Re: [Zim-wiki] theme settings ignored in Zim 0.74.2 for Windows

2021-11-16 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Yes I had … "[settings]" in my settings.ini file. I'm glad I copied and pasted a quote from you EXACTLY. "[Settings]" is case sensitive! Thanks for the helpful reply. I still can't get my downloaded theme to work, but "dark" is working with the Default theme, so I consider my problem resolved

[Zim-wiki] theme settings ignored in Zim 0.74.2 for Windows

2021-11-16 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Has anyone got their GTK 3 theme working right in Zim 0.74.2 for Windows? Previously in 0.73 I had set « gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1 » in "C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop Wiki\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini", and it worked for me. Zim used a dark theme. Now this setting is ignored in 0.74.2. I

[Zim-wiki] Use Markor on Android to edit Zim pages (was: Zim VS Android)

2021-10-12 Thread Brendan Kidwell
A friend told me today that Markor has support for the Zim text format now since last December. At a bare minimum, it seems that you can use Markor on Android to view, search, and edit pages in your Zim notebooks. I would suggest using Syncthing to sync notebooks between your Android computer

[Zim-wiki] Zim Desktop Wiki IRC chat room moved from Freenode to Libera Chat

2021-06-01 Thread Brendan Kidwell
r web browser at https://web.libera.chat/#zim-wiki .)"? -- Or edit as you see fit. Thanks. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki

Re: [Zim-wiki] WIndows installer for zim 0.73.1

2020-07-01 Thread Brendan Kidwell
(sn...@glump.net is me, Brendan Kidwell. I really need to fix my Fastmail config.) On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, at 01:27, sn...@glump.net wrote: > Thank you Fabian and Jaap! I'll make a note on my web site that the old > Windows installer project is ended and superseded, with a link to the Z

[Zim-wiki] hint for future Zim package maintainer for Windows: Pyinstaller bug #4125 is resolved; was blocking us

2019-11-25 Thread Brendan Kidwell
A while ago I stepped down as Windows package maintainer for Zim. ( https://zim.glump.net/misc/brendan-kidwell-stepping-down-as-zim-windows-package-maintainer/ ) As I stated in that mailing list post, I was blocked by https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/4125 , among other things

[Zim-wiki] I'm stepping down as Windows package maintainer. Manual install instructions included here!

2019-07-16 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Hi all, I had another go at updating my Windows package building workflow, for Zim 0.70+ using Python 3 and GTK 3. It does not go well. The only good way I could come up with to install GTK 3 for Python 3 in Windows is using the MSYS2 system, and this much does work -- see below!

[Zim-wiki] status of Zim Desktop Wiki for Windows -- I'm taking it a break right now, but someone else can take over

2019-01-18 Thread Brendan Kidwell
in the Git repository. GPG-sign your installer executables and I'd be happy to put them on my site. (Or you can take over Windows installer hosting.) If no one else comes up with a nice solution for packaging Zim 0.70 for Windows, I'll probably get something working by March or April. Brend

Re: [Zim-wiki] Flatpak of Zim 'next' is now available

2018-07-10 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Thanks. I might give it a try later. This will help a lot with future testing. Brendan Kidwell On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, at 07:49, Robin Lee wrote: > Hi, all > > A good feature of Flatpak is easy to multiple versions of a program. > > To let people easy to test the python3 and Gtk3

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.68 for Windows released

2018-04-12 Thread Brendan Kidwell
. It may take me a while to get this done. I invite any interested parties to contribute in any way, from helping with the build process all the way up to taking ownership of zim.glump.net. :^) Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim building problems

2017-08-28 Thread Brendan Kidwell
it? Having periods in the name SHOULDN'T be a problem, but you never know with old broken systems like GTK2. I can't be sure from your debug log, so I'm just checking: Did you run windows/build_win32.py with the project root folder being the current working folder? Did that script display any error

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.67 released

2017-07-10 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Published. Brendan Kidwell On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 12:03, Brendan Kidwell wrote: > I will update the Windows build at https://zim.glump.net/windows/ in the next > day or two. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zi

