From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlef Steuer Subject: Re: A bright new Org-mode clone project Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:46:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20100401194628.049cea79@linux.site> References: <877horvzr1.fsf@z.nozav.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxORB-0004Kc-CX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:44:13 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32840 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxORA-0004KU-6u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:44:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxOR4-0003Xa-Mc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:44:12 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxOR4-0003XW-Bn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:44:06 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxOR0-000345-K5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:44:02 +0200 Received: from e176074238.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.176.74.238]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:44:02 +0200 Received: from detlef.steuer by e176074238.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:44:02 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org .... there must be something special with today ... :-) nice one Detlef On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:39:14 +0200 Julien Barnier wrote: > Dear org-moders, > > Today is quite a special day for me, and for many of org-mode users I > think, because I'm going to introduce a project that, I believe, could > really help to promote and transform org-mode as a major killer-app. > > It has been a long time since I think about it, but now I am going to > fork the org-mode project. I say "fork", but I should better say > "clone", because the idea is to reimplement org-mode from scratch > while keeping the same features, and much more. > > Why restart from scratch ? Because I think that org-mode should be > easier to install and run on different OSes. That's why I'm going to > rewrite it in C#/Mono : this will assure that the new project can run on > every machine you can think about, and it would be much lighter on > resources (especially memory) than Emacs. > > Another major change from the current org-mode will be the shortcuts > and general organization of the interface. Because Emacs keys are > really to complicated and quite outdated, I'm going to reimplement > org-mode with a modern graphical interface, which would be almost > exclusively mouse driven. I also plan to add some 3D compiz-like > effects that would allow some text animation or blinking in order to > make tags and keywords more visible. > > As you see, the project is already quite advanced and mature. The last > thing I have to do is to find a name for it. I was thinking of > "smog-mode", or maybe "frog-mode", but I'm open to any suggestion. > > And, of course, feel free to join your forces to this bright new > project ! > > Sincerely, > > -- > Julien > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >