Re: org-icons package

[Renzo Been <swangdoodles@gmail.com>]

Oké Dan,

Understood. That sounds right; to move all the code into the
org-icons.el file. That way the patch is no longer needed, and
org-icons can live in the contrib dir (together with a directory for
the images).

I think its best if I make a fork of your repo. That gives me some
space for working on the code. Once I have made some progress (I won't
be very fast...), I will send you a Pull request.

The changes that you have made until now, are found here:
https://github.com/dandavison/org-devel/tree/org-icons/contrib/org-icons
Right?

Your right, org-icons is a nice way to change the looks of org
buffers. I'll go through the code first, to get an understanding of
what can be done.

Ciao,
Renzo

On 18 August 2011 22:48, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Renzo,
> org-icons needs to be moved into contrib/, hooked in via a lightweight patch
> against org.el, instead of being implemented as a monolithic change to
> org.el. I made a start on that in this branch:
> https://github.com/dandavison/org-devel/tree/org-icons
> but I'm not sure that I got very far. Note that that is a branch in a clone
> of the org repo, as opposed to the org-icons repos which are standalone
> repos and do not contain org.
> I thought org-icons was interesting because it offers the possibility of
> allowing users to make arbitrary superficial changes to org aesthetics. For
> example, the #+begin_src...#+end_src boilerplate is rather heavy for some
> peoples' tastes. At one point I had it replacing that with a little (ruby,
> snake) for (ruby, python) code... But I think it also allows the possibility
> of overlaying with text. I'd be happy to give you push access to that repo,
> but, you may as well just fork it as I have no plans to work on it.
> I don't know how to contact Nicolas. I believe that he is on record as
> saying he did not plan to develop org-icons further.
> Good luck,
> Dan