Dear All,
I has become apparent that Geany has moved away from its roots as a lightweight, low overhead editor for small computers. It is therefore proposed to fork Geany to return to its roots and pursue alternate user communities.
The intention of the fork will be to shrink Geany as small as possible to target the neglected niche of wearable computers. In support of this Geany will be adapted to operate off head mounted accelerometer inputs allowing user input by inclining of the head. The lack of screens will of course require voice output to be added as well.
I do hope that many developers will join in this exciting and innovative development of :
Whiny Teany Weany Beany Leany Geany.
Cheers Lex 1 April (AEDT)
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:56:15 +1100, Lex wrote:
Dear All,
I has become apparent that Geany has moved away from its roots as a lightweight, low overhead editor for small computers. It is therefore proposed to fork Geany to return to its roots and pursue alternate user communities.
The intention of the fork will be to shrink Geany as small as possible to target the neglected niche of wearable computers. In support of this Geany will be adapted to operate off head mounted accelerometer inputs allowing user input by inclining of the head. The lack of screens will of course require voice output to be added as well.
I do hope that many developers will join in this exciting and innovative development of :
Whiny Teany Weany Beany Leany Geany.
I totally second this idea!
Let's make a new, shiny, tiny little Geany without that many features, without highlighting, without tag parsing and all that useless stuff.
Oh, wait, this already exists and is called Notepad.
Regards, Enrico
2011/4/1 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de:
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:56:15 +1100, Lex wrote:
Dear All,
I has become apparent that Geany has moved away from its roots as a lightweight, low overhead editor for small computers. It is therefore proposed to fork Geany to return to its roots and pursue alternate user communities.
The intention of the fork will be to shrink Geany as small as possible to target the neglected niche of wearable computers. In support of this Geany will be adapted to operate off head mounted accelerometer inputs allowing user input by inclining of the head. The lack of screens will of course require voice output to be added as well.
I do hope that many developers will join in this exciting and innovative development of :
Whiny Teany Weany Beany Leany Geany.
I totally second this idea!
Let's make a new, shiny, tiny little Geany without that many features, without highlighting, without tag parsing and all that useless stuff.
Or better still, maybe we run on this
http://www.zdnet.com.au/rim-debuts-screenless-blackberry-339312385.htm
won't need those dependencies on GTK or scintilla then :-)
Cheers Lex
Oh, wait, this already exists and is called Notepad.
Regards, Enrico
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:56:15 +1100 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
The intention of the fork will be to shrink Geany as small as possible to target the neglected niche of wearable computers. In support of this Geany will be adapted to operate off head mounted accelerometer inputs allowing user input by inclining of the head. The lack of screens will of course require voice output to be added as well.
I do hope that many developers will join in this exciting and innovative development of :
Whiny Teany Weany Beany Leany Geany.
Unfortunately I can't get behind this new effort as I want to use it on my washing machine and the vibrations will probably play badly with the accelerometer inputs. Instead input will be via the on/off switch using Morse code.
So I hereby announce a fork of the fork: Teany Weany Wishy Washy Geany
Regards, Nick
On Friday 01,April,2011 07:17 PM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:56:15 +1100 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
The intention of the fork will be to shrink Geany as small as possible to target the neglected niche of wearable computers. In support of this Geany will be adapted to operate off head mounted accelerometer inputs allowing user input by inclining of the head. The lack of screens will of course require voice output to be added as well.
I do hope that many developers will join in this exciting and innovative development of :
Whiny Teany Weany Beany Leany Geany.
Unfortunately I can't get behind this new effort as I want to use it on my washing machine and the vibrations will probably play badly with the accelerometer inputs. Instead input will be via the on/off switch using Morse code.
So I hereby announce a fork of the fork: Teany Weany Wishy Washy Geany
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