Hi list, I (and friends attributed in the LXTerminal about dialog) received a thank-you letter from a 16-year old user and a prospective contributor, and here it is:
----- Forwarded message from Shadman Ahmmed <shadmanahm...@gmail.com> ----- On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 01:05:19PM +0600, Shadman Ahmmed wrote: > Yeah that is right, I do love your Terminal emulator it's great because, > its lightweight, smooth, fast and fells better than Gnome terminal on > nux Mint 18. I did use the Rasbian OS which comes preinstalled with the > LXTerminal on my Raspberry Pi 3 and I was thinking of any other terminal > to replace the Gnome Terminal on my Linux Mint 18. I used KDE before so > I installed Konsole but it looked a bit awkward with the Cinnamon > desktop. I was wondering will I start a project to write my own > Terminal emulator ? Just then I saw that Linux Mint also had a terminal > called LXTerminal and when I used it, I was impressed. Great work guys > and if you feel like I can contribute some codes or ideas then please > reply. And by the way my name is Shadman Ahmmed, I am 16 years old, I > know Python, HTML. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Yao Wei <m...@lxde.org> wrote: > Hi Shadman, > > We are excited to hear your ambition! > > If you are willing to learn C, you are welcomed to join (or fork to make > your own) LXTerminal project currently hosted at: > https://git.lxde.org/lxde/lxterminal > or our mirror (actually I accept issue reports or merge requests [1] > there): > https://github.com/lxde/lxterminal > > But before that you might want to learn how Git works (many projects and > companies, including Linux kernel, Android, GNOME, and of course we, are > using that). It is helpful if you want to write code without leaving > many copies for your history, and great for us to cowork on the same > project. > > Also, making a terminal emulator from Python is possible if you want to. > You can try using Python VTE bindings to craft your own terminal. > (LXTerminal also uses VTE under the hood, but our code is in C.) > > Would you mind showing up in our mailing list? (Note that your name will > be exposed too.) I want to forward your email to our mailing list > because there are many other active maintainers of LXDE and LXQt out > there. > > [1]: When someone else (or you) changes our code and wants us to combine > their code into ours, it is called "merge request". On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 09:33:36AM +0600, Shadman Ahmmed wrote: > Great ! I would love to be on your mailing list. And sorry but I've got > IGCSE this January so maybe I won't be able to code these few months but > after that I would love to work with you guys. ----- End forwarded message -----
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