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.67 released

2017-07-10 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I will update the Windows build at https://zim.glump.net/windows/ in the next day or two. Brendan Kidwell On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 09:08, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > After 2 release candidates I decided to release the 0.67 version today. Hope > it will perform better than the 0.66 rele

Re: [Zim-wiki] One way round the clipboard issue in 0.66 in Windows

2017-05-22 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Thanks for sharing that, Bruce. It may be very helpful for many users while we sort out the problems with the Windows build. On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 10:40, Bruce Ax(tens) wrote: > So I wrote a Custom Tool, using 8th . > This is the Custom Tool definition: >> [Desktop

[Zim-wiki] New web site for Windows installer; found new energy to work on Windows installer

2017-05-16 Thread Brendan Kidwell
from the source code. Thanks for your patience. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Zim-wiki] New web site for Windows installer; found new energy to work on Windows installer

2017-05-16 Thread Brendan Kidwell
stick with the 0.65 installer packages or install a complete Python and PyGTK environment on your system and run Zim from the source code. Thanks for your patience. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim Desktop Wiki 0.66 for Windows is ready to download

2017-05-11 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Thank you for looking into this and sharing your Microsoft conversation here. As far as I can tell, you are looking at the process where Windows authenticates the source of an executable. This is not relevant to my process. Getting a proper certificate to sign software so that Windows recognizes

[Zim-wiki] Zim Desktop Wiki 0.66 for Windows is ready to download

2017-05-07 Thread Brendan Kidwell
a fresh Windows 7 64-bit virtual machine, and they should work on any 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows that is still supported by Microsoft. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Zim-wiki] ONCE MORE: Windows 7 Professional, 64 Bit: Copy via [Ctrl+c] from Zim not reliable

2017-04-27 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Murat, thank you for that workaround. I was not aware that Copy As existed because it's missing from the Edit menu. On Wed, Apr 26, 2017, at 05:29, Murat Güven wrote: > just my 2 cents on this topic. May be it helps solving the issue. > > Within my plugin "Convert2tags2mail" I provide a method

Re: [Zim-wiki] can't get windows version to start

2017-04-25 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Look in the folder "%TEMP%" for a file "zim.log" and see if it says anything interesting. Next, try running this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Zim Desktop Wiki\zim.exe" --standalone --debug (Fix the path to zim.exe if it is not correct.) Whether that opens a window or not, again go look

Re: [Zim-wiki] ONCE MORE: Windows 7 Professional, 64 Bit: Copy via [Ctrl+c] from Zim not reliable

2017-04-24 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Sorry, I'm not creating a ticket for this. I'm confused by the guidance about whether to use Github Issue Tracker for new tickets or to use Launchpad. And I don't see an open ticket for this issue. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017, at 18:35, Brendan Kidwell wrote: > I see from my debug log f

Re: [Zim-wiki] plans for python3? Github?

2017-03-22 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Added my 'me too' to the Launchpad ticket about migrating to Git format -- in the 'persons affected' field. My personal reasons probably match something someone else already said. On Mon, Mar 20, 2017, at 17:30, Dimitrij Lisov wrote: > There's already a similar request regarding moving to

Re: [Zim-wiki] Bug with inline arithmetic feature?

2016-09-28 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Smilie, Can you try your calculation with "." instead of "," as the fraction separator in your arithmetic expression? If it works when you change the expression, then perhaps 1) your desktop is configured wrong for that localization parameter or 2) Zim is failing to use your

Re: [Zim-wiki] Lets build a zim android app together!

2016-02-08 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I couldn't get it to work without randomly inserting empty paragraphs after a table on my sandbox DokuWiki page, but I'm sure the source code for CKGEdit is worth looking into for ideas. Brendan Kidwell On Sun, Feb 7, 2016, at 15:13, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > The idea is to build on

Re: [Zim-wiki] Links and markup in table doesn't work

2016-01-21 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Unfortunately for you, I think this is working as designed. Zim's current table implementation is designed as a 2D array of PLAIN-TEXT cells. The data is fed into a GTK table-rendering widget that doesn't know anything about wiki syntax. For now you'll just have to do your best with plain text.

