Re: gnote vs Tomboy-some facts

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On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 23:22 +0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Michael Semcheski
> <mhsemcheski@xxxxxxxxx> 
>          My impression based on the websites for snowy and tomboy are:
>         1. It sounds like Tomboy sync is not fully implemented yet.
>          Maybe in
>         a non-stable development version.
>         2. The gnome-snowy project is the backend for Tomboy's sync,
>         and its
>         not stable yet.
>         
>         So, give this feature some time.  Synchronization always ends
>         up being
>         a tougher problem to solve than it sounds like
> 
> 
> Yep.  Snowy and Tomboy sync is not a stable combination yet and hence
> using Gnote is really no different.  In addition to that,  GNOME
> hasn't hosted web services directly before and this would be their
> first venture.  It seems a bit of a experimental thing for them at
> this point.  I heard Tomboy sync works well with Ubuntu One but that
> is a proprietary solution unfortunately. 
> 
> 
> Rahul 

Well once again Rahul we are having difficulty communicating and I don't
know why. For a week or so I have been asking people to share with me
information on syncing in tomboy. If you or Michael had shared with me
the information above the whole discussion would not have gone on for
the length you object to.

OK, if by synchronization of the databases of two machines you mean
updating the information in the gnote (or tomboy) on the first machine
with the database information on the second machine, this is trivial to
do. I am tempted to leave the solution to the reader with the hint that
using this method would necessitate logging off and logging on again on
the second machine.

The tomboy synchronization does work but the synchronized database ends
up in a file called sync-sshfs in the .cache/tomboy of the users home
directory where it can not be accessed by tomboy. If someone knew how to
transfer this information to the proper tomboy database the system would
work. Information on this would be accepted.


Now for man pages. Here Rahul we disagree. The man page should contain a
discriprion of all the options available in the the program (GUI or
command line). Or there should be an info file with this information. It
is the documentation of the program's use. (I admit this approach is not
followed in most man pages). I have taught Software Development and
believe in the rules set down by Fred Brooks in "Mythical Man Month"
that Documentation is an integral part of the development process. No
software updated in  2011 should have documentation dated 2004.

The configuration of Tomboy under Ubuntu is described in detail 
in the Tomboy wiki:
http://live.gnome.org/SeanFritz/UbuntuGutsyTomboySync

It requires software not available in Fedora. Is this the proprietary
part you are talking about Rahul?
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