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KNotes -- Notes for the Trinity Desktop Environment
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KNotes aims to be a useful and full featured notes application for
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the TDE project. It tries to be as fast and lightweight as
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possible although including some advanced features.
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KNotes has already reached its second stage and I'm currently
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developing the third and probably last one.
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The second stage was the complete integration with the new KDE 2.
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The third stage will include adding the rest of the features from KDE 1's
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KNotes not yet ported and the possibility to edit rich text in all
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the notes.
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I try to provide code that is very clear and easy to understand and
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that can serve as a good example how to use TDE's windowmanager, TWin,
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the session management, the XMLGUI and the printing framework.
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KNotes can:
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* accept drag and drop (even from a remote ftp site)
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* mail your note
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* print your note (not yet perfect)
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* insert the current date
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* have arbitrary colors for background and text
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* have arbitrary sized notes
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* use an arbitrary font for the body and the title
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* do auto-indentation
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and remembers all this on a per note basis on exit.
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To get started, point the mouse pointer on a KNotes note and use the right
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mouse button to bring up the KNotes pop-up menu.
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A little history:
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KNotes was originally started by Bernd Wuebben for KDE 1. The goal was mainly
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to test and extend the kwm communications protocol as it was quite limited by
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that time.
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Wynn Wilkes then did the initial port of KNotes to the next generation of KDE,
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KDE 2. Some (hopefully rarely used) features are still not ported yet, see below
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for the list.
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Because I was using KNotes daily (and still do so - of course ;) I sent in a
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bugreport and got to test the fix for KDE 2.0. Since then I got really addicted
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to KNotes' code which is expressed by the fact that I'm the maintainer now :-))
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Known issues:
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* printing is not fully implemented yet
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Features not (yet?) ported from KNotes 1.x:
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* do two different frame styles
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* associate an alarm timer to a note and notify you on expiry
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If you have any feedback, suggestions, new features or little enhancements,
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please don't hesitate to drop me a mail. I still didn't find the patch of how
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to read the users' mind ;-))
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Have fun!
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Best Regards,
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Michael <brade@kde.org>
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