Smoke testing gnote 3.9.1+

[Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com>]

Hello,

I finally could get today's master HEAD running on my box.
I share here my first impressions.

Note about my set-up and usage: I got hooked and use gnote (tomboy)
massively. On a daily basis, notes have to come when I 'snap'. So I
use gnote through the applet menu, which I put on the top bar with the
"TopIcons" extension. I wish I could put the icon in the top right
corner, as I had on GNOME2, for an optimized access to my notes. I
have regularly a few notes open.


At first I am a bit surprised by the 'single' window design, even
though there is the possibility to create new windows. The windows are
"jumping" because of the different size between various notes and also
with the "main" window. I feel it a bit awkward.

But what disturbs me the most is, when I snap a note from the applet
menu, that it "overwrite" my currently open note.

Use case:
- I am working on a document
- I am using a note as a support
- I got a random idea about something else, I want to note it
- I open the menu, click the note
--> expected a new note pops up, I write, I ESC-close. Super fast.
==> actually: it opens in the window of my support note.

- OK, I write, I ESC-close.

Now I need to select again my note in the recently used.
It seems to be selected, but Enter does not open it.

Suggesting:
==> ENTER to reopen the last note

It would kind of work. With one more keystroke (...).


Now imagine I am writing on this support note, and I want to get some
information from another note. That second will "overwrite" the first
one. I would need to first request a new window, then I am not even
sure into which window will appear the note requested through the
applet menu.

Suggesting:
==> when opened from applet menu, always open in a new window



Other issues:

- the applet icon is having problems, at the beginning it shows
correctly but at some point it looks like corrupted data or wrong
memory reference, some other times there is a grey patch on top of it.


- the applet menu opens completely to the left of its icon. Is it intended?

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- Sometimes when selecting a note in the menu, another one is opened
(not the right note!)


- It seems that something is grabbing the keystrokes and not passing
through non handled key strokes. With the table of content, Ctrl-1/2
or Ctrl-Alt-1 are not answering.



What are the development plans for 3.10, or further?


I hope it helps.
Luc