[tomboy-list] Tomboy on Mac

[Jared Jennings]

Completely agree and from a developers point of view this isn't a small
task. I think there could be some really nice payoffs for this, but I don't
want to loose any of the existing work. There are a lot of add-ins already
in place and supported; these wouldn't migrate over to Mac or IOS or such.
That would be another discussion how to best handle that.

-Jared


On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Olivier Bilodeau <olivier at bottomlesspit.org
> wrote:

> Great plan! Can't wait to see progress on this.
>
> Be careful about regressions. Starting from scratch tends to reintroduce
> problems.
> --
> Olivier Bilodeau <olivier at bottomlesspit.org>
> On my mobile phone, please excuse my brevity.
> On Feb 28, 2012 6:20 PM, "Jared Jennings" <jaredljennings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm probably going to stir a pot or later realize that I am talking
>> crazy, but that's what I do :)
>>
>> While trying to get Tomboy to run on Lion I realized that there's no easy
>> way to use MonoMac. It crosses between GTK and Cocoa. I've already been
>> thinking about writing Tomboy for IOS and Android using the Mono libraries.
>> So with that in mind I am proposing the following.
>>
>> We pull the current Tomboy core code into a library.
>> We build a new Tomboy project for Mac, based on MonoMac.
>> The existing Tomboy code will remain GTK and slowly transition to
>> utilizing the newer Tomboy library.
>>
>> I'm willing to care most of this effort, although of course would welcome
>> ALL the contribution possible. I will host all of the work on public repo's
>> so anyone can play at any time.
>>
>> I think this will enhance the user experience for Tomboy, especially on
>> Mac.
>> Future cross-platform support could become more easy.
>> Also it would help push us to breaking code from GUI as we had discussed
>> in the past.
>>
>> Thoughts welcome.
>>
>> -Jared
>>
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