From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Julien Barnier <julien@no-log.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A bright new Org-mode clone project
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:32:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39352EF0-2FF1-4CA7-84A3-F2F56EB92A44@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877horvzr1.fsf@z.nozav.org>
:-) This was fun, thanks!
- Carsten
On Apr 1, 2010, at 7:39 PM, 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 really to complicated and quite outdated, I'm going to reimplement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
>
>
>
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- Carsten
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-01 17:39 A bright new Org-mode clone project Julien Barnier
2010-04-01 17:46 ` Detlef Steuer
2010-04-02 4:15 ` Daniel Goldin
2010-04-01 18:18 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2010-04-01 19:05 ` Eric Schulte
2010-04-01 19:05 ` J. David Boyd
2010-04-01 19:36 ` Matt Lundin
2010-04-01 21:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-04-01 23:22 ` Adam
2010-04-02 5:32 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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