From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Barnier Subject: A bright new Org-mode clone project Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:39:14 +0200 Message-ID: <877horvzr1.fsf@z.nozav.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxOMg-0001Pt-Lx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:39:34 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58208 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxOMe-0001Nv-UB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:39:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxOMa-0002xR-Ud for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:39:31 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxOMa-0002xH-Od for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:39:28 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxOMY-0000gx-OO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:39:26 +0200 Received: from z.nozav.org ([91.121.121.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:39:26 +0200 Received: from julien by z.nozav.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:39:26 +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 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