Re: Tomboy in 2.16

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Hi,

I've never really felt comfortable with the linked-square icons, which 
is why the Tintin logo has been around for so long.  Though, at this 
point, I suspect the linked-square is reaching de-facto status.  (I 
would like to note that I've never received a patch to switch the icons, 
even though every distro is using one.)

I raise the question of stickynotes in my original mail...  I am 
somewhat indifferent to the decision.  I do think forcing stickynotes 
users onto a completely different interface is a bad idea, especially 
one lacking the features they expect from stickynotes (namely the 
stickiness).  An import wizard the first time tomboy is run might be a 
better option.

-Alex

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:33 -0700, Alex Graveley wrote:
> > Tomboy is already a well-behaved Gnome application, but several tasks 
> > would need to be completed before inclusion:
> >   * Using jimmac's trademark-free icons by default.
>
> The standard sticky notes icon, or the linked notes icon? It seems that
> despite the fact that the linked notes icon is more like notes, it is
> unclear as to what is actualy in the icon, because the concept of linked
> notes is somewhat hard to comprehend for users. We all know that they
> are linked, but perhaps this is just a technical detail that we should
> not be conveying in the icons and such. It's an interesting feature, but
> it's not really the entire selling point that we should be using for
> tomboy, I think. Jakub has drawn some standard sticky-notes style icons,
> which I think probably let users understand what tomboy is, much better.
>
> Also, if we do make tomboy part of the desktop, does that mean we should
> drop the notes applet from gnome-applets? If so, does that mean that we
> will be "losing" data for some users? Can tomboy migrate that data over,
> so that we don't just end up losing the notes for those users?
>
> -- dobey