[tomboy-list] Enhancement suggestion to Tomboy's UndoManager (to support custom EditActions)

[Matt Guo]

Russ,

oh, interesting, thanks.

I've fixed 2 of your reported issues:
* keep aspect ratio when dragging image corner
* file externsions like ".jPg" are not shown in the open image dialog.

Also the new "InsertImage.dll"  (49664 bytes) has been uploaded to the
Web server.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Russ Fretenburg
<russ.fretenburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> See comments below.
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Matt Guo <matt at mattguo.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Russ Fretenburg
>> <russ.fretenburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Matt,
>> > Thanks for this addin. It looks really useful. Here are some comments
>> > from
>> > my initial testing.
>> >
>> > I use local folder sync to synchronize a Windows XP machine, and two
>> > Ubuntu
>> > machines. I use this every day for work and it's great. So of course I
>> > wish
>> > this image addin worked with sync. When I first tried it yesterday it
>> > caused
>> > Tomboy on my Windows machine to lock up but today after getting the
>> > latest
>> > dll that you mentioned it does not lock up. I just don't get the image
>> > copied over to the second machine. Do you plan to work on the sync
>> > capability for images?
>> Thanks, Russ. Sync is still not feasible fow now. Tomboy hasn't
>> started to provide infrastrcuture to sync addins, though we already
>> had some related discussions on this topic before.
>> As Sandy pointed, 2 of them are:
>>
>> http://lists.beatniksoftware.com/pipermail/tomboy-list-beatniksoftware.com/2009-December/001414.html
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632015#c3
>> Also I have some new ideas on this topic since
>> a) inspired by tomboy-image
>> b) I'm now working for a push-mail company. As I understand, "Tomboy
>> with attachments" becomes sorts like a email server. You know, emails
>> are rich texts with all kinds (aka MIME types) of embedded
>> attachments; and we need to sync them to various clients, not only
>> correctly, but also efficiently.
>> I'll write the whole idea down some time later, maybe this Friday.
>
> That sounds good. I will have a look at those posts and I look forward to
> seeing your ideas.
>
>>
>> > It's great to be able to easily resize the image in a note but I think
>> > it
>> > would be better if when you grab the corner it maintains the original
>> > aspect
>> > ratio.
>> Yes, it can be very useful. How can I forgot this feature.
>>
>> > On Ubuntu 10.10 when I try to insert a local image some folders show no
>> > images in the file dialog even though they have many images. It just
>> > looks
>> > like an empty folder in the file dialog. Other folders work fine. I am
>> > not
>> > sure what the difference is.
>> I also installed Ubuntu 10.10, can you provide more info of the "empty
>> folder", such as the "ls -l dir_name" info?
>
> Here is an interesting sample dir listing. It displays only the first three
> files in the file chooser dialog. In Nautilus they are all visible as normal
> jpg photos. The other interesting thing is that the ones that are visible in
> the file chooser are colored magenta in the terminal listing as I show here.
> I am not sure what that means, especially since the permissions all look the
> same.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg 377659 2006-02-04 21:27 Haberl Hut july
> 17 005.jpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg 404072 2006-02-04 21:27 Haberl Hut july
> 17 007.jpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg 366540 2006-02-04 21:27 Haberl Hut july
> 17 015.jpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  67968 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3380.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  72434 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3385.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  65253 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3404.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  69480 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3411.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  46147 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3437.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  54996 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3460.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  59104 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3463.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  86217 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3475.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  58705 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3477.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  50118 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3495.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  68401 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3514.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  62091 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3524.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  53250 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3529.JPG
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fretenburg fretenburg  75606 2006-02-04 21:27 IMGP3536.JPG
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Ok, I just figured out the difference as I was writing this - when the
> extension is in upper case it isn't recognized as an image file it seems.
> That goes for the magenta text as well. I renamed one of the above files
> with lower case .jpg and now it is magenta and it shows up in the file
> chooser dialog.
>
>>
>> > On Windows XP when I try to insert an image the image does not appear in
>> > the
>> > note.
>> Can you send me a copy of the .note file for analysis (DO NOT do it if
>> the note contains any confidential info). The .note files are
>> typically stored in "C:\Documents and
>> Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Application Data\Tomboy\" on XP. You may
>> select the right note by checking the file size (if the note contains
>> image, then the size would be much larger than other pure text notes),
>> or last modified data, or open the .note file (it's XML format) and
>> check the <title> element.
>
> I will have to wait until tomorrow to do this as my Windows machine is at
> work.
>>
>> > I would love to be able to insert or attach other types of objects in
>> > Tomboy
>> > notes too.
>> >
>> > On Ubuntu 10.10 I am running Tomboy 1.4.0 that came with Ubuntu.
>> > On Windows XP I am running Tomboy 1.3.3.
>> > Best regards,
>> > Russ
>> >
>> >
>



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