Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Could you please start Conboy from the command line, then try again and send the output to me. It could help me figuring out, what's happening.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

INFO: DBus said orientation is: landscape
###################################
Request token url: https://one.ubuntu.com/oauth/request/
Authenticate url : https://one.ubuntu.com/oauth/authorize/
Access token url : https://one.ubuntu.com/oauth/access/
###################################
Reply: Expired timestamp: given 1261351535 and now 1261354892 has a greater difference than threshold 900
ERROR: Reply could not be parsed
INFO: Accelerometers disabled

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

That sounds like the clock on your tablet is out of sync with the ubuntu one clock. Can you make sure that your tablets clock is set correctly? It seems to lagging about 56 minutes. Could that be?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

This morning an update showed up in App Manager (0.6.2) and completed without errors. Only now I can't find Conboy in the "Others" menu, and my desktop shortcut is gone...

Is this my App manager acting up, or is there a problem with this version (I do have Extras testing + devel enabled :-) ?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Conboy 0.6.2 is meant to be the next stable release. It basically the last conboy-unstable, but renamed. It's currently on it's way to extras-testing, so you probably still got it from extras-devel.
Please try to completely uninstall all versions of conboy or conboy-unstable and reinstall it. Let me know if that brings your icon back.

Ah and it should be optified now. And the same version is also available for Chinook and Diablo.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

What I did in the meantime is uninstall 0.6.2, disable Extras testing and devel, and reinstall 0.5.8 from plain Extras. This gave me back the Conboy icon in Others, I just had to re-create my desktop shortcut.

I'll try 0.6.2 again when it's in Testing, right now I just needed my Xmas shopping notes back, quick :-)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I just did so and the icon is back. :)

Unfortunately, I can't authenticate with Ubuntu One. After I add device on the Ubuntu One website, I see only white screen of the browser. I don't receive any confirmation from the website.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Could you please execute the following command in xterm and post the result (if any)?

grep conboy /usr/share/applications/uri-action-defaults.list

Thanks :)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I get:

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

This is how it all looks when I start Conboy from X term:

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

The things you posted look ok. For some reason the redirect from Ubuntu One back to Conboy does not work. I just tried it and have the same problem. I'll look into it as soon as I can. Sorry :/

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

i pasted yesterday the error of the command line i think due to the time difference between one server and egypt the ssl or cookie is not accepted. if you could inreace the lilit from 900 or disable the check i think it will work.


btw awosome app :)

ehab
www.elmotaheda.com

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

The problem is, that the time checking is done by the server. Different time zones shouldn't matter in theory, but I'll check again. Maybe I'm using a time function which uses local time?!

I'll check again.

Thanks :)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

the new update to conboy looks great, but i notice you've removed my favourite feature- the setting to always go to the search dialog on startup. is there a particular reason why you've removed this?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

looked at the unix timestamps then changed my time to the server time wich was close to gmt and it worked but i got the blanck screen described by someone else here.

still no sync love


ehab
www.mashy.com

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

To be honest, I can´t remember ;) I think I removed it at some point, because I completely changed the window handling. Then after sorting this all out, I probably just forgot about it because I´ve never used it myself.

I´ll try to bring it back ASAP :) Could you please file a bug so I won´t forget about it?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Thanks for trying this out. I´ve already created a bug about the timestamps. Hopefully I find some time during the Christmas holidays to look at sync again.

Also I think I´ll remove it from the versions which is going to extras. There are just too many problems with it at the moment. The version in extras-devel will have it included of course.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Ok, I found the problem, why the redirect from Ubuntu One back to Conboy is not working.

In this file /usr/share/applications/uri-action-defaults.list the last line is:
conboy=hildon-conboy.desktop

This line is at the wrong position. It needs to be added to the first section of this file. I´ll fix it with the next update. If someone tried to edit the file manually, run "update-desktop-database" as root afterwards. This will crash the browser :/ But afterwards it should work. (At least a bit...)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Is there a way to get the icon back without loosing any notes? I got some important notes there I really need... ;)

Thanks for the great app. :)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

did that and iit worked but only some of my notes got synced so like a good boy i got you the error on the command line seems like it is chocking on some of the links in my tomboy in incorrectly parsing them as internal links

some links changed due to sensitive nature of note



^
ERROR: Failed to parse content.
:3: namespace error : Namespace prefix link on internal is not defined
<link:internal>/usr/lib/Dell_Remote_Console_Switch_Software</link:internal>
^
:13: namespace error : Namespace prefix link on internal is not defined
<link:internal>https://xx.xxx.xx.2xx:10000/</link:internal>
^
:17: namespace error : Namespace prefix link on internal is not defined
backup report <link:internal>http://xx.xx.xx.xxx/</link:internal>
^
ERROR: Failed to parse content.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

ok done. thanks for all your work on this!

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

First of all, thanks for a great note-taking app!

Then on to business: I updated Conboy yesterday and now it's disappeared from my desktop and application menu (shows up in Application Manager, though). I have quite a lot of notes already and I don't wanna lose them which brings me to my question: Is it safe to uninstall and then reinstall Conboy to get the icons back or will I lose all my notes?

Big thanks!

//basse

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Sorry for the inconvenience with the icon.
It's totally save to uninstall Conboy. You're notes won't get touched.
It's also possible to create a backup using the build-in backup tool. Those backups also contain all your Conboy notes. That's generally a good idea before installing testing/devel software.