Re: [Zim-wiki] Links and markup in table doesn't work

2016-01-21 Thread Brendan Kidwell
If you associate .txt files with Zim, in Windows Explorer, then you can make hyperlinks in your spreadsheet attachments which open Zim pages. On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 14:14, Brendan Kidwell wrote: > Unfortunately for you, I think this is working as designed. Zim's > current table implemen

Re: [Zim-wiki] helping out with Windows builds

2016-01-18 Thread Brendan Kidwell
As Jaap said in an earlier message on this thread, I would gladly welcome help if you can provide it. Are you still interested, René? Have you done any work like this before? Either way, you might possibly come up with a very different process from me. I'd be happy to walk you through how my

[Zim-wiki] Where is Zim 0.65 for Windows? It'll be a few more weeks probably.

2015-11-28 Thread Brendan Kidwell
t it done by the end > of December. To be notified of the new Windows release, to inquire about its > status, or to inquire about helping out with or taking over the public > Windows release, please Join the mailing list. Brendan Kidwell ___ M

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.64 released

2015-11-01 Thread Brendan Kidwell
be dead simple.) Feel free to bug me if two weeks have gone by and I haven't done the Windows release yet. (I'll do 0.65 with the needed bug fix mentioned in a separate thread and skip 0.64.) Brendan Kidwell On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, at 03:36, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > Dear all, > > Yesterday

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim presentation

2015-09-25 Thread Brendan Kidwell
; > Also would want the website organized to go to such a guide quickly. > Does anyone have experience with these "roll down" format pages that I > see nowadays on many long-read pages ? Regards, Jaap > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Brendan Kidwell > <bren.

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim presentation

2015-09-25 Thread Brendan Kidwell
And if it's not readable and navigable with javascript and CSS, you have failed. On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, at 14:11, Mike Morris wrote: > To summarize, for me "content is king", which I think is objectively > defensible. As for the long running or not, I prefer not, but that's > clearly just a

Re: [Zim-wiki] Source View plugin locks up page view frame on Linux Mint 17.1 XFCE

2015-09-24 Thread Brendan Kidwell
d_with_viewport() instead window.add(widget) >> >> Have I found a bug, or is there something I can do to fix this? >> >> The example above is the simplest procedure for me to reproduce the >> problem. In fact it happens just the same in a full notebook if I paste &g

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim presentation

2015-09-23 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Thanks for sharing, Jaap. I think I mentioned this when I did a presentation a couple of years ago, but I didn't make a point of saying "you should add it to the Zim web site", but I'm saying that now. http://www.glump.net/howto/desktop/getting-work-done-in-zim > On 11 December 2013 I gave a

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.63 for Windows released

2015-07-06 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I forgot to mention: the Source View / Insert Code Block plugin should work now. It was added in 0.61 or 0.62 but my Windows builds were missing a library. The new Table plugin works. And presumably the Fossil SCM plugin works too. On Mon, Jul 6, 2015, at 02:33, Brendan Kidwell wrote: Zim

Re: [Zim-wiki] Windows 8.1 and screen of choice

2015-06-10 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Navigate to where the notebook files are stored. Make a shortcut (in your Start Menu, on your Taskbar, wherever) to the 'notebook.zim' file for that notebook. Hope that helps. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015, at 16:08, Didier Bretin wrote: Hello, I have several notebooks on my laptop and I would like

Re: [Zim-wiki] Windows 8.1 and screen of choice

2015-06-10 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Sounds like the taskbar really isn't very user-friendly! Try this: 1. Create a batch file in the Notebook's folder called [name of notebook].cmd. 2. In the batch file just put one command: start notebook.zim. 3. Make a shortcut to [name of notebook].cmd on your taskbar. You'll get one or two

Re: [Zim-wiki] Port to Qt

2015-03-20 Thread Brendan Kidwell
. It's not just a matter of tweaking the UI to make it small-screen friendly, even if you have a GUI toolkit that supports the target. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe

Re: [Zim-wiki] Windows 7 Professional, 64 Bit: Copy via [Ctrl+c] from Zim not reliable

