Straight from the release notes of the recently released Fedora 12:
Gnote is installed by default in GNOME for this release replacing Tomboy. Gnote is a port of Tomboyfrom Mono to C++ and consumes fewer resources. Gnote is both an applet that can sit in your GNOME panel as well as an individual application you can run within other desktop environments. Fedora Desktop Live CD since the Fedora 10 release has excluded Mono and hence Mono-based applications like Tomboydue to lack of space. Gnote will be installed by default in the Live CD as well in this release. Tomboy is still available as an optional alternative. If you are upgrading from the previous release you will not be migrated to Gnote and will continue to have Tomboy. Tomboy users can migrate easily to Gnote as it shares the file format and a plugin is available in Gnote that will automatically import Tomboy notes on first run. Many of the Tomboy plugins have been ported to Gnote. The following plugins are available as part of Gnote:
cp -r .tomboy .gnoteThe sticky notes applet is not provided anymore since Gnote provides a better note taking utility and is available by default in this release.
Everybody happy ?
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Actually, I’m not. Gnote does not have a dbus interface, so it cannot be interrogated by third party applications (see firefox extension for tomboy, “getting things gnome!”..).
Gnote’s original upstream appears to have abandoned the project. Are you aware of anyone who has stepped up to take over? If not, then it’s unlikely that Gnote will ever reach functional parity with the current version of Tomboy (e.g. online note synchronization), let alone future versions.
Perhaps you could adopt the project?
Not me, I’m just not good enough.
Beside that, I didn’t found any statement of abandonment, on his website. Apparently he will maintain it the best he can, and, even in case he abandons it, having it included in Fedora raises considerably the chances of adoption.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnote-list/2009-October/msg00001.html
There also hasn’t been a single commit by Hub (nor a non-translation commit by ANYONE) since mid-August: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnote/commit/?id=8c817698f60c6c95f2180a1a0e51da2ed036e546
Gnote appears to desperately need some actual developer time. Sadly, the romantic image of there always being someone to look after Free Software code doesn’t always happen in reality, and projects are abandoned every day.
Perhaps you should poke your peers, to see if any of THEM want to take on maintenance duties?
Jo: 3-4 months pause is no big deal if there are no major bugs. Even Gimp had a big stop in development some years ago and it still there (ops, not for long
.. ). We’ll see what happens.
About my peers, who are you referring to ?
Not happy. First thing I did was reinstall Tomboy and purge that sucker. What the hell is this about anyway? Using a sub-par knock-off for some esoteric, idialist reason? Until somebody actually proves to me that Mono is bad in any way, this is very useless and unneeded. BTW, you do prefer Gnote? Are you running Nvidia drivers on that machine?