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Mind Mapping for Ubuntu

I'm a fan of mind mapping. I have been for quite a few years now. Since I don't consider it worthy of $$$, I've always used FreeMind. I first saw it reviewed on SourceForge a few years ago when it won Project of the Month.

I was just assigned a writing assignment at work and as a result, decided to map out my thoughts on the subject before committing anything to XML (we use DITA). Naturally, I turned to FreeMind. However, as soon as I installed it, I remembered how awkward it really is. It suffers from feature bloat. Too much stuff crammed into a Java app = slow and buggy. So, I removed it (thank you, Ubuntu) and installed Labyrinth instead. I use Gnome so a pure Gnome+Python+Cairo app seems like a decent choice.

After applying a small patch (shown below), it worked beautifully. Simple, elegant, and just what I needed. Thank you Open Source Community.

Patching Labyrinth for Ubuntu 9.04:
Error:
   File "/usr/bin/labyrinth", line 40, in 
     import utils
 ImportError: No module named utils

From launchpad Bug 327174:
In jaunty we're using python2.6, so changing line 40 to:
sys.path.insert(0, abspath("/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/labyrinth"))
and installing python-numeric should fix all problems. Its running here.
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