PyRoom
In the latest LugRadio episode[1], One Foot In The Grave, Matt (who returned briefly on the show) and Aq were talking about a programme they both forgot the name of. It was a text editor, as simple as possible, without formatting, without menu, without toolbar, that pops up full screen to allow you to focus only on writing, and writing itself.
It was for the Macs.
And you could by it for 24.95 USD.
Ironically, a few days before the show release, schwuk did mention the said software and I could remember its name: WriteRoom.
Right after this blog post, I made a few research on ubuntuforums and found a Python script, published under the terms of the GPL (v3), a single 20 kB file that could do quite the same things.
I had a look at it, and I told myself that one could make a complete and standalone application, including translations, preferences configuration panel, customisation, etc... And... why not packaging it for Ubuntu, huh?
Now... Here we are... introducing... PyRoom!!!
Obviously, the available code is widely identical to the one composed by "Nowhereman" and Nicolas Rougier, but I do hope I'll make progress in PyGTK, and I'll try to bring significant improvements to this project, to build a tool actually usable by everyone.
By the way, any kind of contribution is welcome ; as well as bits of code, or translations in "any languages of the world", and you can submit suggestions / remarks / tests / bugs reports via Launchpad bug interface[2]
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Notes :
1 - By the way, during this episode, one knows that I've won a collector Lugradio shirt.
2 - please be nice, I've got a lot to learn about this topic...