The Gnome Outliner project was dreamed up and got started here on this weblog last May. Gnome Outliner is a simple application to write and edit outlines for the Gnome desktop environment for Linux.
There was some nice buzz when the project got started – lots of people were proposing ideas and started writing code in several different languages. After the buzz died down, things slowed on the project for a few months. In the past week, though, we’ve gotten a series of patches and things are starting to get rolling again.
Following the great open-source motto to “release early and release often”, we’ve done our first release: Gnome Outliner version 0.1. It’s not quite ready for every day use, but there is a good base there and I’m anticipating some nice progress in the coming months. Thanks to all who have contributed so far.
Finally a program that starts with a good interface than one that starts with good code!
I’m still wondering if MPlayer will get a good GUI, as especially on windows, it’s rather lacking (and, my word, they’re all so UGLY on windows).
Good luck with the project!
Yey! I made it work!
This was actually my first shot ever in compiling a program from source… usually I rely on ubuntu.
It looks really good, especially for being a 0.1 realese. It will be nice to se the progress of the work!
Sure, now you’re going to take on Visio, too! 🙂
This is a good idea. If you’re sticking with nice interface and lightweight, this might not be an option, but a logical extension of outlines are mind maps, flowcharts, and other, more non-linear-yet-hierarchical methods of doing the same thing. This would be especially nice if the files created were as nice as the interface looks (at least under Bluecurve).
Conversely, having used software for lists and outlines, it would be nice to have the option of a numbering style rather than the little collapsy-arrows and check-boxes. It’s helpful when you get several levels into a long list.
Unfortunately, the only place I can think of using this is on my laptop, which has to be Windows for work. I haven’t installed, therefore, but I’m curious about exporting outlines to XML, HTML (as complete pages and snippets as lists with sub-lists, and as heading hierarchies), not to mention Open Office, and Word formats. If/when it does this, these things should figure prominently on the website.
There’s a great chance to integrate this with PDAs for those of us who can’t have a Linux iPAQ or Axim. I think something like this shipped with certain devices, but the version I had with my iPAQ was really annoying.
It it’s exciting to see nice open source aps coming together. I hope there’s a Windows port. Until then, I don’t mind FreeMind.
well… tried to ./configure it, but it sent me an error… tried to setup some GTK+-2.0 libraries, but it didn’t work, though.
I wish I could test it, I’m using Odot on my Ubuntu, but it lacks a lot of features.
Just ignore my last post. I figured it out by STFW…. and it works!