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Bug 473549 - Please provide option to disable launch of "Search All Notes" window on startup
Please provide option to disable launch of "Search All Notes" window on startup
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
gnome[moved-to-github]
: 480780 616140 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-04 12:42 UTC by Ajay Gautam
Modified: 2017-07-31 12:43 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18



Description Ajay Gautam 2007-09-04 12:42:26 UTC
Application should not get in the way

Other information:
After starting Tomboy, I never use the "Search All Notes" window.
I end up closing it.
Its fine for new users, so they know the capabilities.
But for me, its an annoyance.
It would be so good to not have to close that window on start.
Comment 1 Sandy Armstrong 2007-09-04 13:38:40 UTC
This is a duplicate of bug #443655.  The solution is not to start Tomboy with the "--search" option (see other bug for details and justification).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 443655 ***
Comment 2 Boyd Timothy 2007-09-04 16:31:03 UTC
I'm reopening this one.  I think in Ajay's case, it would be better to have a preference setting for users to disable this behavior rather than having them modify a startup command.  It should be pretty easy to figure something out for the next stable release after 0.8.
Comment 3 Boyd Timothy 2007-09-04 16:31:39 UTC
Marking this as an enhancement.
Comment 4 Sandy Armstrong 2007-09-04 17:41:33 UTC
One way to approach this:

1. Remove "--search" option from our default Tomboy .desktop file, because it would not make sense anymore.

2. Have a GConf preference like "open_search_when_not_applet" that defaults to TRUE.  Expose in Preferences window?

3. When Tomboy is *not* started with the "--panel-applet" option, check the above GConf preference.  Open Search window if set to TRUE.
Comment 5 Sandy Armstrong 2007-09-26 23:21:35 UTC
*** Bug 480780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Boyd Timothy 2008-02-26 19:16:54 UTC
Setting the default assignee and QA Contact to "tomboy-maint@gnome.bugs".
Comment 7 VF 2008-03-24 22:10:45 UTC
Using Tomboy 0.10.0 now, I have tomboy as an applet and the 'search all notes' window pops up every time I log in. Shouldn't this not appear when tomboy is an applet?
Comment 8 Sandy Armstrong 2008-03-25 00:46:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Using Tomboy 0.10.0 now, I have tomboy as an applet and the 'search all notes'
> window pops up every time I log in. Shouldn't this not appear when tomboy is an
> applet?

Sounds like you might also have tomboy in your Startup Programs.
Comment 9 VF 2008-03-25 00:57:21 UTC
Nope, I've double-checked Sessions and I don't, this is a new issue for me with the Ubuntu Hardy beta.
Comment 10 VF 2008-03-25 11:50:58 UTC
Though now it's not doing that anymore.. nevermind
Comment 11 Doug Johnston 2008-10-24 15:18:52 UTC
close?
Comment 12 Sandy Armstrong 2008-10-24 15:36:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> close?
> 

No, Boyd's probably right in comment #2.  Just because we set the .desktop file to default to `tomboy --search`, that doesn't mean a user should have to much with that file if they don't want to see the search window when they start Tomboy.  We should add a pref.
Comment 13 Sandy Armstrong 2010-04-19 00:12:33 UTC
*** Bug 616140 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Raphael J. Schmid 2010-04-20 13:16:03 UTC
I'd like to add that in Ubuntu 10.04, using the panel applet is not a satisfactory fix for this anymore since it looks very much out of place with all the icons now being gray. Maybe it would suffice to have the panel applet icon match the notification area icon?
Comment 15 Sandy Armstrong 2010-04-20 13:23:22 UTC
Hi Raphael.  That's filed as bug #614795, if you want to CC yourself on that to track it.
Comment 16 Raphael J. Schmid 2010-04-20 13:50:43 UTC
Super, thanks!
Comment 17 André Klapper 2017-07-31 12:43:43 UTC
The Tomboy team has moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitHub for bug reports and feature requests: 
      https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues/
Closing this report as NOTGNOME as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 781054) to keep tasks in one place. Please feel free to transfer this task to GitHub if this task is still valid in a recent Tomboy version. 
We are sorry for the inconvenience.