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.
Comments
AkaXakA - January 4, 2005 8:02 pm
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!
David Björklund - January 5, 2005 10:07 am
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!
Teo Zilla - January 5, 2005 5:03 pm
<p>Sure, now you're going to take on Visio, too! :-)<p>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).</p><p>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.</p><p>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 <acronym title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>, <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language - Do I really need to do this?">HTML</abbr> (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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 <a href="http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" title="Freemind - Mind Mapping Software">FreeMind</a>.</p>
kNo' - January 6, 2005 1:08 pm
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.
kNo' - January 6, 2005 1:27 pm
Just ignore my last post. I figured it out by STFW.... and it works!