Ready for tomboy (0.11.3)!
Hooray! Do you know tomboy? Well,
ok - tomboy is a small desktop application for the Gnome desktop. It's
just a small sticky notes application. Tomtom is written in Mono and
requires tons of dependencies. But why should someone with a computer
should small sticky notes? You've already guessed it - for writing down
small things that you won't forget. I just read a book about Getting
things done by David Allen. He says everything what's in your mind is an
open loop. Your brain keeps you reminding frequently about these items,
you should write them down. As I am a person who writes alot of stickies
I decided to look for an application which I could use for such purpose.
Tomboy has some really great features for such an idea. It allows you to
link your stickies together. So you can have your project stickies and
write down several task. If you click on the task a new sticky shows you
more about this task. That's great! Of course, there is HTML export,
Evolution support, plugin support, plus plus plus - the feature list is
amazing.
I decided to give tomboy a shot and couldn't find it inside
pkgsrc, not even in wip. So I made my own pkgbox pkg. pkgbox pkgs are my
own personal packages which I make to keep things together. pkgsrc is a
great framework and building a package is usually quite easy. I won't
import it into pkgsrc, neither to wip - take this package as
it-works-for-me package and feel free to use it. Send me some feedback
if it's working for you and if you think that I should import it
somewhere. I am not a mono guy, I don't even understand the problems :)
so, feel free to send me your coments about this.
The homepage
for tomboy is located at Gnome - use this link
Download tomboy 0.11.3 pkgsrc pkg
You'll get a tar.gz archive. Just untar it inside your pkgsrc directory.
It will create a structure like pkgbox/tomboy in it (just like wip).
rhaen@arkanum.pkgbox.org:rhaen $ cd /usr/pkgsrc rhaen@arkanum.pkgbox.org:pkgsrc $ tar xzf ~/tomboy-pkg.tar.gz rhaen@arkanum.pkgbox.org:pkgsrc $ cd pkgbox/tomboy rhaen@arkanum.pkgbox.org:pkgsrc $ make package
