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 On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Renzo Been <swangdood...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dan, Nicolas and list, > > In my previous mail I wrote about using (and upgrading it for use with the > latest version of org-mode) Nicolas Girard's org-icons package, see: > http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.emacs.orgmode&article=44834 > > I've tried to contact Nicolas Girard (via e-mail and a google search). But > I > have not heard back from him as yet. > > When I checked the github for org-icons again I discovered that there was a > second branch by Dan Davison. > https://github.com/ngirard/org-icons/tree/dan > > Dan, > > Do you know how I can get in contact with Nicolas? Or do you have access to > the github for org-icons, so that it's code can be updated to work with the > latest version of org-mode? Did you and Nicolas ever think about including > org-icons into org-mode? > > As for me, I'm happily using org-icons with org-mode 7.7, I've attached a > new > and updated patch file that works on the latest org.el > > Copy the patch "org-icons.patch" to the directory where you keep your > "org.el" > cd to that directory > And then apply the patch like this: > patch -b org.el org-icons.patch > > Of-course, if neither of you has the time to work on org-icons... I could > make > a fork of the git repo, and make the changes myself. However, I do not have > much elisp knowledge... > > Ciao, > Renzo > > On 25 July 2011 12:12, Renzo Been <swangdood...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org> writes: > > >> Hi Philipp, > > >> Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter <at> gmx.de> writes: > > >> > Is there any particular reason for it to be hardcoded? Apart from the > >> > fact that /well it just is this way right now/ I mean. > > >> Nothing carved in stone, but here are the two reasons I see: > > >> - we don't want users to use arbitrary regexp to match headlines as they > >> are very likely to shoot themselves in the foot (Harven's example of > >> using "-" instead of "*" is a good example of that.) > > >> - Given this, I am not able to imagine a good way of limiting the number > >> of allowed characters. > > >> > That'd be useful information for anyone interested in changing it. > > >> I'd interested in any solution to the problems above. > > >> > Then > >> > you can still just tell them to write a patch if they care that much > >> > ('cause even in org-mode-land patches don't write themselves just yet) > > >> :) > > >> > [I just had the most awesome idea for a feature request]. > > >> Please share! > > >> > If it's "just" about inheriting from a variable in some 300 places it > >> > could at least be discussed. > > >> Yep -- if you have the energy to go through the code and see where it is > >> hardcoded while it should not, please do. > > >> Thanks, > > > Hi, > > > I was just thinking... If you want to change the "look" of the > > org-headlines. Does one really need to change the code? > > > I have been using Nicolas Girard's org-icons package for quite a while. > And > > that makes org-buffers look pretty nice. You can even customise the > icons, to > > make it look the way you want. > > > However, some things about the org-icons package... It seems to be a > little > > outdated. Are there many org-moders out there still using it? Were > there > > ever any plans to include it in the org-distribution? Right now it needs > to be > > installed by hand, because the patch to org.el is outdated... Also, I > need to > > load it two times in my .emacs before the icons work... > > > Ciao, > > Renzo > > > The org-icons can be found here: > > Download from Nicolas Girard's github > > http://github.com/ngirard/org-icons > > On the Worg site I could only find screenshots, no other information... > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-screenshots.html > > The list-message announcement for org-icons > > > http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87zl2962um.fsf%40stats.ox.ac.uk%3e > > And some list-messages discussing including the org-icons-patch into > org-mode > > > http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87zlbx3kvf.fsf%40kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ%3e >
