What happened to KNotes?

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I’ve been using the KNotes application for ages. In a recent update, the application was removed from my computer and it no longer appears in the standard repositories. Is it gone forever? If it is, is there a good replacement?

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  • Remove QDBusInterface about knotes
  • knotes is dead now
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I’m not a KNotes user, but maybe BasKet might be a viable alternative for you? It is available from the KDE-Extra repo.

https://userbase.kde.org/BasKet
https://basket-notepads.github.io/

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1195575  State:accepted   By:anag+factory When:2024-08-26T20:05:21
        Created by: krop
        delete:                                                             openSUSE:Factory/knotes
        Review by User       is accepted:  licensedigger(licensedigger)                      
        Review by User       is accepted:  factory-auto(factory-auto)                        
        Review by Group      is accepted:  factory-staging(anag+factory)                     
        Review by Project    is accepted:  openSUSE:Factory:Staging:J(anag+factory)          
        Descr: Now unmaintained upstream
        Comment: Staging Project openSUSE:Factory:Staging:J got accepted.

Of course not. Step in as maintainer or find someone willing to maintain it and it will be accepted back again.

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https://software.opensuse.org/package/knotes

Available with KDE:Unstable:Applications.

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Instead of linking to an unstable third party repo which ships a dead package, one could point out that knotes is archived and no longer provided and maintained by KDE. This 3rd party repo ships an old version of knotes.

That means: no bugfixes, no security updates, nothing…
The project is dead upstream.

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Take a look to notejot " A Sticky Note App" available in tumbleweed (OSS)

Regards

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Here on Leap 15.6, it’s still around –

 > rpm --query --changelog knotes
* Di Mär 26 2024 Christophe Marin <christophe@krop.fr>
- Update to 23.08.5
  * New bugfix release
  * For more details please see:
  * https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.5/
- Changes since 23.08.4:
  * snapcraft: Initial import snapcraft files.

* Di Dez 05 2023 Christophe Marin <christophe@krop.fr>
- Update to 23.08.4
  * New bugfix release
  * For more details please see:
  * https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.4/
- No code change since 23.08.3

And, there’s still some KDE activity going on – possibly with some porting to KDE Plasma 6 (Qt6) – <KNotes>

Screenshot_20240830_163108

But they’re not really being reflected in the Git activity – <https://github.com/KDE/knotes/graphs/commit-activity>

Code frequency:

Screenshot_20240830_163409
Screenshot_20240830_1634091243×806 37.7 KB

Commit activity:

Screenshot_20240830_163514
Screenshot_20240830_1635141243×766 18.2 KB

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knotes is unmaintained and the gitlab project got archived and is unwritable. This is clearly visible by browsing the github project. There is a big fat header on top of the gitlab page.

knotes got removed from Tumbleweed and factory due to the fact, that knotes is only available up to Plasma version 6.1.2 but Tumbleweed is already at 6.1.4

The last available version is for KDE 6.1.2

Due to the above mentioned facts, it is clear that knotes is still available for Leap (as they use an older KDE version 5.27.x) but not for an actual distribution with actual Plasma.

The above screenshots also states clearly, that the monthly release cycle for knotes ended in July this year. Afterwards there is no new release of knotes due to the fact that is no longer maintained and provided by KDE.

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Looking at the Git activity, there seems to be some porting being done to KDE Plasma 6 (Qt6) but no indication if that code has been released –
<https://invent.kde.org/utilities/basket/activity>
<https://invent.kde.org/utilities/basket>

I’ve dropped a question into the KDE Discuss Forum asking for a current working view of the BasKet status – <https://discuss.kde.org/t/basket-a-note-taking-application-current-situation/20690>

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Fork:

But ILL it is not actively maintained…

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Not sure what you’re asking here. It is available as already mentioned. Whether or not it is considered a replacement is down to individual users needs.

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There are a couple of replies in the Discuss forum –

I think BasKet has not seen a lot of development lately, but it may still suit your needs. You could also check out Marknote (Office / Marknote · GitLab) It can import from KNotes.

Marknote appears to be the drop-in replacement for Obsidian (which isn’t FOSS)… and is in my repos, so possibly in yours too… but it’s very basic, and apart from being able to change font size in the reader pane, the app refused to apply any font I selected in the preferences pane…

Therefore, it seems that, KDE Plasma is currently missing a good quality Sticky (yellow) Notes application …

  • I’m possibly wrong but, that’s my current working view.

BTW, I’ve removed the Plasma 5 KNotes packages from my Leap 15.6 system and, cleaned up everything KNotes related the ‘~/.config/’ and ‘~/.local/share/’ – the thing began to be unstable in an absolutely horrible way – it tried to import all my Local e-Mail Folders as Notes …

  • I had to run “akonadictl vacuum” to get rid of the following “akonadictl fsck” report –

Found 1 orphan resources: akonadi_akonotes_resource_1

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Plasma 6 and Plasma 5 have a built in Sticky note applet.
Right click desktop → Add widgets → Sticky note

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Don’t even come up with that. “Unstable” has a meaning, right?

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I have no need for it, but as hui mentioned there is the Sticky Note widget (easily added if you search for it).

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Yeah I saw this getting removed in an update. Just wanted to check what’s going on. Just letting you guys know.

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Well that’s what the OP mentioned at the start of this topic. The discussion has progressed form there.

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Yeah I am aware. Just reporting in.

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FYI – there’s also this KDE Discuss forums thread – <Knotes seems discontinued: what to do?>

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