Bug#861124: RFP: elpa-writeroom-mode -- distraction-free writing for Emacs
On 2017-04-24 20:37:20, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> control: owner -1
> control: retitle -1 ITP: elpa-writeroom-mode -- distraction-free writing for Emacs
>
> Hi Antoine,
>
> I've been using a moderately customised local copy of writeroom-mode
> forked from upstream many years ago, so of course I'd love to maintain
> an official elpafied Debian package of it. :-)
Well, the RFP was for the official version of course. :p But I guess it
would be fine if your improvements are packaged as well!
> How responsive is upstream to patches?
Pretty responsive, I'd say. If you look at the Github pull request list:
https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode/pulls?q=is%3Apr
... you'll see they have all been merged as is.
https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode/pulse/monthly
... although the project is not very active, but that's fine with me.
I have specifically requested two things, which got more or less
implemented completely:
https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode/issues/22
https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode/issues/24
> I find it really useful to remove the fringes and margins when going
> from fullscreen to windowed, and to have modeline enabled for
> fullscreen, for battery status, clock, word count, etc, but to have
> these disabled for windowed.
That seems completely counter-intuitive to me, but I guess if those are
made into separate modes, that should be fine. :)
> One of my other little personal projects is to change the font size
> when going between windowed and fullscreen.
That seems like a good idea - a separate effect too?
> Do you know if tiling WMs provide the necessary netwm hints for these
> to work properly?
Depends on the WMs. My experience with Xmonad so far has not been very
positive. I had to create a custom effect for fullscreen and the tiling
mode. I documented the sticky part here:
https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2017-April/015260.html
The fullscreen part is better supported, but oddly a signal is missing
on writeroom's side, which is documented in issue #22 above...
Anwyays, this is all stuff that should be discussed in the upstream
trackers, and not necessarily here. I think we should try to follow
upstream as closely as possible here and get patches merged back
upstream.
So I encourage you to submit pull requests and issues for the things you
feel need to change in writeroom. So far, I have managed to use it
without patching it, and that is why I would like it to be packaged as
is in Debian.
I'd be happy to help you with the packaging if you need that or upload
if you need a sponsor or co-maintain if you're open to that. ;)
Otherwise, please go ahead and package this, it's great that someone is
stepping up so quickly to volunteer!
Thanks,
A.
PS: nice to see you here Nicholas :)
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