Re: [gnome-love] idea for a new project

[Caleb Groom <caleb calebgroom com>]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 16:25 +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote:
> > Of course you're always free to do whatever you'd like.  If you're
> > searching for a learning experience you probably won't mind reinventing
> > the wheel.  But if your use case is "I don't have a good note-taker,
> > I'll write one" then give Tomboy a look.
>
> Yes I've know Tomboy and yes c# doesn't suite me ...
> I won't call it reinventing the wheel rather doing something with
> different ideas in mind. Tomboy works more as note taker while my idea
> is more of it to be as list keeper. I know tomboy also has this
> ability and more so why not join them ?
> Well I like my idea more instead of having some word alike app in
> front of you full of notes I would rather have a list full of items
> that represent "things". Clicking on an item opens it , it's a more
> structured way of managing your "things". Also it will be writting in
> C and might one day be a part of gnome-applets.

I probably should have said, "making a different or better wheel".  Best
of luck to you with your project.

Given recent events[1] I should point out that it's really cool that we
have multiple apps doing some overlapping tasks.

And I now realize that my reply has been mostly noise.  :(

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-March/thread.html#00078