Sticky notes

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.1.4

Notes: Sticky Notes v1.1.4 =================== by Jørn Christensen Table of content: ================= 1. What is Sticky Notes? 2. Beware!!! 3. How do I compile/install? 4. Are there any rpm or deb? 5. I found a bug... 6. Feature request! 7. License information. 8. Changelog. 9. Contact information. Please at least read the bug list - section 5. 1. What is Sticky Notes? ======================== I kind of like the idea of sticking little notes to my desktop - just like you would stick yellow stickers on your fridge. For a long time, I used knotes for that purpose but got really really tired of the KDE connection. (No - I dont think KDE is neat - its rather heavy and has too many superflously features. I like small programs who only does one job; but does it well :-) ) So in lack of alternatives, I decided to write my own version of knotes: Snotes (for Sticky Notes). If you compare knotes and snotes (and disregard the KDE-connection) you will see that - The basic idea, as well as the basic layout, is the same. - Knotes has a more polished view than Snotes. - Overall Snotes is more configurable than Knotes. As said before, I basically wrote Snotes for my own use, so there are some bugs and missing features (see bug section) which I do not plan to invest much time in. I can perfectly use Snotes as it is now. So there will probably not be many updates (except for bugfixes) in the future unless there are requests! 2. BEWARE!!! ============ The data in Snotes are not encrypted. It is stored in plain text in ~/.snotes and information stored with Snotes should therefor NOT be security sensitive information - e.g. passwords. I specifically made Snotes, so when I opened an SSH connection to my computer I would still be able to read my notes. 3. How do I compile/install? ============================ Requirements: ------------- * QT development files * libc6 dev files Compilation: ------------ I used qmake to generate Makefile (and friends). So you have to have qmake installed also (which is AFAIK a part of the QT dev package you just downloaded). It should compile by typing: qmake -project qmake -nocache make Installation: ------------- Just copy the binary file snotes to your bin dir. qmake does not provide any install (or uninstall) script, but since its only that one binary (and I originally only intended to use it myself) I did not wanna bother with an install script. Ooops, something went wrong: ---------------------------- Go on... bug hunting time :-) Since Snotes compiles fine on my system, it is probabæy something wrong with your QT installation (qmake not being able to find the right libs?). 4. Are there any rpm or deb? ---------------------------- Nope! You wanna make a package? Be my guest :-) Drop me an email; I would be glad to hear it :-) 5. I found a bug... ------------------- Good for you :-) Now... You have several choices, which I here list in prefered order: 1. You can fix the bug and send me a patch. 2. You can find out what is causing the bug and mail me how to correct it. 3. Send me a mail, describing the bug and how to invoke it. 4. Ignore the bug and keep living your life. 5. Diss Snotes and find another application. (Deprecated) 6. Send me a flame mail with REALLY BIG LETTERS and NO usefull information - just calling me names, which my mother (and yours too) would be ashamed to hear. (Really deprecated!) There are some known bugs: * The icon does not dock in the task bar of KDE or IceWM. - No - This is essentially a feature request. It cannot be a bug since I did not implement it. I use WindowMaker which do not have the posibility of tray icons. (Instead it uses docking icons - which I have disabled). If someone requests the feature (and maybe gives me a hint on how to implement it) I might look into it.... * The sticky feature does not work with {put your favorite WM here}. - I implemented the sticky feature as described by netwm standards - (if I understood them correctly). It works with WindowMaker (which I uses) so I guess its a bug in {again, put your favorite WM here}. 6. Feature request! =================== Nice. Again, you have several options: 1. Implement feature and send me a patch. 2. Send me a mail with feature request. 3. Mumble and ignore the missing feature. 4. Mumble, grumble, diss Snotes and find another app. (Deprecated). 7. License information. ======================= Snotes uses the free version of QT, which is licensed under GPL. Therefore Snotes is also licensed under GPL. Easy, right? BTW, this software is provided "as is" with no warranty - so you have been warned. 8. Changelog: ============= 1.1.4 QT has released v3.3.4 which fixes a tabular bug in their QTextEdit. So I enabled the autoindent feature again. 1.1.3 Fixed a minor bug for WindowAttributes settings. 1.1.2 Fixed a configuration load bug. (NoteLayer was loaded into IconLayer). 1.1.1 Implemented code so alarms that were ment to go off while snotes was not running (e.g. the computer was shut down) is activated when starting snotes. 1.1.0 Scroll to top of note when opening a note with more text than the window holds. Better layout management on main preferences. Rename of note did not update the name in note list menu. Give the windows different class names => better management from WMaker. NetWM compliant stay-on-top, below-all, skip-task-bar and sticky features. A simple alarm has been implemented. 1.0.1 Stripped window decoration. Stay-on-top bugfix for the icon. 1.0 First release 9. Contact information. ======================= My email address on sourceforge: mettle@users.sourceforge.net Jørn Christensen Denmark

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Changes: Changelog: ======== 1.1.4 QT has released v3.3.4 which fixes a tabular bug in their QTextEdit. So I enabled the autoindent feature again. 1.1.3 Fixed a minor bug for WindowAttributes settings. 1.1.2 Fixed a configuration load bug. (NoteLayer was loaded into IconLayer). 1.1.1 Implemented code so alarms that were ment to go off while snotes was not running (e.g. the computer was shut down) is activated when starting snotes. 1.1.0 Scroll to top of note when opening a note with more text than the window holds. Better layout management on main preferences. Rename of note did not update the name in note list menu. Give the windows different class names => better management from WMaker. NetWM compliant stay-on-top, below-all, skip-task-bar and sticky features. A simple alarm has been implemented. 1.0.1 Stripped window decoration. Stay-on-top bugfix for the icon. 1.0 First release