But as I said, uninstall/install won't touch your notes :)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Thanks! Conboy reinstalled and every note intact :)

//b

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Conboy 0.6.3 is in extras-testing now.
Please give it some testing love, so we could get it into extras within 10 days as a new years present. That would be the 33.12.2009 ;) Anyways, should be there once everyone is sober again...

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...l/conboy/0.6.3

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I'll list cons only:

1. Portrait mode is unusable. I can only read notes.


http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/1562...7dcd885e18.jpg

2. Option "XML Storage Backend" is useless, because without it Conboy doesn't work anyway.

http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/1562...4f9075821c.jpg

3. In Polish locales, sorting options are not fully seen.

http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/1562...421c6702a8.jpg

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

You wouldn't be able to type notes anyway considering the virtual keyboard only supports landscape mode.

We don't have any portrait keyboard yet (not even matchbox or xkbd yet).

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I fail to see how being able to read notes makes it unusable. Portrait mode is optimized for one handed use and there is no portrait keyboard. So what do you expect? If it's about following links, there's already a bug report about it. What else?

There are currently two more plugins in developement. hopefully more in the future. It will make sense then.

Could you please file a bug about this. Preferable with replacement strings.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Conny, does this version (0.6.3) fix the sync issue as well? Currently, I also can't get beyond the blank authorisation screen from one.ubuntu.com (it doesn't go back to conboy). I am very much looking forward to that feature!

EDIT: I just saw that you took out Sync. Never mind the question. still looking forward to it, though :-)

Thanks for all the work. I love Conboy... together with gPodder and MaStory they are my favorite apps on the N900.

Happy Holidays!

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Thanks for the update.

Am i right that the option, open list on startup is missing?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

You right, I was thinking you can add on-screen keyboard for your application only. I'm ignorant. Sorry.


O.K. now it makes sense. :)

I did that, but I'm not sure it was right place: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7318

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I've looked several pages back into this threads history and just saw a passing comment about changing the way window handling is done.

Maybe I need to spend more time with it but I had gotten really used to keeping my most commonly used notes open all the time and then just using the task switcher to switch between them. Now I've got to switch to the open note and then go to the note switcher.

A thing in general about the note switcher not being kept as a separate window. It makes the user think a little extra before they perform their task. The user's mind has to think "I switch to TODO to open Shopping". With the new window handling its worst because the user will now have a different target in the task switcher any time they want to open a note. What about handling it like the web browser, the bookmarks window, and the bookmarks subwindow?

I'm curious, what was the instigator for the change?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Yes, you are right. there is already a bug report about it.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Hello,

i'm a newbie to conboy on the maemo and from tomboy (Gnome-Mac OS X).

It is a very good beginning for me, to do my stuff:)

I'm searching for a way, to open my tomboy file with conboy on my N900.

I use the following environment:

1. Storeing the file under my Dropboxfolder user/tomboy
so i'll can use it although on my iMac

On my N900 i'll can't select any other file, see the picture below.
There is no access to the settings?

What is a practicably workaround?

Thx for your reply

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

The reason why it was changed is simple. Many people complained about the old (multi window) mode. It's difficult to make everyone happy and maybe the current behaviour needs a bit more tuning. Maybe I need to add the possibility to open a note in a new window. Maybe the note list should be a separate window. Feel free to discuss this here with different users. Let's see what people want. I personally don't care too much, because after 5 days I've adjusted to a new behaviour anyways.

From a developers point of view I would of course like to keep it simple. Supporting 5 different window handling modes is a lot of work and chances to introduce bugs is high.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I'm 100% sure that i understood what you're trying to do, so please correct me if I'm making wrong assumptions here.

I think there is currently no dropbox client for the N900, so syncing via dropbox is not possible. It is possible to send the tomboy notes to the N900 using for example scp or rsync. While doing this Conboy should not run.

I'm currently adding support to sync Conboy to the web (e.g. Ubuntu One or Snowy). Then you could sync Tomboy with Conboy via one of those web services.
At the moment there are still too many bugs, but as soon as they are fixed, this should be the best solution.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

great! syncing in some form is THE killer feature for me. I use tomboy on linux for a sort of structured TODO list... I have tried conboy and it is nice but I will really start using it once I can sync it somehow. I currently use ubuntu one but I am willing to switch to any of the available options. even sync to folder + rsync.

Could you briefly explain how to manually do synchronization in the meantime (which files do I need to copy)? I could use an ssh server for instance. This way I can start using your program.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Reply to myself: /home/user/.conboy, as mentioned here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38598

Sorry for not searching first ;-)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

I tried to use a quick and dirty solution for syncing conboy with tomboy, by using the tomboy option to sync over ssh, and some simple scp-based scripts on the n900 side. However tomboy syncing does not simply copy the .note files, but uses xml manifest files and organizes notes into sub-folders based on revision. So a quick scp will not work.
I guess I'll have to wait for the real thing ;-)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

You can "sync" Tomboy and Conboy using scp or rsync. But if you use this, don't use the really Tomboy sync. Instead just copy the .notes files and only them.
Of course you won't get conflict handling, revisions, etc. Also while doing this Conboy should be off, because it won't recognize new notes while running. For Tomboy you could install the filesystem watcher plugin. This will update Tomboy whenever a new note was added to the filesystem.