Re: [Fwd: Post-It Notes]

[weisen+gnome-desktop ai mit edu]

Not sure if anyone is still reading this thread, but...

I've been using Goats for a while.  My biggest issue is that I'd rather
that the frames of the notes be more like what the window manager does.  
I'd like to double-click the title bar to shade, right-click to popup the
window menu, etc.  I'm not sure if there's an issue with having the window 
manager handle these (like being stuck with *normal* decorations which 
might not look right), but it would be the obvious way to handle it with 
proper bindings, etc.

Idea: I'd like to be able to associate a note with a window and have a 
"note" icon appear in the title bar.  The idea is that I often have long 
running experiments happening in windows and forget what was going on in 
each one.  It's nice to be able to keep notes.  This may seem a little odd 
because of the transient nature of windows, but I think that simply 
"orphaning" a sticky-note when it's associated window disappears would be 
fine.




Regards,
Neil


On 29 Nov 2002, Loban Amaan Rahman wrote:
> 
> 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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