Bug 272377

Summary:	Request: method for saving and retrieving notes
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Heath Matlock <heathmatlock>
Component:	widget-notes	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alvanx, kde, nandou, rshah0385
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	301581

Description Heath Matlock 2011-05-03 22:45:50 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

I want a method for storing of notes. I recently lost notes that were stored in the notes widget. When I switched to the Search and Launch layout for the desktop, the notes icon apparently was still shown. But I didn't see it behind the add widgets view. I was attempting to add some notes to the view, I realized that I couldn't drag the icon onto the desktop, but if I left clicked, it seemingly did something. When I clsoed the view, there there was a notes widget there. Little did I know it was my huge list of notes, I deleted it, thinking it was the notes widget I just created. If we could retrieve saved notes, this wouldn't have been a problem.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Heath Matlock 2011-05-07 00:47:12 UTC

See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272373
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I found out through random chance that the desktop was in some odd activities view. I was able to reset it by restarting X and also I could have gotten it back to the default view by using some odd shortcut meta+tab which is a default shortcut for "Next Activity." Odd, because I was attempting to switch using the Desktop Settings menu, adjusting the Layout option with no luck.
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And the notes widget was restored as well, but I still would like some option to save. Where are the notes for the notes widget saved by default?

Comment 2 Marcel Dischinger 2011-05-10 20:48:26 UTC

It is saved in 
~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2013-06-04 14:42:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 309136 ***

Comment 4 Benjamin M 2013-06-04 16:46:47 UTC

It's not strictly a duplicate of bug 309136. That feature request talks about exporting notes. This bug complains that content is lost because the notes are saved in plasma-desktop-appletsrc in a non-restorible way, rather than in an external location (like, e.g. the comic plasmoid is set up to do).

Comment 5 David Edmundson 2013-06-04 16:52:05 UTC

Comment #2 on this bug
He found the notes that were "lost" then says
>  I still would like some option to save

Other bug: 
> (I want to) Save note content to file