From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: A bright new Org-mode clone project Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:32:23 +0200 Message-ID: <39352EF0-2FF1-4CA7-84A3-F2F56EB92A44@gmail.com> References: <877horvzr1.fsf@z.nozav.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxZUe-0005OB-BT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:32:32 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35593 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxZUc-0005O3-JR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:32:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxZUb-0006af-1K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:32:30 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com ([209.85.219.218]:57050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxZUa-0006aE-Gy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:32:28 -0400 Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so570489ewy.32 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:32:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877horvzr1.fsf@z.nozav.org> 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: Julien Barnier Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - Carsten