Re: [Zim-wiki] Call for user cases ?

2012-03-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 03:29, wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> The dataloss and the fact that Zim cannot handle arbitrary text for input >> are the reasons why Zim is unsuitable for use. The mislabel icon and >> reappearing links are reasons why Zim seems only ha

Re: [Zim-wiki] Call for user cases ?

2012-03-01 Thread hansbkk
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > The dataloss and the fact that Zim cannot handle arbitrary text for input > are the reasons why Zim is unsuitable for use. The mislabel icon and > reappearing links are reasons why Zim seems only half-baked. > One of my many use cases is stori

[Zim-wiki] Bounty for a mechanism to resolve syncing conflicts in zim

2012-03-01 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Dear all, Would like to draw your attention to the bounty for a mechanism for resolving syncing conflicts in zim. Thanks to a donation by Frank, the bounty is now set on 200 Euro. See http://www.zim-wiki.org/wiki/doku.php?id=resolving_syncing_conflicts If anyone would like to start working on thi

Re: [Zim-wiki] Feature suggestion - outliner

2012-03-01 Thread Ulf Bro
> but couldn't you do something similar with just simple renaming of > sub-pages since ZIM will rename the links for you if you did link > pages. I could > For example, your book starts as a single file under a name space: > > (Namespace) Great Novel > (sub-page) book body > > Realize that you

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.55 released !

2012-03-01 Thread Damien Accorsi
Hello all, I wrote an article presenting the 0.55 release for the french site LinuxFR. It should be online in the next hours. Damien On 02/28/2012 09:57 PM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: Dear all, I just uploaded version 0.55 of zim to the website. This release add support for numbered lists, ad

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread João Santos
I've made a simple lock mechanism. I believe this lock mechanism should work both on Windows and Linux (I've only tested on Linux and only on a local filesystem). I'll test it in windows and shared filesystems later. 2012/3/1 Jaap Karssenberg > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:01 AM, João Santos wrot

Re: [Zim-wiki] Feature suggestion - outliner

2012-03-01 Thread mowestusa
I may be missing a point that is being made in this feature request, but couldn't you do something similar with just simple renaming of sub-pages since ZIM will rename the links for you if you did link pages. For example, your book starts as a single file under a name space: (Namespace) Great N

Re: [Zim-wiki] problems installing zim0.55 on mac OS 10.7.3

2012-03-01 Thread Robert Corty
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Robert Corty wrote: >> >> > So does the list of paths contain "/path/to/zim-0.55" or "." ? Because >> > the >> > files that is where the missing files are. >> >> Yes, "/Users/rcorty/Desktop/zim-0.55" is the

Re: [Zim-wiki] problems installing zim0.55 on mac OS 10.7.3

2012-03-01 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Robert Corty wrote: > > So does the list of paths contain "/path/to/zim-0.55" or "." ? Because > the > > files that is where the missing files are. > > Yes, "/Users/rcorty/Desktop/zim-0.55" is the first item listed. > Them I'm out of ideas -- any Mac users want to

Re: [Zim-wiki] problems installing zim0.55 on mac OS 10.7.3

2012-03-01 Thread Robert Corty
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Robert Corty wrote: >> >> I did so and got the following error: >> >> ERROR: Could not find python module files in path: >> list of paths >> long list of paths >> Try setting PYTHONPATH >> > > So

Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.55 released !

2012-03-01 Thread Adam Porter
Ditto to all the kudos! Zim has become indispensable to me. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 07:22, Damien Accorsi wrote: > On 02/29/2012 01:50 PM, kwood...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Jaap, >> >> Wanted to send out my thanks as well.  I've been through a lot of >> outliners/wikis, including Treepad Business,

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:01 AM, João Santos wrote: > Wouldn't this module: http://packages.python.org/lockfile/lockfile.htmldo the > job? > Afraid not. This module will do locking between multiple processes on the same system, but it is not suitable for .e.g. multiple systems accessing the sam

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread João Santos
Wouldn't this module: http://packages.python.org/lockfile/lockfile.html do the job? As for stale lock files the easiest way to solve it is to allow the user to override them, but having a timeout value would not be a bad idea. 2012/3/1 Jaap Karssenberg > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, João San

Re: [Zim-wiki] Call for user cases ?

2012-03-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 22:20, Marco Cevoli wrote: > Most of the bugs you submitted are related to the way Zim visualizes > content and to the fact that you stores code into it. I don't see that > any of these bugs is so severe to limit the diffusion of Zim Wiki. In > fact, they don't even see bug

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, João Santos wrote: > I think the easiest way to implement this is by doing the following: > > 1 - User A opens a page. A lock file with a unique ID is created; > 2 - User B tries to open the same page, it opens read only with a message > saying that file is being

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread João Santos
I think the easiest way to implement this is by doing the following: 1 - User A opens a page. A lock file with a unique ID is created; 2 - User B tries to open the same page, it opens read only with a message saying that file is being edited and giving the user the option to override (this allows

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:47 AM, wrote: > I am of the opinion that just like version control, Zim is best served by > hooking into third-party best of breed tools for specialized functions like > this. DokuWiki for example tries to do this, but I would turn it off if I > could, as I keep my DW sou

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread Svenn Bjerkem
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 09:17 +, João Santos wrote: > Either way, ideally, zim should support simultaneous access to the > files, for example in a NFS or SMB shared filesystem. Yupp, that what it all boils down to. -- Svenn ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread João Santos
Either way, ideally, zim should support simultaneous access to the files, for example in a NFS or SMB shared filesystem. 2012/3/1 Svenn Bjerkem > On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 08:02 +, João Santos wrote: > > The problem with unison is that it is no longer actively developed. > > And beside that a

Re: [Zim-wiki] problems installing zim0.55 on mac OS 10.7.3

2012-03-01 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Robert Corty wrote: > I did so and got the following error: > > ERROR: Could not find python module files in path: > list of paths > long list of paths > Try setting PYTHONPATH > > So does the list of paths contain "/path/to/zim-0.55" or "." ? Because t

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread Svenn Bjerkem
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 08:02 +, João Santos wrote: > The problem with unison is that it is no longer actively developed. > And beside that an automatic syncing method would probably be better > for the average user. Well, git is also not automatically updating, but SparkleShare developers put i

Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?

2012-03-01 Thread João Santos
The problem with unison is that it is no longer actively developed. And beside that an automatic syncing method would probably be better for the average user. Com os melhores cumprimentos, João Miguel Cardoso Santos 2012/3/1 > I am of the opinion that just like version control, Zim is best se