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Bug 724449 - Consider featuring Gnote instead of Tomboy
Consider featuring Gnote instead of Tomboy
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Jakub Steiner
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-02-16 00:59 UTC by Michael Catanzaro
Modified: 2014-03-11 14:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
update landing page 'Picks' (1.40 KB, patch)
2014-02-25 13:47 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		committed Details | Review

Description Michael Catanzaro 2014-02-16 00:59:03 UTC 
Gnote is a fork of Tomboy which functions more or less identically, but:

* Gnote is GTK+ 3 and has been for years, whereas Tomboy is still GTK+ 2.
* Gnote uses GNOME 3 style notifications. Tomboy lives in the system tray by default, and its notification icon uses a GNOME 2-style menu.
* Gnote has a header bar.
* Gnote has had upstream appdata for months. I don't *think* Tomboy does.

And so on and so forth. I just don't think it makes sense to feature an app that is not well-integrated with GNOME, when there's an essentially-identical alternative that is. (They even use the same desktop icon.)

There's also Bijiben (aka Notes).  It's arguable whether that app is yet useful enough to be featured, though.
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2014-02-25 10:19:35 UTC 
Notes is probably the one to feature out of the three.
Comment 2 Jakub Steiner 2014-02-25 13:47:22 UTC 
Created attachment 270272 [details] [review]
update landing page 'Picks'

- Pdfmod better integrated and potentially better icon (bug #724120)
- Notes/bijiben better integrated than Tomboy
Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2014-02-25 14:51:01 UTC 
Review of attachment 270272 [details] [review]:

Looks good, thanks.
Comment 4 Jakub Steiner 2014-03-11 14:47:35 UTC 
Attachment 270272 [details] pushed as 790b476 - update landing page 'Picks'