Re: [Zim-wiki] Let's ride the anti-tomboy wave!

2009-06-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Just now noticed an important one: tomboy automatically turns any text > that is a name of a note into a link!  This removes some flexibility > but makes linking much simpler to understand and easier to manage. > Could we have it in Zim? > Please no! I have some page names that are common words,

Re: [Zim-wiki] Let's ride the anti-tomboy wave!

2009-06-28 Thread Matt Fivash
Does Zim and Tomboy compete is any meaningful way ?? Little yellow sticky notes (small and with a short time duration) and a notebook / journal (longer in both time and length) might be seen to fill different needs on a desktop. I use both, and find a place for both. It would be kinda nice to pu

Re: [Zim-wiki] Let's ride the anti-tomboy wave!

2009-06-28 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 16:10, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> * tomboy doesn't have any feature that zim hasn't (ok, it has one: you >> can choose text size) >> Just now noticed an important one: tomboy automatically turns any text that is a name of a note into a link! This removes some flexibility but mak

Re: [Zim-wiki] Let's ride the anti-tomboy wave!

2009-06-28 Thread Pablo Angulo
Dotan Cohen escribió: > > In the name of semantics I do prefer the Zim approach, but I can > understand how less technical users might prefer a word-processor > approach. This is something to thing about. > > Sure, the zim approach is plain better, I just noted a difference. >> * however, tomboy

Re: [Zim-wiki] Let's ride the anti-tomboy wave!

2009-06-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
> * tomboy doesn't have any feature that zim hasn't (ok, it has one: you > can choose text size) > In the name of semantics I do prefer the Zim approach, but I can understand how less technical users might prefer a word-processor approach. This is something to thing about. > * zim has a lot of u

Re: [Zim-wiki] Let's ride the anti-tomboy wave!

2009-06-28 Thread Pablo Angulo
Dotan, you're right. I like zim a hell of a lot more than this tomboy, but if there's a discussion about not depending on mono, then we should go promote zim. In short: * tomboy doesn't have any feature that zim hasn't (ok, it has one: you can choose text size) * zim has a lot of useful featur

[Zim-wiki] Let's ride the anti-tomboy wave!

2009-06-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have not used the Tomboy software, but it appears to be "a personal wiki" which is just Zim's niche. Is anyone familiar with this software? Where does it lack compared to Zim? What features does it have that Zim is missing? Zim can be marketed at "the Tomboy alternative" if it is done right. Sta