[tomboy-list] Fwd: Semantic awareness?

[Sanford Armstrong]

I think that's a good idea, if renaming notes isn't that common an
occurrence (really I'm just replying as an excuse to get your response
back on-list).

On 4/11/07, Chris Granade <cgranade at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe a dialog box asking if other notes should be changed?
>
> On 4/11/07, Sanford Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think we're most interested in finding a solution that allows us to
> > continue using implicit linking, but to make it inherently safer.  But
> > I don't speak for everyone, of course.
> >
> > If we keep using implicit linking, but have stricter rules for note
> > titles (as proposed in bug 350990), how do people feel about keeping
> > the feature of updating link text when a note is renamed?
> >
> > Sandy
> >
> > On 4/11/07, Chris Granade <cgranade at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'd imagine that a good solution would be an option as to whether to
> > > use implicit linking or explicit linking. Perhaps Tomboy could present
> > > the option in a wizard at start-up? If explicit linking was chosen, I
> > > would think that offering to make a link after the name of another
> > > note was entered. For instance, if someone typed "Start Here", then
> > > after the user presses the last 'e', Tomboy could subtley offer to
> > > make it into a link.
> > >
> > > On 4/11/07, Sanford Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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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