loban Amaan Rahman wrote:
> I'm resending a bunch of mail because I just learned that my mail
> program had gotten borked and has been swallowing my "sent" mail for the
> past couple of weeks. If you have already received this, please ignore.
> 
> Cheers,
> Loban
> 
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> 
> From: Loban Amaan Rahman <loban earthling net>
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Post-It Notes
> Date: 28 Nov 2002 19:12:20 -0800
> 
> I'm resending this because it apparently did not go through the first time.
> 
> For a while I've been wanting a simple "Post-It Notes" utility for my
> Gnome Desktop. Back during the 1.2/1.4 era, there were a few third-party
> (i.e. not part of the official gnome release) applets/applications that
> existed, most notably GNotes and Molasses. However, they are all
> currently unmaintained and unported.
> 
> I've written one as a gnome-2 panel applet. You can left-click on it to
> create a new post-it note on the desktop. Right-clicking offers several
> options (destroy all notes, hide/unhide all notes, etc). Right clicking
> on a post-it note itself allows you to create/destroy notes.
> 
> (Note: you need to right click on the date stamp of the post-it note.
> Right-clicking on the text area justs opens the default context menu for
> a GtkTextView).
> 
> I was wondering if this could be included as part of the official
> gnome-applets or gnome-core package? It's as useful as any of the other
> applets in there, I believe. If there is interest, I'll complete the
> remaining polishing needed (translatable skins, atk, tooltips, etc), and
> then inquire to the appropriate maintainers about merging my code in.
> 
> (Note: I wrote this against gtk+-2.0.2)
> 
> You can download the package to try out from:
> 	http://loban.caltech.edu/scratch/postit_applet-0.2.tar.gz
> 	http://loban.caltech.edu/scratch/postit_applet-0.2-screenshot.png
> 
> Feedback is welcome!
> 
> Cheers,
> Loban.
>  
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