Sticky notes contents on gnome-applets 3.18 in Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

I am affected by the same too.
David

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More details: trying to downgrade to applets version 3.14 still does not solve the problem. And in the "Preferences" menu the setting for the directory/files where notes are saved does not appear anymore, as it did in Ubuntu 14.04. No such setting entry appears in dconf or gconf for sticky-notes applet neither.
Really nobody has an idea why?
Florin

It seems absurd that an applet intended for 16.04 that worked in 14.04 is
a) allowed to lapse because of inactivity while Open !!!
b) Has no reference to it as in Florin's post above
and all Ubuntu do is 'forget about it'.

This is an LTS release and surely such a bug deserves attention?

I am not a developer / programmer - what do you expect to happen while it is Open that would result in some interest in solving this?

That is my opinion too. I've also posted to the gnome developers list because of that lack of activity, and still didn't receive any answer.
Actually I haven't notice any activity on the gnome-devel mailing list in the last month. Would that mean people lost interest in developing gnome? Looks like a lot of things are going in the wrong direction with gnome. The new gnome shell loses more functionality than it adds: no applets, pain in the a** to add menus, no proper desktop drawing, all it does is to bring a tablet style interface not very useful without a touch screen.
I have the same objections on Windows 8 to 10, so if they started it wrong, why should Gnome people follow them? It seems all I used to like in Gnome, flexibility in configuration and look, is going away, only partially kept in gnome-flashback which is not much supported now. But the reaction speed of the interface becomes slower and slower with every update.
No wonder that Mandriva people, now Mageia, moved away from Gnome to KDE (myself, I migrated from Mandriva to Ubuntu because they still had Gnome in the standard distribution)

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Infuriating.

This has obviously closed by a robot program as nobody responded to the last 4 posts.

Unless 'you' interact with us

1) you alienate us
2) we can not provide information you require
3) we do not know what is going on re the bug

and worst of all

you assume inactivity on a thread means
1) there is no bug or
2) it does not attract sufficient interest to fix it or
3) you ignore the fact that if only one person reports a bug it may still be extremely harmful - just that nobody else has identified it.

This leads to a downhill slope.

I am willing to fix it myself, it is obviously a bug. But if people who know how the sticky notes saving mechanism works don't bother even to give a short answer, I won't fix it, cause I don't have so much time to spend reading all the sources related to sticky notes applet.

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