Comments on: 5 Little Useful Sticky Notes For Linux

By: Malcolm Bastien

Malcolm Bastien — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00:13 +0000

Considering how good Tomboy is already and being included with Ubuntu (one of the best pre-included packages in my opinion) it’s hard to convince people to use anything else but. Though I know that nobody is really using tomboy as effective as possible on their desktops.

By: Vadim

Vadim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:24:16 +0000

Not necessarily a hater; GNote starts up faster and uses less memory for most people.

By: Toshio

Toshio — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:14:50 +0000

As an XFCE user, I have used both Gnote and XFCE’s own note-taking panel applet and found them to be on equal footing as far as functionality.
I like the desktop integration that the XFCE note-taking applet brings with it, but I’m amazed at how far Gnote has advanced from when it was initially announced (version 0.1 at the beginning of April I believe) to the present day (version 0.5 as of June 2009). There is some real competition between Gnote and Tomboy as far as number of features, and given 2-3 months, Gnote will have the upper hand.

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:57:18 +0000

First, learn how to correctly spell “royally” then you may insult others. Secondly, like my colleagues have pointed out, it was just used as an example. I don’t understand why you need to comment about a little thing like this.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:26:24 +0000

@ Anonstrubator

it’s just an example, and if you you don’t understand that you must be a real idiot.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:05:00 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. I left GNote out because it is essentially the same app as Tomboy. I guess I should make a note at the end of the article for mono-hater.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:55:45 +0000

The screenshot is only for illustration purpose. Do you need to be so rude in your comment?

By: opensas

opensas — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:48:02 +0000

yes, User, I was about to make exactly the same observation…
It would be very nice if the author of this article could include the monoless port of tomboy in this review…

By: FreeBooteR

FreeBooteR — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:46:51 +0000

I second Gnote.

By: User

User — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:48:52 +0000

While I only dislike Mono because of strictly technical issues, some people really hate Mono apps on their desktop. Tomboy is one such app that has received such criticism. I would like to point out that there is a C++ port of Tomboy (that works exactly the same, but faster and requires less RAM and disk spaced), GNote. It is a very good alternative to Tomboy.