2015-02-23 Thread Brendan Kidwell
software (often VirtualBox control panel), if you have the same problem I have. Jaap mentioned in another thread that this year (2015) we will probably port Zim to GTK 3 and abandon GTK 2; hopefully that will resolve issues like this. Brendan Kidwell On Sat, Feb 21, 2015, at 22:05, Udo Weik wrote

Re: [Zim-wiki] Migration to github

2014-11-03 Thread Brendan Kidwell
, its author refuses to build in support for rename detection, and that's a deal-breaker.) Brendan Kidwell On Mon, Nov 3, 2014, at 05:55, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: Versalis, Not sure if migration will help much. I like the set of features offered by launchpad, only thing that is missing

Re: [Zim-wiki] new zim user : hello ant a little question

2014-10-23 Thread Brendan Kidwell
a lot of talk about it.) Brendan Kidwell On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, at 05:53, ericgarcia-fr wrote: I just found out Zim ( and notes softwares). I have a littlequestion : How do I align text to left, center, right ...? It should be obvious but I have not found how. P.S. sorry for this very basic

Re: [Zim-wiki] How to install gtksourceview2 on Windows

2014-10-23 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I'll keep this in mind next time I get a chance to work on it. My name is Brendan. On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, at 14:03, Erwin W wrote: Hi Brendan, In the meantime I found a workaround to get the Source View plugin up and running on Windows. I've updated the Wiki page with installation

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.62 for Windows released again

2014-10-14 Thread Brendan Kidwell
it to look for \t\tplugins = set( instead. [2]https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/1380907 Brendan Kidwell On Fri, Oct 10, 2014, at 15:37, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: Hi Brendan, I made some changes in revisions 739 that should fix this. Made it such that setup.py takes care of it when you run

Re: [Zim-wiki] Windows Spell Check

2014-10-14 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I'll keep you in mind when the time comes, Stephen. Thanks. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014, at 16:14, Stephen Faulkenberry wrote: If I can be of help to you (Brendan) for Windows testing, let me know. (if this message was repeated, I'm sorry. Getting used to how these mailing lists work.) -Stephen

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.62 for Windows released

2014-10-08 Thread Brendan Kidwell
It's going to take me some time to wrap my head around all those names and strings and figure out where these paths are supposed to be, and whether #2 is possible. I've got no more time to think about this until at least the weekend, if not next week. All my code is up-to-date in the main

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.62 for Windows released

2014-10-07 Thread Brendan Kidwell
, Brendan Kidwell [1]sn...@glump.net wrote: I've updated the release page to reflect the fact that it doesn't work. It doesn't work for me on my build VM either; I didn't test everything before I published it. Jaap: have requirements changed? It will be a few days before I can look

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.62 for Windows released

2014-10-06 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I've updated the release page to reflect the fact that it doesn't work. It doesn't work for me on my build VM either; I didn't test everything before I published it. Jaap: have requirements changed? It will be a few days before I can look into this. On Mon, Oct 6, 2014, at 05:35, Marco Cevoli

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.62 for Windows released

2014-10-05 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Zim for Windows home: http://www.glump.net/software/zim-windows -- Desktop Installer -- http://www.glump.net/files/release/zim-windows/Zim-setup-0.62_2014-10-05.exe -- Portable Installer -- http://www.glump.net/files/release/zim-windows/ZimDesktopWikiPortable_0.62.paf.exe -- Verify --

Re: [Zim-wiki] Shrink images

2014-08-20 Thread Brendan Kidwell
(This is Brendan Kidwell sn...@glump.net writing. My mail app confused me with the header options when replying.) On Wed, Aug 20, 2014, at 15:17, sn...@glump.net wrote: If you right-click on the image and select Properties, you can change the rendering size

Re: [Zim-wiki] EightFiveZero Template Updated

2014-08-19 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Nice work! Thanks for sharing. I've added it to the Zim Wiki https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Build-a-Responsive-Web-Site . On Mon, Aug 11, 2014, at 11:01, John Marks wrote: Hey folks, I've taken a preliminary stab at updating my EightFiveZero template (a modified version of

