gnote: The Dehydrated Tomboy
Posted by lucidfox.org
at 18:04, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
To the delight of all Ubuntu users who have been complaining about Tomboy being a resource hog, thanks to Mackenzie ‘maco’ Morgan, I’ve discovered a Mono-free alternative: Gnote, which is basically a port of Tomboy to C++. It’s blazingly fast and, from her experience, integrates better with the GTK theme setting in KDE.
It is regretably not in the Ubuntu archive yet, but I’ve asked Vadim Peretokin, who has it available in his PPA, to contribute the package to karmic once it opens.
You should check out Zim as Tomboy replacement. It’s on Ubuntu proper and once you get used to the different paradigm, is really great.
GNote is actually a direct Tomboy replacement, including filetype and GUI. That means I could just “ln -s .tomboy .gnote” and have all of my data “transferred” to GNote (or rather, synchronized.
(via Planet Ubuntu) Every time I think “You know what would be kind of neat in Ubuntu?” some brilliant developer whips together exactly what I had in mind within a few months. First Sonata, then Getting Things Gnome and now Gnote.
This phenomenon is both spooky and awesome.
Thanks to maco!