GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 430078
There's no way to unlink notes
Last modified: 2008-02-26 20:52:19 UTC
Hi, currently there is no way to mark links in notes as normal text again. This feature would be VERY VERY useful. Bye Debian Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394322
I assume you mean internal note links. I think one of the big draws of Tomboy is the automatic implicit linking. The only cases I can think of where it sucks are: 1) Situations like in bug #350990. But we're going to be fixing that. 2) Dead/broken links (we could fix this, too). What specifically makes this a bug with "major" severity?
nothing makes it major, just me clicking on the wrong severity :) Changed it to minor...
I hate links!!!! All I want is a way to have quick an easy access to plain text notes. I do not want formating, links ore proportional fonts! I manadge all the above EXCEPT turning of tomboy links!! The best solution I ever found was xpostitnotes, But that doesn't allow a tabular index to the notes, without making use of special window manager features (CTWM). I used that system for over 15 years... Since 1990!!!! But that software is date and does not work with the modern window systems like Gnome, so I needed to find a new one. Tomboy was better than the rest. BUT its links %^&*@ BIG TIME!!! Once it creates a link you can't edit it, you can't easilly delete it, and editing any line with a file path creates huge numbers of these things! All I want is declare a note PLAIN TEXT, and not have it add any links or any other form of formating to the note. Ever! So what if this is... "one of the big draws". You should still allow it to be turned off, when links are inappropriate!!! As it is I have to kill tomboy, edit the notes BY HAND and remove all the %$^&* links, then restart tomboy, only to have them reappear if I make a minor correction. Arrrrggghhhh... Current tomboy 0.6.1 from Fedora 7 repositories. Other useful things... A "no edit" flag with a link to launch a USER SPECIFIED text editor, on the note.
I can't find any good reason why creating a link shouldn't be undone. This is a serious design flaw. I can't believe an official Gnome project makes such a serious usability mistake.
Removing broken links is covered in bug #384034. I'm marking this as a duplicate. If anyone feels this is inappropriate, please re-open this bug explaining what behavior you feel is a unique bug. But if it's the situations we've already discussed, I'll probably mark it WONTFIX. Thanks for your input! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 384034 ***