Bug#272264: Tomboy
Guido Trotter wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:52:57PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: Ciao, There seems to be at least 3 people interested in maintaining this: Ben, Guido and Eric. I suggest to create a tomboy project on Alioth, and then comaintain with it. For me it would be ok... Maybe even Luca can come back! ;) What do the other think? Guido I'm willing to help get this into Sid. I'll do whatever needs doing, just let me know. -- "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#272264: Tomboy
Ben Hill wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 08:14 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: With so many people wanting this package, I can't believe it isn't available from Debian yet. I've been a bit reserved about maintaining it because I didn't want to step on any toes but here we are six months later and still no results. I was forced to make my own package because I need binaries for PPC. I now have a PPC machine so I'll produce PPC packages (Debian installed last night) I didn't take over the ITP six months ago, so it's not been that long for me. At this point my main concern is that Tomboy make its way into Sid. If you are looking for a commitment then here it is... I will take responsibility for this package. If this is acceptable then please contact me. If it's not, then please someone, step up and make this app part of Debian. Tomboy uses copywritten graphics, so can't be included until that is removed. I've been talking with the upstream author about getting these removed, as soon as they are, I'll prepare i386 and PPC packages and upload them to mentors. I understand people want to use it as it's a great bit of software - me as much as anyone, but we have to get the artwork resolved. Hope this clarifies why there has been the delay. Cheers, Ben Do we have to rely on the upstream author to remove the graphics? Can't we replace them ourselves and get the ball rolling? There are plenty of free graphics available in the hicolor theme. -- "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#272264: Tomboy
Guido Trotter wrote: Hi! I'm mailing everyone interested in tomboy try to see if we can sort it out and upload it in the archive (even if it won't probably reach sarge, unless mono is sorted out too...). I've seen that Ben has around some 0.1.2 and 0.2.2 packages on mentors... No 0.3.1 though, Ben are you still maintaining it? Luca instead on http://luca.pca.it/debian/ has 0.3.1 and so do I on http://people.debian.org/~ultrotter/tomboy/ So... What should we do? I'm still willing to sponsor/comaintain the package, but since I'm a bit short in free time I'd rather comaintain starting from what I have (so I don't have to check the package, and we can build on top of it). ;) Let me know something, anyway! Guido - End forwarded message - I'm obviously willing to take responsibility for Tomboy. I can build on top of what you've currently got. That's not a problem. With so many people wanting this package, I can't believe it isn't available from Debian yet. I've been a bit reserved about maintaining it because I didn't want to step on any toes but here we are six months later and still no results. I was forced to make my own package because I need binaries for PPC. At this point my main concern is that Tomboy make its way into Sid. If you are looking for a commitment then here it is... I will take responsibility for this package. If this is acceptable then please contact me. If it's not, then please someone, step up and make this app part of Debian. -Eric -- "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#278128: ITP: tomboy -- Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix.
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:37 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:41:45PM -0700, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > * Package name: tomboy > > Version : 0.2.2 > > Upstream Author : beatniksoftware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/ > > * License : LGPL > > Description : Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux > > and Unix. > > Short description should not repeat the package name, certainly not as the > first word, and I don't think that "for Linux and Unix" is necessary, > considering this is the Debian package. Remember also to try and keep the > short description below about 60 characters, because anything beyond that > often gets chopped by frontends. Okay I'll keep this mind for any future ITP submittal. I pretty much copied the description straight from the website. I now realize that I'm essentially trying to sell the idea of this package being accepted by the community. > > > Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the > > ideas and information you deal with every day. > > That's not a bad description, but I (as a potential user) would like to know > what this thing is going to do for me beyond what (say) knotes does > (post-its for your desktop, in case you were wondering). > Well I use the stickynotes applet quite a bit and I assume this is similar to knotes (I prefer GNOME over KDE). Stickynotes is also a post-it type application. Tomboy is really a different beast. What would happen is I would get so many post-its on my desktop that it became hard to organize them. I would have phone numbers, or reminders, or even just mini how-to's on things I didn't do daily. What Tomboy brings to the table is a way to organize this info. It does this by creating links to other notes. I can write a quick 5 line summary of say how to correctly submit an ITP. But I can go a step further and highlight the word ITP and cause this to link to a new note where I list any ITPs I may have submitted. From the new note I could highlight a specific ITP and link to another