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.61 for Windows released

2014-08-07 Thread Brendan Kidwell
, or Trisquel GNU/Linux. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014, at 07:43, Hilmar von Fintel wrote: Just to confirm that Zim 0.61 no longer runs under Win XP on my computer. (Brendan had previously stated he would no longer compile for Win XP.) Hilmar On 06/08/14 00:05, Brendan Kidwell wrote: Zim for Windows

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.61 for Windows released

2014-08-05 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Zim for Windows home: http://www.glump.net/software/zim-windows -- Desktop Installer -- http://www.glump.net/files/release/zim-windows/Zim-setup-0.61_2014-08-05.exe -- Portable Installer -- http://www.glump.net/files/release/zim-windows/ZimDesktopWikiPortable_0.61.paf.exe -- Verify --

Re: [Zim-wiki] Searchable html export, any activities?

2014-05-22 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I have never tried anything like this, but it may be possible to achieve this without a lot of programming. Zim offers export to ReStructuredText format, which is supported by the Sphinx toolchain. http://sphinx-doc.org/ I'm pretty sure that Sphinx has built-in support to create HTML +

Re: [Zim-wiki] way slow on Ubuntu

2014-04-16 Thread Brendan Kidwell
, is your home folder (your user profile folder) stored on local storage, or NFS, or something more exotic? Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

[Zim-wiki] Problem starting Zim with a Shared notebook

2014-04-03 Thread Brendan Kidwell
End If Next Shell.Run(Trim(ArgsStr)) END Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim on-a-stick

2014-03-29 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014, at 21:44, Syv Ritch wrote: I see that the desktop version is 21mb and the portable 12mb. What's the difference? One is packaged by NSIS alone (desktop) and the other by PortableApps.com's installer builder which uses NSIS. I think it applies some extra magical

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim on-a-stick

2014-03-28 Thread Brendan Kidwell
... and you should be to start each version of Zim and navigate to Open a notebook wherever it may be stored. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014, at 18:46, Brendan Kidwell wrote: Thanks for your question Syv. I think what you want to do is this: * Install the Portable version of Zim Desktop Wiki

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim on-a-stick

2014-03-28 Thread Brendan Kidwell
/Linux machines without a lot of fiddling. Navigate to where 'zim.py' is and run it. Brendan Kidwell On Thu, Mar 27, 2014, at 7:50, Syv Ritch wrote: Hi, I use 0.60 (from 0.5) on xubuntu for the last couple of years. Is there a way of installing zim on a stick (including the notebooks

Re: [Zim-wiki] uncheck all check box? SOLVED

2014-01-15 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Thanks for sharing! That's something I would try right away if I wanted to do that action, but it might not be obvious to everyone. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Sylvain Viart launch...@ledragon.netwrote: Hi, Zim has a simply nice embedded check-box. Is there a way to uncheck all

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multiple Locations

2014-01-09 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I have several hundred pages (in ~3 notebooks) of Zim data that was in Dropbox for a long time. Two weeks ago I switch to a private ownCloud instance of mine (hosted on prgmr.com). My thoughts: * Use the ownCloud desktop sync tool (free for desktop OSes; pay $1 I think for Android and OS X

[Zim-wiki] Zim Wiki community wiki

2013-10-31 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Thanks for coming up with an alternative since DokuWiki broke, Jaap. Contributing to a documentation project on GitHub might be a little tricky for those who are used to a system like DokuWiki, but it should work just fine for us who are interested in Zim, I hope. On the other hand, it may be

Re: [Zim-wiki] ALT+NUMPAD not working on WinXP

2013-10-27 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Zim is a Python application that depends completely on the GTK+ framework for interacting with the display and input devices, as well as a few other things. I don't think Zim does anything special with GTK+'s keyboard input functions, so the problem may be in GTK+ on Windows, not with Zim itself.

