---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Olivier Bilodeau <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [Tomdroid-dev] Tomboy 0.1.0 preview To: pjv <[email protected]>
Thanks for trying out the app! I've included some replies below. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, pjv <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Olivier, > > I looked at your Tomdroid apk on my ADP1 device after copying over all > (that's a lot ;-)) of my gnome Tomboy 0.10.2 notes. > > I have many big remarks that should give you enough feedback for a > while: > - Not doing the Android lifecycle mgmt. is quite a big flaw for me. > Porting really doesn't suffice. To become really workable and usable you > will need to follow the Android way. There's really no excuse for this. > It just means your app will go crashing a whole lot if used together > with other apps (or in any real situation). yes, aware of that, its *definitely* going to be in the next release. By the way, I didn't even port, its more a compatible reimplementation. I have not looked at how they did to avoid licensing issues (I'm GPLv3 and tomboy is LGPL with APL v2 parts). > > - For the About box in your app I invite you to use OI About from > http://www.openintents.org instead. This gives you something very > similar to the gtk about box and above all something shared between > apps. Won't this require users to have oi about installed? > > - Loading the notes list (the initial screen) takes a bit of time, > probably due to the amount of notes that need to be read. You could > start displaying a note's title as soon as it is loaded. See the Shelves > example. The same goes for loading long notes in the notes view. Yes, I realized that I screwed up with the way I use threads, it'll get that fixed for next release. > > - The notes list window deviates a little bit from the Android standard > in terms of gui. The height of the items is variable (a single line is > too small for my fingers). Only the text on a line is clickable. I used a listActivity and put the font bigger because it was too small. I thought that doing so would have the whole line clickable.. I'll look into this also. > > - In a note the linkify differs from the linkify in Tomboy. For instance > a link containing a " &"("<space><ampersand>") was not entirely blue and > underlined (broken up in 2 links except for the " &" part). Is the > recognition of note titles in a note body different than in Tomboy? The > new second link still appeared to point to a valid title. But that title > was also not entirely blue and contained an "&". Yes the "linkification" logic is different, I expect problems. Plase open a bug and attach a sample note and maybe a screenshot, that would help a lot. > > - Pressing menu button goes back when viewing a note. I was expecting > options to edit a note there, or even better I was expecting to edit > right away (as in the Notepad sample). Editing is planned but not there yet. I will try to branch and change the TextView to an EditView and see how that goes. > > - Notebook templates from Tomboy are treated as notes. open bug and describe expected behavior please > > - It seems you also use the linkify functionality of Android. It would > be welcome if that would differ from the Tomboy wiki links in color. For > instance dates are wrongly recognised as telephone numbers (that's and > Android issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1708). > I'll check what I can do in that regard for the wiki links. But the Linkify class is not very flexible.. > > You can also remove the disclaimer warning in the > app I think. Once I am following android's app lifecycle, I will get rid of the message. Thanks for all the great feedback!! Keep it coming! -- Olivier Bilodeau <[email protected]> -- Olivier Bilodeau <[email protected]>
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