new note containing specific info on that particular ITP. If you get a whole lot of notes like I do (over 50) then Tomboy has a search feature. I can enter ITP in the search field and it will show links to any note that has ITP in it. I still use stickynotes for quick reminders that will be dealt with in a reasonable amount of time but I use Tomboy to organize notes that will show some longevity. They actually serve two different purposes. With tomboy you can literally build a manual with hyperlinks to specific topics. This isn't really possible with something like stickynotes. There is actually quite a few people waiting to see this package available in Debian so I have confidence it will find it's way into unstable. The problem is finding someone to sponsor the package. There have been a few DD's who have supposedly committed to maintaining it but either it's a long process or they are busy with other things and just haven't found the time to commit to it. I have packages so obviously I'm in no hurry but it would be nice to see them officially in Debian mirrors. If you'd like to check out the application then my packages are available here for x86 and PPC deb ftp://corp.primenetwork.net/debian/ prime contrib deb-src ftp://corp.primenetwork.net/debian prime contrib Rob Bradford and Johan Svedberg have shown interest in this application both of which are Debian developers. I'm willing to do anything to help but admit I lack the knowledge of how to proceed. My understanding is that I need to sell the idea to someone who can make it happen. If anyone out there feels this package would be a valuable application for Debian to provide then please download my source package and let me know if the build looks okay and/or what I need to change. If you'd rather not sponsor some else's work, then please do what needs to be done to get this package into unstable. -- Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#282395: ITP: gib -- GIB (GNOME Iconset Builder) allows you to create icon themes for GNOME
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gib Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Tomislav Markovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://users.ossm.org.mk/~tome/gib/ * License : GPL Description : GIB (GNOME Iconset Builder) allows you to create icon themes for GNOME GIB (GNOME Iconset Builder) allows you to create icon themes for GNOME with ease. No more manual copy/resize/move/convert/rename actions. GIB automatically does this for you and organizes the icons in a GNOME compliant theme. It is suitable for rapidly generating icon themes from existing (non-theme) iconsets. Upcoming features include KDE icon theme support and one-click icon theme conversion from GNOME to KDE and vice-versa. A drag-n-drop feature is also under developemnt. GiB has lots of potential. I found out about it on kde-look.org where a few theme authors were discussing it. I enjoy hacking on themes so I took a look at it. This was my first experience with Mono/C# and although the project is in it's infancy, it's usable at this point. I plan on getting involved in the development of GiB and have already contributed some minor fixes to the code ( In need to get up to speed with Mono ). I'm hoping a Debian developer out there can see the value of an application such as GiB and will chose to maintain it. The original build was weak and only provided enough to get a binary in the source directory. I've rewritten the entire build to use GNU Autotools so that it was more robust and I could create Debian packages from it. At this point, the build is trivial. It relies on very few other packages and builds in a few seconds. My point it that this is a trivial package to maintain and wouldn't require an extensive amount of work. It relies on Mono which currently only runs on x86 and PPC (AFAIK). I have no problem maintaining this package however finding a sponsor is not an easy task and my main concern is seeing this in Debian. A current DD may just find it easier to maintain the package themselves rather than have to sponsor someone else's work. I have x86 and PPC packages built as well as the source if anyone wants to take a look at what they'd be getting involved in. deb ftp://corp.primenetwork.net/debian/ prime contrib deb-src ftp://corp.primenetwork.net/debian prime contrib My sources are are actually modified from that of the upstream authors. Mostly with respect to the build but I also had to make some changes in order to be able to install these files on the system. These would include things like modifying calls to glade so that the glade assemblies were embeded in the actual source and distributing the dot glade file would not be necessary. The icon path was also hard coded to the current working directory. I changed this to look in /usr/share/pixmaps. A Gnome desktop file was added for menu entry. Lastly I created a wrapper executable to be placed in /usr/bin/ and have the actual exe and assemblies installed to /usr/lib/gib -- this seems to be the Debian standard for mono apps (i.e. blam, tomboy, etc...). Once I get settled I'm going to get in contact with the author and try to resolve some of these issues upstream. All I can say is apt-get the package and take a look at it. If you've done any work with Gnome themes you'll immediately see the potential of GiB. Thanks, Eric Gaumer -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-ben2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Bug#278128: ITP: tomboy -- Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tomboy Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : beatniksoftware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/ * License : LGPL Description : Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-ben2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