Re: [Zim-wiki] ALT+NUMPAD not working on WinXP

2013-10-27 Thread Brendan Kidwell
. For example, if I type \Yacute , it gets converted by Zim to Ý. This works on all Zim-suported platforms. Again, we'll see if we can get the host OS's ALT+nnn method to work too in a future release. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Brendan Kidwell sn...@glump.net wrote: Zim is a Python

Re: [Zim-wiki] ALT+NUMPAD not working on WinXP

2013-10-27 Thread Brendan Kidwell
... I forgot to mention you need to have the Insert Symbol plugin turned on for Zim's method to work. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Brendan Kidwell sn...@glump.net wrote: Also, don't forget that Zim has its own typing shortcut for non-keyboard characters. The manual says you can type

[Zim-wiki] Free presentation in Boston, 11 Dec: Learn Zim: The Free Replacement for Evernote and Solution to Chaos in Your Life

2013-10-27 Thread Brendan Kidwell
If you are in the USA anywhere near Boston in December, you are invited to see a free presentation by me at a local computer club about how to use Zim to get work done. Also, I will be recording it and will hopefully be able to produce a decent video to share online by January or so. The

[Zim-wiki] Is the public Dokuwiki instance for Zim broken?

2013-09-04 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I wanted to copy my recipe for inserting tables using GraphViz ( http://zim-wiki.org/wiki/doku.php?id=create_tables_using_graphviz ) to a new page and explain how to do it with LaTeX (Insert Equation). I tried to login with my saved login in my password file and I got a blank response. I tried

[Zim-wiki] I registered an IRC channel on FreeNode for Zim

2013-08-19 Thread Brendan Kidwell
, in addition to myself? If you don't know what all this is, read the docs ( https://www.freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml ), log on to FreeNode, and join the channel #zim-wiki. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim

Re: [Zim-wiki] I finally found an easy solution to sync my zim notebook across computers

2013-08-19 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Keep an eye on https://prism-break.org/ for answers to questions like this for networking and storage needs. The site lists some FOSS-only live/online file sync tools; it looks like they all require a central coordination server (one that you control or one that you rent capacity on), or

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.60 released

2013-05-07 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Hopefully I will update the Windows version updated by Thursday or Friday. Look for an announcement here on the mailing list. On Tuesday, May 7, 2013, Didier BRETIN wrote: Hello, Do you know if the windows version will be update soon ? If you don't know, can I use 0.59 under windows to edit

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.60 for Windows released

2013-05-07 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Zim for Windows home: http://www.glump.net/software/zim-windows -- Desktop Installer -- http://www.glump.net/files/release/zim-windows/Zim-setup-0.60_2013-05-07.exe -- Portable Installer -- http://www.glump.net/files/release/zim-windows/ZimDesktopWikiPortable_0.60.paf.exe -- Verify --

Re: [Zim-wiki] Encrypted Zim wiki

2013-03-15 Thread Brendan Kidwell
at risk. As much as possible we should leave the implementation to security-obsessed experts. For the quickest solution, I think TrueCrypt is the easiest to setup and works the same on all supported platforms. It only introduces one extra step in daily use before you open a notebook. Brendan Kidwell

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.57 for Windows released

2012-11-09 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Good news everyone! I downloaded lp:zim rev 600 (release 0.57) and ran my build process on a freshly thawed Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, and everything worked just fine. I didn't do extensive testing, but everything built and I was able to launch the app and use the installers. - Brendan

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.57 released!

2012-11-01 Thread Brendan Kidwell
If you mean the Windows installer, I'll have that done by Wednesday or so. Sorry it hasn't been a high priority for me. You're welcome to download the source follow the instructions in windows/README-BUILD-win32.txt if you want to give it a shot. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Svenn Are Bjerkem

Re: [Zim-wiki] Have you seen OpenZIM?

2012-04-03 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:53, Brendan Kidwell sn...@glump.net wrote: I noticed the name conflict a year or two ago. The 'openZIM' project's web site indicates it was created in 2009. I don't see how they could have missed

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.56 for Windows released

2012-04-03 Thread Brendan Kidwell
This release SHOULD fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/923679 Zim 0.54 doesn't work on Windows XP. The problem was that Py2exe was not including required msvcr90.dll in the build output. My fix to the build script and build instructions are attached to this ticket and a merge request was

Re: [Zim-wiki] Installing on Windows: This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect

2012-03-30 Thread Brendan Kidwell
BLOODY REPLY-ALL NON-DEFAULT issue in Gmail... Trying again to all. Thanks for the heads up. Sorry I've been quiet. Obviously at this point, Zim 0.55 isn't going to happen. Last week I prepared a pristine Windows XP SP 3 VM with pesky WGA removed, and I'm going to fork that VM and use one

Re: [Zim-wiki] 0.55 update for Windows binaries?

