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New releases from Tomboy and Gnote
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| The GNOME note-taking utilities Tomboy and
| Gnote both made releases recently. Tomboy,
| the older project, released version 1.0.1
| and includes some long-awaited online
| storage features. Gnote, a port of Tomboy
| to C++ instead of the original C#/Mono,
| released version 0.6.3, a bugfix release
| in its own right, but one that put an end
| to rumors that the project was without a
| maintainer.
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http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/364731/89ede2dfc113cdf6/
Ubuntu will no longer come with the GIMP
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/ubuntu-will-no-longer-come-with-the-gimp-2009123/
Recent:
[ANN] gnote 0.5.3
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| I just released gnote 0.5.3. It is a bug fix release.
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http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnote-list/2009-July/msg00002.html
Gnote
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| Well, it seems that since last saturday, Gnote is now the default option in
| Debian for those platforms where Mono unportability prevents Tomboy from
| being used, namely: alpha, hppa, m68k, mipsel, mips, hurd-i386 and
| kopensolaris-i386.
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http://robertmh.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/gnote/
[ANN] gnote 0.5.2
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| I just released gnote 0.5.2. It is a bug fix release.
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http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnote-list/2009-July/msg00000.html
[ANN] gnote 0.5.0
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| Note to packagers:
|
| It no longer depends on boost regex. Instead it uses pcrecpp (part of
| pcre). This was:
|
| 1. to fix a bug with unicode that PCRE deal much better
| 2. as a side effect, reduce the dependencies as boost regex was pulling
| icu (which is big)
|
| Also I removed the libxml++ dependency as it was causing various
| problems between their ABI breakage and the bugs in 2.26. Now only
| libxml2 is needed.
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http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnote-list/2009-June/msg00000.html
Redhat/Fedora drops Mono
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| It will come as no surprise to regular readers that I am heartily encouraged
| by this small snippet of news I picked up via Twitter this afternoon (thanks
| Roy)
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/06/02/redhatfedora-drops-mono/
What's New in Fedora 12 (codename) Alpha
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| Gnote is installed by default in GNOME for this release replacing Tomboy.
| Gnote is a port of Tomboy from Mono to C++ and consumes less resources. Gnote
| is both an applet that can sit in your GNOME panel as well as a individual
| application you can run within other desktop environments. Fedora Desktop
| Live CD excluded Mono in the last releases due to lack of space. Gnote will
| be installed by default in the Live CD as well in this release. Tomboy is
| still available as a optional alternative. If you are upgrading from the
| previous release you will not be migrated to Gnote and will continue to have
| Tomboy. It is easy to migrate to Gnote however as it shares the file format.
| This migration is not automatic. You can copy the notes from Tomboy to Gnote
| using the following command in your home directory
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes#GNOME_2.28
Gnote in F12
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| I have now changed the default panel configuration in F12 to include
| gnote instead of tomboy, and changed comps to make gnote default and
| tomboy optional.
|
| This won't replace tomboy in existing installations, but new
| installations will get gnote instead of tomboy.
|
| This also means that gnote should show up on the live cd (where we
| excluded tomboy previously, due to no space for mono).
|
| Some things are still needed for a 100% smooth experience:
| - pick up existing tomboy notes (less urgent now, since we do not
| replace tomboy...)
| - don't show the 'start here' note initially
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-June/msg00003.html
Strip Mono from Ubuntu and prevent it to come back
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| Really. This stuff is bloody serious, I mean.. will remove f-spot! And other
| stuff. You could also not be able to have sex with more than a partner at
| time anymore. Use it with care. I also wonât able to give you support to any
| issue you may experience.
|
| The day it will require you to remove the whole gnome, instead, youâll know
| weâre in big troubles.
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http://www.stefanoforenza.com/remove-mono-from-ubuntu/
Gnote 0.4.0
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2009/05/27/670-gnote-040
Striking the Right Gnote
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| Not that Figuiere is a Mono advocate. But his opposition over the years has
| been more practical than philosophical. For instance, in several discussion
| threads about Including Mono in GNOME on the desktop-devel-list in July 2006,
| Figuiere objected to shipping Mono-based apps on the grounds that the
| language required a lot of disk space, but was supporting only minor
| applications -- and he made the same objection to Python, a far less
| contentious programming language.
|
| This objection, incidentally, is one that he continues to hold today. Gnote,
| he tells me, "has all to do with the burden of carrying runtime systems
| designed to make the programmer's life easier (but not the users'). Had
| Tomboy been written in Python, it would have gotten the same treatment."
|
| Of course, Figuiere might have soured on Mono after being laid off at Novell
| in February. But, if he did, it would be strange if he continued to use what
| he describes as an "openSUSE 11.1 custom build with SUSE Studio with some
| custom packages" -- free software versions of Novell's own products.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3822091/Striking-the-Right-Gnote.htm
Getting to know Gnote
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| What is a big deal is that Gnote does what I need it to do. The controvery
| surrounding it be hanged (and you can use your favourite search engine to
| learn about the controversy). I like Gnote. Itâs useful. And until something
| better comes along, itâs going to be my note application of choice
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http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/?p=444
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