[tomboy-list] Tomboy : A couple of suggestions

[Didier Dubois]

Dear All,

I was trying to figure out where to put the notes on the 
'PlaceForNewIdeas'... But cannot find the proper places for this.

Here is a couple of suggestions:  
- Keep it simple! That's certainly why Tomboy as so much success! :) 
Keep it simple!
- I was thinking of having different 'subject' classification using 
different 'post-it' colors. For example: 'Work' 'Tomboy' 'Linux',....
- When re-opening Tomboy, it would be great to go to the very latest 
edited note (could it be configured?)
- Tabbed navigation, like in a brother.
- TOC as an other Tomboy Note :) Let's eat our own dog food! :)
- It should be possible to trigger spell checking using keyboards, 
without going to the preference menu.
- Having an history of changes for the notes. At least for a couple of 
days (just like in Wiki/Eclipse,...)
- Would it be difficult to change the 'Start Here' hard coded name with 
a parameted one. Would be usefull for other's language notes :)

And now and other one, I was thinking of - But I suspect it would 
implies a lot of work.
The idea is to be able to link notes with any files of the file-system.
On Nautilus, one would see a little 'preview' of the notes at a corner 
of the file. Would act as metadata on the notes. There is already such a 
think on Nautilus. Would be great to come with a unified system. It 
would be as well integrated with the 'GNumeric' notes,...

A side effect would be the possibility to add easily accessible notes to 
a program (since it's a file :) Of course would be done via the window 
manager. It would show a little note on a corner of the window when the 
note is closed. A simple click would open it. Letting an infinite way of 
navigating through ideas, programs, files,...etc,..... Of course, the 
notes, since context related, would be open with latests changes,....

Example of use case:
- TODO notes on a program, word-processing file, drawing.
- Sharing extra info with others users on a document
- Linking music (ogg files) with other musics using 'plain english', 
adding information on the file (evaluation, tags, info, images, video, 
web sites,...)

I'm not sure if I was clear (sorry for my English) or if it makes 
sense,... but hope that helps!

Cheers,
D.