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The problem is that some people get rid of their .documents/ folder, and I really do not want to start messing with the user's "play-pen".

I would suggest that for people who want to use their clippings outside of Quick Clip, they should change their path.

One more d-pad request. Different people have different preferences, but I prefer page-by-page scrolling instead of line by line. (I've implemented this in microb using instructions found here.) So might we have two choices in the preferences?

A minor suggestion: In QC Viewer, the name of the program plus the path to the file take up so much space that the title bar never quite shows the name of the particular file. Maybe you could abbreviate "Quick Clip Viewer" to "QCV" in the title bar and/or eliminate the path.

Also, I'm sure you'd do it if you could, but it would be nice if Quick Clip Viewer loaded faster.

I'll think about it. I can probably drop Quick Clip Viewer, but the path is trickier.

Python sucks the memory down pretty good. I know there is like a Python-Loaded program out there that is supposed to speed it up, but there is nothing I can do on my end (QCV is very simple, only ~200 lines).

It also helps to have swap enabled.

I just promoted Quick Clip to Maemo-Extras; you all should see it as updatable or installable (if you don't have it installed).

The version is 0.3.1 now, the new release doesn't change anything concerning the program, but more to do with packaging (nicer name in Application manager, reboot warning, etc.).

Enjoy.

Hmm, do you know if there's anyway to get the default file manager to recognize folders with a . in them? If not I guess I'll just change the folder.

I was thinking over the weekend about the probably little-noticed del.icio.us status bar plugin (see also post #8 in that thread). I really like this little thing. But it lacks a crucial element: you can't save text to delicious, just the name at the top of a webpage (e.g, for this page this would be, "Quick Clip 0.2 Released! - Page 7...") and the url of the page (which you highlight before tapping the plugin).

Conversely, the thing I miss the most with QC is the ability to stamp clipped text with the url associated with the page whose text I'm saving.

Now, I'm not saying that QC should be integrated with the delicious plugin (although that, if it could be done, would be KILLER!). I'm just wondering if there is any transparent coding in the delicious plugin that could help you add a url stamp to text clipped from a website. Clearly, this would probably only work for microb, as I think I tried the delicious plugin with tear and it didn't work. (It saved the highlighted url, but failed to rip the page's title.)

Anyway, just some random thoughts about possible ways of expanding QC's functionality.

What you're describing is a lot like Tomfox, a Firefox add-on for Tomboy.

"Tomfox is a simple Add-on to Firefox (for Linux only), that allows users of Firefox to select text from a web page, right click to bring up a contextual menu, and with one more click, create a new Tomboy note. This note, once created, will have the name of the web page as the note name, will include a link back to the page at the end of the text, and will include all the text you had highlighted."

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...for_linux.html


While we don't have Tomfox for the Tablet, we have Quick Clip and proto-Conboy, which is to be Tomboy for Tablets.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...d.php?p=276087

So maybe someday ...

Yes, but I was suggesting something less ambitions: I was pointing to an already existing status bar plugin that rips TWO elements of a webpage and puts them in one location. Right now I'll be happy of Quick Clip could clip BOTH highlighted text AND a URL stamp.

To address this, yes, tear's kinetic is faster and less suitable for continuous reading-while-scrolling. But QC's scrolling, while suitable for reading, is horrendously slow for navigating through past clips to find the one you want to read. Whenever I need to read a clip from, say, a week ago, I have to use the notes editor instead of the built-in viewer, because the viewer is so slow. But I don't want to edit, I want to VIEW the old clip!