Hi list, well i don't know if this mail is appropriate here but still, i needed help from the Linux community, so here goes: Keynote is a Tabbed notebook and personal information manager, with tree structure and strong encryption; its open source and its free. (free as in free beer as well as free as in freedom :) More info about it here: http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html The only problem being its available exclusively for windows and the author states some reasons why he will not be writing one on the Linux platform. Its written in Borland Delphi and I already have the Delphi code from the website mentioned above. Also, the development of this software was ceased after version 2.0. I want to know if it is possible to convert Delphi code such that it can be compiled on Linux with the same functionality. Reason: I have loads of important documents in its native file format; so even though i found one almost similar personal information management tool for linux (a KDE project; http://basket.kde.org/ ) that i can happily use but it can't solve my problem of reading that enormous amount of encrypted data i have in native keynote file format. Besides i really liked the way keynote swiftly handles any kind of information, a really handy tool. [Please check out its website] I am willing to port that code to Linux no matter what it takes, but... i really don't know where to begin [considering i am not a professional programmer], i need help. _Any_ help here?
Regards.
On 10/24/07, Kamaleshwar Morjal [कमलेश्वर मोरजाल] kamaleshwar.morjal@gmail.com wrote:
Hi list, well i don't know if this mail is appropriate here but still, i needed help from the Linux community, so here goes: Keynote is a Tabbed notebook and personal information manager, with tree structure and strong encryption; its open source and its free. (free as in free beer as well as free as in freedom :) More info about it here: http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Earlier I used the outline mode in Emacs, but now I switched to another mode in Emacs called org mode. This is out of the world product inheriting all the power of emacs and is simply a great app.
ust try this out. It is an outliner, office application. I write essays, books, plan, agenda items, tables, spreadsheets, track progress and everything. This also keeps the data always in text mode, but interpreted neatly and very fast at the run time. Encryption is always possible in Emacs using gpg, which applies to this as well. It exports the files into html, latex, and others. Considering that it is one of the recent Emacs apps it is gaining more userbase and soon more features will be available.
read more about it from orgmode.org. If you want graphical applications consider vym and kdissert.
Nagarjuna
On 10/25/07, Nagarjuna G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:
On 10/24/07, Kamaleshwar Morjal [कमलेश्वर मोरजाल] kamaleshwar.morjal@gmail.com wrote:
Keynote is a Tabbed notebook and personal information manager, with tree structure and strong encryption; its open source and its free. (free as in free beer as well as free as in freedom :) More info about it here: http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Earlier I used the outline mode in Emacs, but now I switched to another mode in Emacs called org mode. This is out of the world product inheriting all the power of emacs and is simply a great app.
ust try this out. It is an outliner, office application. I write essays, books, plan, agenda items, tables, spreadsheets, track progress and everything. This also keeps the data always in text mode, but interpreted neatly and very fast at the run time. Encryption is always possible in Emacs using gpg, which applies to this as well. It exports the files into html, latex, and others. Considering that it is one of the recent Emacs apps it is gaining more userbase and soon more features will be available.
read more about it from orgmode.org. If you want graphical applications consider vym and kdissert.
Thank you very much for replying. Will surely try out the above mentioned softwares but as i said, i have lot of data in the keynote's native file format; can the above mentioned editors be extended easily to support more open file formats?
Thanks and regards.
On 10/25/07, Kamaleshwar Morjal [कमलेश्वर मोरजाल] kamaleshwar.morjal@gmail.com wrote:
Hi list,
I am willing to port that code to Linux no matter what it takes, but... i really don't know where to begin [considering i am not a professional programmer], i need help. _Any_ help here?
Kylix was the delphi's port of it windows libraries to linux. However i think its closed source.
Opensource equivalent - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(software)
However you should consider separating the delphi dependent code and use open source equivalents ( or better ) for the same api calls.
Its tough work no doubt ( not all migrations are made in heaven ! ), but something that will get you going farther than you intended.
regards, C
Regards.
-- "A Smooth Sea Never Made A Skillful Mariner" (So nice and true) kamaleshwar morjal (कमलेश्वर मोरजाल)
On 10/25/07, Chetan S cshring@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/25/07, Kamaleshwar Morjal [कमलेश्वर मोरजाल] kamaleshwar.morjal@gmail.com wrote:
I am willing to port that code to Linux no matter what it takes, but... i really don't know where to begin [considering i am not a professional programmer], i need help. _Any_ help here?
Kylix was the delphi's port of it windows libraries to linux. However i think its closed source.
Opensource equivalent - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(software)
Thanks a ton. That sure gives me the hope to get off the ground.
However you should consider separating the delphi dependent code and use open source equivalents ( or better ) for the same api calls.
Its tough work no doubt ( not all migrations are made in heaven ! ), but something that will get you going farther than you intended.
This should get me going, but i was wondering if there was someone on this list whose working on similar lines and can afford to look a bit deeper into this matter.. Nevertheless, thank you very much for your response. :) Kind regards.
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Nagarjuna G.