[CentOS] Tomboy on F12 to Gnote on Centos

Steve Blackwell zephod at cfl.rr.com
Sun Jul 28 14:52:23 UTC 2013


On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 02:59:50 +0200
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote:

> On 07/27/2013 09:15 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> > I'm trying to convert my Tomboy notes from an old F12 system to
> > Gnote on this CentOS 6 system.
> >
> > What I have found buy googling so far:
> > - Tomboy notes used to be stored in $HOME/.tomboy
> > - Some Tomboy upgrade moved them to $HOME/.local/share/.tomboy
> > - Gnote stores its notes in $HOME/.local/share/gnote
> > - Gnote has a Tomboy note converter add-in
> >
> > My Tomboy notes are in /home/steve/.tomboy so I had the old Tomboy
> > system.
> > I have the Tomboy add-in installed in Gnote
> >
> > I have tried copying my notes from $HOME/.tomboy to
> > $HOME/.local/share/gnote and I have also tried copying them to
> > $HOME/.local/share/tomboy but in either case I don't see them in
> > gnote.
> >
> > Do I have a directory name wrong or is there some action needed to
> > start the conversion?
> 
> I am not sure about Gnote. I have rebuilt Tomboy 1.2.2-1 (no GPG) in
> my public repo 
> (http://rpms.plnet.rs/plnet-centos6-x86_64/RPMS.plnet-compiled/) and
> it informed me that he moved all my notes to new location (if I
> remember corectly).
> 
> I use that Tomboy version every day and enjoy in Sync option via
> Local folder (NFS) and SSH.
> 
I got the impression that Tomboy was obsolete and not supported and
that Gnote was its new shiny replacement so I was trying to avoid
Tomboy but perhaps I will have to go back to using it.

Steve



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