Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-12-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Well, having some kind of scope is appropriate.  IMO, if you are far enough > into understanding the internals of Zim enough to create a notebook using an > external program you likely know how to manually import the notebook. ;) > Yes, agreed! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://g

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-12-02 Thread George De Bruin
Well, having some kind of scope is appropriate. IMO, if you are far enough into understanding the internals of Zim enough to create a notebook using an external program you likely know how to manually import the notebook. ;) George On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > What ab

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-12-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
> What about having a "first run" routine that scans the user's home directory > for any folders containing Zim notebooks and builds the path, then offers to > let the user add paths directly, or scan another directory for folders to > add to the path.  Once this is done the first time there wouldn

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-30 Thread George De Bruin
What about having a "first run" routine that scans the user's home directory for any folders containing Zim notebooks and builds the path, then offers to let the user add paths directly, or scan another directory for folders to add to the path. Once this is done the first time there wouldn't be a

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-30 Thread Pedro
In that case I would recomend this to be implemented with minimal user experience modifications as possible. I.e. no default folder. If the goal is tome make it possible for a user to import a few notebooks at once, then this feature it doesn't need to come active by default. A user could simply de

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-30 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> 1) I think that "notes" is the wrong term here, even if Zim has been > >> using it historically. > > > > How about ~/Notebooks ? Or is that not what you meant ? > > > > Theses are not notes, nor is Zim a notebook. I think that the > ill-def

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> 1) I think that "notes" is the wrong term here, even if Zim has been >> using it historically. > > How about ~/Notebooks ? Or is that not what you meant ? > Theses are not notes, nor is Zim a notebook. I think that the ill-defined term "wiki" better describes Zim. I mention this because the ter

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-30 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Pedro wrote: > Hey all, it appears that this is really going forward. Nevertheless, here > goes my point of view, which apparently totally differs from most: > > Personally i don't think that much magic is necessary. The current list is > simple and straightforwar

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-30 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/11/29 Pablo Angulo : > > Jaap Karssenberg escribió: > >> I have been thinking about this a bit and it seems to me that it would > >> be good if zim searches for notebooks in certain standard locations... > >> Any thoughts on this ? > > U

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-29 Thread Pedro
Hey all, it appears that this is really going forward. Nevertheless, here goes my point of view, which apparently totally differs from most: Personally i don't think that much magic is necessary. The current list is simple and straightforward. Adding those kind of features sure can save some secon

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-29 Thread Pablo Angulo
Dotan Cohen escribió: > 1) I think that "notes" is the wrong term here, even if Zim has been > using it historically. > Maybe a "notebook" is a kind of "document", and you can use XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR. Anyway, I only use one notebook. > 2) Is this a freedesktop file or a Gnome file? > I'd say it

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/11/29 Pablo Angulo : > Jaap Karssenberg escribió: >> I have been thinking about this a bit and it seems to me that it would >> be good if zim searches for notebooks in certain standard locations... >> Any thoughts on this ? > Unfortunately, there seems to be no standard directory for notes in

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-29 Thread Pablo Angulo
Jaap Karssenberg escribió: > I have been thinking about this a bit and it seems to me that it would > be good if zim searches for notebooks in certain standard locations... > Any thoughts on this ? Unfortunately, there seems to be no standard directory for notes in .config/user-dirs.dirs It woul

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I have been thinking about this a bit and it seems to me that it would be > good if zim searches for notebooks in certain standard locations. So there > would be a configurable search path, by default something like "~/Notes" and > "~/" and any notebooks found (identified by the presence of a "no

Re: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list

2009-11-26 Thread 0x0000
--- On Tue, 11/24/09, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > From: Jaap Karssenberg > Subject: [Zim-wiki] Managing the notebook list > To: "Zim" > Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 10:19 PM > Hi, > > I'm looking at the way we manage the notebook list. > Currently this is just a static list in an ascii file