[tomboy-list] Fwd: Semantic awareness?

Sanford Armstrong sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 12:14:58 PDT 2007


On 4/11/07, Mario Manno <mm-list at mm.42h.de> wrote:
> Tomboy does implicit linking. Implicit linking is bad. It may look
> easier at first, but as your note collection grows you accumulate too
> many links. Your notes become a mess. It actually decreases the
> usability of links.
> Take a look at wikipedia, they use links very carefully.
>
> With tomboy I try to make note titles as long as possible to avoid
> problems. I should have done this from the start, now i'm really afraid
> to rename some notes:
> In the previous example, if the author someday goes to another school,
> he may decide to rename the note 'school' to 'Old School'. Tomboy will
> then happily replace the word 'school' in every notes body with the new
> title.

What do you think of the proposed solution being worked on with bug
350990 [1]?  Do you think it is a sufficient solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Sandy

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350990


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