This looks nice! I will most likely take this in the next version so that a user who has set his prefered editor can use this! I also think about a settings-file where a bash-script could make a notice if the user wants KDialog or a editor. But lets see :-) thx all

yes. I like the servicemenu, very useful. But I agree totally with these thoughts, a dialog instead of an editor and a different file extension would make MyFileNote almost perfect. thx bye

Thanks for your Ideas: The .filenote extension is a nice Idea and i will think about it. For the KDialog i don't know - I like the idea of a smaller input window but i use MyFileNote not allone for small urls or some other short Text. I write down entire descriptions of a program for example including hints to install or versions etc. - This way i can search with Kerry or another search programm for it. For that i myself want a good texteditor. I will look at the response for this app see what other people want. I think this could be a optional feature. So the user could chose.

I checked KDialog features. I don't know the size of the text you can enter in a text input box but it can be long enough to trigger the use of a scrollbar. Besides, you have the usual keyboard shortcuts to cut/copy/paste. The only problem is that whichever way your format your input, it will turn into a single paragraph. Any way, it works quite nicely. So, here's the script I wrote for my very personal version of MyFileNote: ------------ #! /bin/bash fullname=$1 if [ "${fullname##*.}" != "filenote" ] ; then fullname="$fullname.filenote" fi if [ -e "$fullname" ] ; then oldnote=`cat "$fullname"` fi shortname="${fullname##*/}" shortname="${shortname%%.filenote}" newnote=`kdialog --title "MyFileNote" --textinputbox \ "Note about \"$shortname\":" "$oldnote" 300 200` if [ "$oldnote" != "$newnote" ] ; then if [ -z "$newnote" ] ; then rm "$fullname" else echo $newnote > "$fullname" fi fi ------------ Do what you want with it. It is made as well to create notes as to view/edit them. And it contains a special feature: When you delete entirely the text of a note, the note itself is deleted from your disk. Very useful when you view an old note that you don't need any more.

To create a new file type, create the file "$KDEDIR/share/mimelnk/text/filenote.desktop" as root. (AFAIK, you can't have a personal file type.) then paste into it the following: ------------ [Desktop Entry] Comment=Note about a file Comment[fr]=Note sur un fichier Encoding=UTF-8 Hidden=false Icon=filetypes MimeType=text/filenote Patterns=*.filenote Type=MimeType X-KDE-AutoEmbed=false [Property::X-KDE-NativeExtension] Type=QString Value=.filenote [Property::X-KDE-text] Type=bool Value=true ------------ This separates the ".filenote" from the simple texts and assign a nice icon to them. This also enables you to assign an app or a script to open them. Don't forget to add a comment in your language... If you want.

This is interesting but how to use the script with the servicemenu?

First, you save my script in your $PATH without forgetting to set the executable flag. You create the new filetype with the "filenote.desktop" file I also gave. Then you create a new text file or you re-use an existing one. All that matters is that it has the extension ".filenote". (The content is irrelevant.) Finally you associate the ".filenote" files with the script. This step enables you to view/edit/delete file notes. To be able to create filenotes, you download MyFileNote and you edit the "Exec=" line so that it says: Exec=/path/to/my/script %U (Just %U, that's intentional.) You save it and you install it as RealAlienX explains. That's it. Just to make everything look a little better, you can also edit the "Icon=" line so that it says: Icon=filetypes (I find this icon really nice... and appropriate.) If you have more questions, you know where to find me. ;-)

Thanks for your help! This is great enhancement. To enhance it some more I have a couple of suggestions: 1. Configure Exec in filetype Is it possible to associate the script in the the filenote filetype directly? So The step to associate the filetype with the script would be obsolete. 2. Icon The filetypes icon is in fact very appropriate. It would be nice if the starticon and the windowicon also would be 'filetypes'. 3. Linebreaks You write that paragraphs aren't possible. If think the problem is the conversion of the control characters for linebreaks and paragraphs. If you modify the text of a filenote in a editor an then open it with kdialog you have linebreaks. When you modify the text in kdialog the linebreaks are gone. So the shellscript should convert linebreaks from kdialog into control characters. 4. Edit and delete button A nice feature and an argument to merge your solution with the original one would be a button 'Edit with Editor' for advanced edit. An other button could be 'delete' to delete the note directly. You'll find a tutorial here: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kdialog/t1.html 5. Installer Last but not least: With an installer it isn't anymore necessary to give further instructions ;-)

1. I was only proposing ideas. I can't re-built RealAlienX's archive. 2. For that, you must add the script somewhere in KMenu and give it the appropriate icon. 3. Forget what I said. It was my mistake. You must add quotes to the "echo" line so that it looks like: echo "$newnote" > "$fullname" 4. I agree with the delete button. It would make things easier. As for using a regular editor: No. I use KDialog because I found that an editor was too much to write tiny notes. Besides, the text editor of KDialog supports everthing: copy/cut/paste through the regular shortcuts, drag and drop. What else do you want? A bigger window? Change the script to have it. ;-) And thanks for the tutorial but that won't be needed. LOL 5. Sure! An installer would be nice but I just don't want to rip RealAlienX's idea. That's why everything comes as bits and pieces.

1. I hope RealAlienX will read this thread and incoorperate some changes. 2. Ok the starticon works this way. Any idea about the windowicon? 3. Ok now its fine. 4. I didn't want to offend you with the link to the tutorial. I agree with you that Kdialog is more than sufficient. I though on RealAlienXs arguments concering an editor - thats why I made this suggestion. 5. See 1. So RealAlienX please update ;-)