On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:49:03 -0500
"Seth Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Waah!  But I want a talented programmer to write a mindmapping GUI
> for Leo!
> 
> (I'm convinced that that interface would be the key to moving towards
> something more like an operating system)
> 
> But the likes of me will long pine away, wither away with lost
> hope . . . :-)

I used FreeMind before I started using leo, and I really don't think
the 'mindmap' is significantly different to leo's tree with clones.
Neither one is a truly cyclic graph of the kind you need for
generalized networks and RDF type applications.  Have a look at
http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html which is a free Concept Map tool.
I think that mindmaps are a sort of informal light weight version of
Concept Maps, which are a more formal / full system of knowledge
mapping.  And they involved cyclic graphs.

I might try and make a graph style editor for nodes in leo-qt.  I glued
a tk-graph editor on to leo-tk, but it wasn't very pretty (the
graphed.py plugin).  I made a simple graph editor on a GTK canvas and
it really wasn't hard, so I don't suppose it will be hard in qt either.

Having said all that, you say "...key to moving towards
something more like an operating system", and not knowing what you mean
by that, it may be you have some other aspect of mindmaps in mind.  To
me leo seems much closer to being an "operating system" than FreeMind
didn, but (a) I don't like Java, and (b) I haven't looked at freemind
for a few years, so that may be why.

Cheers -Terry

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