bug#16992: Feature request

bug#16992: Feature request

[David Englund]

GNU Emacs cannot use background images AFAIK or anyone in #emacs at 
freenode.net for that matter. However, this can be done in XEmacs.

Can you please add this feature to people can personalize GNU Emacs with 
photos as desktop background of their beloved ones when they work.?


Best regards!

bug#16992: Feature request

[Glenn Morris]

David Englund wrote:

> GNU Emacs cannot use background images AFAIK

I think there was a patch for this some years ago, but it was never
integrated (?). See eg

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-06/msg00485.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-08/msg00237.html

Maybe someone would like to resurrect it.


PS Please use a more meaningful subject line in future.

bug#16992: Feature request

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> David Englund wrote:
>
>> GNU Emacs cannot use background images AFAIK
>
> I think there was a patch for this some years ago, but it was never
> integrated (?). See eg
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-06/msg00485.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-08/msg00237.html
>
> Maybe someone would like to resurrect it.

It's apparently being kept up to date:

https://github.com/wachikun/emacs_bgex

Unfortunately all the text surrounding it, and even the doc strings are
in Japanese, so reviewing the code is difficult.

I've Cc'd the author of bgex, because it would be nice to have
backgrounds in Emacs windows.

Tadashi -- would you be interested in integrating the code into Emacs?
If that's the case, translating it into English would be a useful first
step.

-- 
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bug#20647: bug#16992: feature request: background images

[Stefan Kangas]

Hi Tadashi Watanabe,

I noticed that you have recently updated your e-mail address in the
bgex.el file on https://github.com/wachikun/emacs_bgex

We have discussed if it would be possible to integrate the "bgex" patch
into Emacs itself.  We think the feature is useful.  Would you be
interested in that?

See the previous discussion below, or here:

    https://debbugs.gnu.org/20647

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> David Englund wrote:
>>
>>> GNU Emacs cannot use background images AFAIK
>>
>> I think there was a patch for this some years ago, but it was never
>> integrated (?). See eg
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-06/msg00485.html
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-08/msg00237.html
>>
>> Maybe someone would like to resurrect it.
>
> It's apparently being kept up to date:
>
> https://github.com/wachikun/emacs_bgex
>
> Unfortunately all the text surrounding it, and even the doc strings are
> in Japanese, so reviewing the code is difficult.
>
> I've Cc'd the author of bgex, because it would be nice to have
> backgrounds in Emacs windows.
>
> Tadashi -- would you be interested in integrating the code into Emacs?
> If that's the case, translating it into English would be a useful first
> step.

bug#20647: bug#16992: feature request: background images

[Stefan Kangas]

[Please use "Reply to all" so the discussion is in the bug tracker.]

Hi Tadashi Watanabe,

tadashi watanabe <twacc2020@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Stefan Kangas,
>
> Thanks for the email.
>
> I'm translating the document into English and refactoring it as well. I'll
> post it to GitHub soon.
>
> It would be nice to see it integrated into Emacs, but the code is quite
> different from the standard Emacs code when I look at it after a while..

Once it is translated, we will be able to provide feedback and hopefully
we should be able to fix up any issues.

Please let us know when you have posted it, and thanks for working on
this.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#20647: bug#16992: feature request: background images

[tadashi watanabe]

Hi Stefan Kangas,

I have translated the following and pushed it to GitHub.
(This is a machine translation, so there may be some strange parts)

https://github.com/wachikun/emacs_bgex/blob/master/bgex.el
https://github.com/wachikun/emacs_bgex/blob/master/bgex_memo_en.txt