Sakura

How can I contribute?

Asked by Heon Jeong

Hi, I'm using sakura+dwm with great happiness, and added some local features on my own, in http://github.com/blmarket/sakura.git

my patches are so hardcoded ones(so it's bad idea to just merge it, i know..), but if you're ok with adding these features, I'd like to write some generalized patches.

* Auto font size configuration : using sakura with dwm, I thought it would be nicer if its font size get changes by its own window size. e.g) use ubuntu mono 13 if current window is larger than 800x600, otherwise use ubuntu mono 8.
* Open in a new window : dwm gives a shortcut to spawn a new terminal, but it's PWD is always my home directory, which can be painful to traverse again into my real working path. if sakura gives 'Open in a new window' feature just like open a new terminal on new tab, this painful 'cd'ing will be gone. e.g) Ctrl+Shift+N creates new window like gnome-terminal.

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Best David Gómez (dabisu) said : 		#1

Hello Heon Jeong, i'm glad that you like sakura!

You can contribute picking one of the bugs currently in launchpad and working on it. Just to be sure work doesn't overlap, assign the bug to yourself or write something in the bug comments.

About your patch, i would think of adding the first one as an option when you have some patch at hand. It maybe useful to some users. I don't promise you anything, i need to see the actual patch.

About the second one (new window) that was a option in sakura before 3.0, but i decided to remove it. In my opinion, an application shouldn't launch itself. That's a task for the window-manager/desktop launcher.

Thanks for your comments!

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Heon Jeong (blmarket) said : 		#2

I got it. Thanks for replying.

I agree someone think it's wrong if application launches itself, but there's no good way that WM/Launcher to know terminal's current working path. but whatever..

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David Gómez (dabisu) said : 		#3

For example, in Gnome Ctrl+Alt+T is the default keybinding for launching the terminal application. You can set the terminal application to sakura, or define a keybinding of your own.