News in Gnote

A small update what was going on in Gnote recently.
WebDAV synchronization support
This was the one that took quite a bit of time. Few challenges and successes experienced:

• Replacement for C# Process class. The tricky part was redirection of programs output, which gave me a good oportunity to learn low level UNIX I/O
• Integration with gnome-keyring was easy. Instead of porting heaps of C# code I simply used gnome-keyring library and wrapped in Tomboy-compatible classes with only required methods
• Learned basic usage of wdfs for mounting WebDAV shares

Dropped support for panel applet
With GNOME 3 here, applets are obsolete. Also, Gtkmm finally got Gtk::Application available. This alowed to replace use of GtkApplication by more C++ style code. The later however does not seem to be compatible with panel applet code.
Removed deprecated Gtk::Main
A technical implementation point. It was deprecated in Gtkmm 3.4 with Gtk::Application as an alternative. The you already know.
A look forward

• Redesigning Gnote as Notes is still a most challenging part.
• There are couple of add-ins I believe most of us would like to see in Gnote, such as integration with Evolution and note directory watcher.