Bug 669491

Summary: A Request for Enhancement -- two new features.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bill Case <billlinux>
Component: gnoteAssignee: Rahul Sundaram <metherid>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: billlinux, debarshir, jspaleta, metherid, sanjay.ankur
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Description Bill Case 2011-01-13 19:26:34 UTC
Description of problem:
Would like to see gnome add two basic new features

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnote version 0.7.3

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Gnote.
1) fix the Linux cut and paste, by select and middle mouse button click, so that it works within gnote.

Comment:  In my view, any note taker like gnote should be designed to be quick and dirty.  No or few learning curves.  Most people who use the Linux version of gnote are used to the select and paste (middle mouse button click).  It is annoying and time wasting to have to use the Windows Ctrl-C  and Ctrl-v while working within gnote.  Ctrl-C  and Ctrl-v may be intuitive for M$ users, but the intuitive method for Linux users is to mouse select and paste,

2) Give Gnote a command that can be bound to a shortcut key that allows me to select a short phrase from text, within gnote or outside, and that replaces the note title with that selected phrase.

Comment:  I first saw this feature in a notes program I had way back in Dos Windows 3.1days.  This notes program was TSR.  It is a feature I haven't seen elsewhere since.  I found that sometimes the best note titles came from notes that one was writing or pasting into the note keeper.  A phrase lifted from the first or second paragraph of an article was very often more mnenomic than any title contrived by me at the time of writtng.  I often still select a phrase and insert it in the title -- but that is doubly annoying becasue the select and paste with the mouse isn't working in gnote and the additional step of deliting the old title is required.  Not terribley onerus, but still, gnote should be quick and simple in my view.

How it works is simple.  No changes to the current title creation process need be made.  One simply selects a phrase, pushes the short cut key combination, the selected phrase is stored to the clip board or a varible or whatever.  The current title for the note is removed by a script and the new selected phrase is inserted in its place.  Probably no more than an exchange of the contents of a variable.

Comment 1 Rahul Sundaram 2011-01-17 21:26:14 UTC
For future reference, if you are filing two different RFE's file them one by one so that they can tracked separately.  Lumping them together makes it difficult to handle.  Also, since you claimed in the mailing list to have filed them in upstream bugzilla, pass me on the bugzilla links so that I can poke upstream.

Comment 2 Bill Case 2011-01-18 16:31:05 UTC
Rahul Sndaram.  I considered these two requests as so minor that I thought only one RFE waould be necessary.  Will do two next time.

I can't find any of my previous links.  They have all seemed to have disappeared.  I know I submitted this suggestions over two years ago on a Tomboy or gnote Gnome wikipage.  I was sure I had posted them as both RedHat and Gnome Bugzillas either under TomBoy or Gnote.  The Gnome Bugzilla has completely changed from what I remember.  I posted this with the list of things I found annoying with Fedora 12 or 13 -- I definetly remember getting two supporting responses.  I have googled under Gnote and Tomboy.  I get a couple of other Gnote /Tomboy comments/bugs I have submitted in the past.  So who knows ??.

Sorry can't give you a link.  I have some mail list archives of my own that I will search through if you really think it is an important point.

Comment 3 Rahul Sundaram 2011-01-18 18:51:26 UTC
Yes, filing them separately is useful if one issue gets resolved and other doesn't for instance. Pretty sure nothing of this sort was filed against gnote in Red Hat bugzilla or otherwise I would have known about it since I am the maintainer in Fedora from the start.  I don't see anything in GNOME bugzilla either. Would you mind filing it upstream directly and separately and pass on the links here?

Comment 4 Bill Case 2011-01-19 12:32:43 UTC
Have filed with Gnome

1)  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639940

Bug 639940 - Copy and Paste using mouse middle button. (edit)
Bill Case [reporter] 2011-01-19 12:22:22 UTC


2) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639938
Bug 639938 - Command for instering titles. (edit
Bill Case [reporter] 2011-01-19 12:12:49 UTC

Found one of the older bug reports:

Bug 538503   Tomboy   Bill Case [reporter] 2008-06-15 20:17:46 UTC

Comment 5 Rahul Sundaram 2011-01-19 15:43:51 UTC
Alright.  Thank you.  I will keep an eye on those and if patches are available, cherry pick and push updates if feasible.

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