We recently installed gnote.  We never had Tomboy installed, but used the stickynotes-applet before.  But our notes from stickynotes do not get imported.

I looked a bit at the problem, and I BELIEVE I understand what is wrong.  The code in StickyNoteImportNoteAddin::want_to_run in stickynoteimportnoteaddin.cpp does

  gconf_client_get_bool(client, TB_STICKYNOTEIMPORTER_FIRST_RUN, &error);

to determine if it is to run.  If "error" is set, the code assumes Tomboy wasn't installed, and this import should be done.

But gconf_client_get_bool does not set error if the key does not exist.  (As far as I can tell.  This is where "I believe" mainly comes in.)  The error is only set if the key exists but has a value of a different type than boolean.

If the key does not exist, the gconf_client_get_bool simply returns a default value, which for booleans is "false".  And the consequence of this is that this function also will return false, and no imports will be done.