2012-03-14 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I'm the Windows build guy. Yes I've been following the list and I was aware of the release. I'll try to get it done this weekend. And there's nothing wrong with some gentle prodding. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:44 AM, hans...@gmail.com wrote: When I have time I'll test running Zim from source

[Zim-wiki] Support contact method for Zim?

2012-02-20 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I got a support query personally addressed to me (and I responded politely). I'm not sure how it is that I looked like the best place to ask, but I did notice that the zim-wiki.org doesn't address this very well. The Bugs page tells you where to file a bug but not where to ask non-bug questions.

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim .54 on Windows Vista Doesn't Start

2012-01-29 Thread Brendan Kidwell
All, it's going to take me another few days to track down this problem. I suspect it's a missing DLL -- not sure if it's a system library you ought to have, or a missing inclusion from the GTK distribution into Zim. I haven't had a chance to look into it yet. Thanks for your patience. On Fri,

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.54 packages for Windows released

2012-01-16 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Brendan Kidwell sn...@glump.net wrote: P.S. I had a look at the problem of including gtkspell in the Zim for Windows packages. It doesn't look good right now. The only publicly available Windows build of PyGTKSpell that I could find was on a wiki in the GRAMPS

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.54 packages for Windows released

2012-01-15 Thread Brendan Kidwell
/node/29350 I've made a bunch of minor changes to the ./windows folder of the Zim source, and those changes are available at lp:~bkidwell/zim/pyzim-win-installer . (Merge request already sent to Jaap.) Brendan Kidwell P.S. I had a look at the problem of including gtkspell in the Zim for Windows

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.54 -- building for Windows?

2011-12-23 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote: Just put a new release on the website - will probably be available in PPA in a few hours. Jaap, I'm a little confused about which revision in the source repository I should be building against for the 0.54

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.54 -- building for Windows?

2011-12-23 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Thanks. Hopefully I'll get a Windows build of 0.54 out by 2 Jan or so. On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote: The 0.50 on Launchpad is a bug in their auto-detect - - not sure why it picked that up. Rev465 should be tagged as 0.54.

Re: [Zim-wiki] mime type of zim notes

2011-12-05 Thread Brendan Kidwell
My personal opinion is that this would be a good change, for the reasons currently on the table. I would use the file extension .zimpage or .zimnote. Also, what happens if you shell-launch a Zim page file from the desktop file manager or search tool using the executable zim? Does it explore up

Re: [Zim-wiki] Links

2011-11-15 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I see the same effect with Linux Mint and Zim 0.53. When in non-editable mode, left-clicking on local links and URLs both have no effect. I'm pretty sure this isn't intentional; please open a bug at http://bugs.launchpad.net/zim . On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alan Cummings acummi...@gmx.com

Re: [Zim-wiki] wiki syntax - Markup is not working

2011-10-18 Thread Brendan Kidwell
. It's valuable to know where newbies are having difficulty about something that's obvious to us old timers, and it may inform future UI and/or architecture decisions. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki

Re: [Zim-wiki] Google Docs as Zim backend?

2011-10-13 Thread Brendan Kidwell
-case for Google Docs? All that having been said, if you have the skillz, by all means mock something up or write up a spec and lets explore it. Brendan Kidwell On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Roberto Suarez Soto talkingxo...@gmail.com wrote: just wondering: has anyone thought about using

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.53 for Windows available now

2011-09-21 Thread Brendan Kidwell
some users. Thanks for pointing that out. I'd swapped the sizes of the two installers in the wiki page, by mistake. Fixed it. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

[Zim-wiki] Zim 0.53 for Windows available now

2011-09-20 Thread Brendan Kidwell
more like Freshmeat's workflow. Oh well. I'll be starting that process this week and if it ever goes anywhere I'll let you all know. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe

