[Zim-wiki] How to send text input to Zim editor from outside? (Linux)

2015-02-10 Thread Yan King Yin, 甄景贤
Hello Zim team, I'm a newbie to Zim. I want to be able to type text via an external program into Zim's editor. I'm using Linux, so for example using D-bus interface in Python would be nice. The context: I'm using my home-brew Chinese text input tool which works only in the browser, so I have

Re: [Zim-wiki] How to send text input to Zim editor from outside? (Linux)

2015-02-10 Thread hansbkk
Just in case it's slipped anyone's mind, Zim's wiki pages are just plain text files, so any text tools, scripts etc can be be used to automate updating/creating/editing them. No need to work within the program's UI at all. Just when the human user wants to do so, refresh the index and Bob's your

Re: [Zim-wiki] How to send text input to Zim editor from outside? (Linux)

2015-02-10 Thread Sylvain Viart
Hi, Is it not what this zim plugin do? Name Quick Note Description This plugin adds a dialog to quickly drop some text or clipboard content into a zim page. Another way is to do a custom tools, reread the txt buffer.

Re: [Zim-wiki] Porting Zim to Gtk3 -- Call for packagers / testers

2015-02-10 Thread Tobias Haupenthal
Hello Jaap, thank you for your approach to get zim to gtk 3. I've just downloaded the new version and soon got into trouble to start it. It seem that currently always the parameter --standalone will be necessary: python zim.py --standalone Is there a special bug list for reporting one of these

Re: [Zim-wiki] Porting Zim to Gtk3 -- Call for packagers / testers

2015-02-10 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Hi Tobias, No - I'm not yet open for bug reports in the gtk3 branch. Main purpose is now to find out if we can bring it to all platforms, not yet to debug it. E.g. for the issue you mention, this part of the code will be gone in the final version. As for python 3. I know this will need to happen