Re: [Zim-wiki] ZIm and handling of PLAIN TEXT FILES

2011-09-19 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Anthony Thyssen a.thys...@griffith.edu.auwrote: I have looked at a lot of different 'text note browsers'. That is a way of storing simple notes that can be brought up on screen for making notes, cuting an pasting templates (code and so on), and storing those

[Zim-wiki] building Zim version 0.53 release

2011-09-19 Thread Brendan Kidwell
on the web site doesn't have the ./windows folder in it. Can you tell me exactly which revision number in the repository to pull from? (Or am I doing something wrong?) Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki

Re: [Zim-wiki] Can not import 'xdg.Mime' - falling back to 'mimetypes'

2011-09-14 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Ramiro Magno ramiro.ma...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not sure if this is really a problem/bug. I used to have this warning just after launching zim from the command line: WARNING: Can not import 'xdg.Mime' - falling back to 'mimetypes' googling lead me to this:

[Zim-wiki] Windows 0.53 PRERELEASE -- second attempt

2011-09-09 Thread Brendan Kidwell
I tried this earlier this week and posted the results without having tested my build on a clean machine. Thanks Marco for the early failure report. I'm not sure why it failed, but I started again tonight with two CLEAN Windows XP virtual machines tonight (instead of Windows 2008). I followed my

Re: [Zim-wiki] Windows 0.53 PRERELEASE -- second attempt

2011-09-09 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Colin Henderson colinr.hender...@gmail.com wrote: Brendan .. I just installed .. showed as version 0.52.9 btw - works perfectly and seems faster. Using Windows 7 Professional on Thinkpad T400s Thanks for the good work on Zim all .. once in a while I go off

Re: [Zim-wiki] policy question relating to PortableApps.com Zim package -- absolute paths stored in notebooks.list

2011-09-07 Thread Brendan Kidwell
...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Brendan Kidwell sn...@glump.net wrote: So my question is this: How hard would it be to make Zim write paths in notebooks.list RELATIVE to $HOME instead of absolute? If it's doable, should we do it? Should I open a Bug for it? Sounds doable - I'll

[Zim-wiki] Windows 0.53 PRERELEASE including PortableApps.com build

2011-09-05 Thread Brendan Kidwell
[Trying sending this again because I used the wrong From address the first time.] All, I've spent the last night tweaking the Windows build and install processes. * Switched from GTK + PyCairo + PyGobject + PyGTK to PyGTK-all-in-one package; brought the desktop installer package size down to

[Zim-wiki] policy question relating to PortableApps.com Zim package -- absolute paths stored in notebooks.list

2011-09-05 Thread Brendan Kidwell
When the list of registered notebooks (for the Open Notebook dialog box) changes, Zim writes the list to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zim/notebooks.list . The paths in this file are always absolute paths with respect to the root of the filesystem (at least on Windows it seems that is the case). In order for

Re: [Zim-wiki] policy question relating to PortableApps.com Zim package -- absolute paths stored in notebooks.list

2011-09-05 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Brendan Kidwell sn...@glump.net wrote: The launch runs this script, sets $HOME to ~ and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to ~/Data/Config and then launches zim.exe . I just can't get my emails out clean today. Fix: The launch runs this script, sets $HOME to ~/Data

Re: [Zim-wiki] Win update not working on my Win XP

2011-09-05 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Marco Cevoli marco.cev...@gmail.com wrote: I've run the update and after that the zim.exe and nothing happens on my machine (win xp Italian). Please be more specific. The updates was an installer file from my recent email? -- Which URL? How did you run

Re: [Zim-wiki] Windows 0.53 PRERELEASE including PortableApps.com build

2011-09-05 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Brendan Kidwell sn...@glump.net wrote: [Trying sending this again because I used the wrong From address the first time.] All, I've spent the last night tweaking the Windows build and install processes. ... Marco reported that the installer doesn't work

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim release planning

2011-08-29 Thread Brendan Kidwell
release the same time the Zim 0.53 source goes out. Brendan Kidwell ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

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