Just up­load­ed Mar­ave 0.5 to the usu­al place. Mar­ave is a re­laxed, fullscreen text ed­i­tor that tries not to dis­tract you.

It even in­cludes a sim­ple mu­sic play­er just so you don't have to think about switch­ing to an­oth­er ap­pli­ca­tion!

This re­lease has sev­er­al bugs fixed, and looks a bit nicer.

The main new fea­ture is ... in­ter­na­tion­al­iza­cion. It now in­cludes a span­ish trans­la­tion on­ly, but if you want to help trans­lat­ing it to any oth­er lan­guage, please step for­ward!

There are on­ly 60 phras­es to trans­late, so it should­n't be more than one hour of work.

Here's a screen­shot of this re­lease:

Mar­ave is free soft­ware un­der the GPLv2, and should work on any plat­form where PyQt work­s, which means Win­dows, Mac, and Unix-­like op­er­at­ing sys­tem­s, at least.

Ver­sion 0.4 of Mar­ave, a dis­trac­tion-free fullscreen ed­i­tor is out at http://­mar­ave.­google­code.­com

This ver­sion in­cludes sev­er­al bugs fixed and fea­tures im­ple­ment­ed since 0.4:

• It works bet­ter with Win­­dow­­Mak­er (di­alogs ap­­peared be­hind main win­­dow)

• Works bet­ter with some Qt styles (com­bo box­es were un­us­able)

• Added sup­­port for SVG back­­­grounds

• Code cleanups

Mar­ave is free soft­are re­leased un­der the GPL, and should work in all ma­jor desk­top plat­form­s.

I would love feed­back on this re­lease, as well as ideas for Mar­ave's fu­ture, so if you want to help, please join the mail­ing list:

http://­group­s.­google.­com/­group/­mar­ave-dis­cuss

Of course, if you like Mar­ave, feel free to give me mon­ey

Ver­sion 0.3 of Mar­ave, a dis­trac­tion-free fullscreen ed­i­tor is out at http://­mar­ave.­google­code.­com

This ver­sion in­cludes sev­er­al bugs fixed and fea­tures im­ple­ment­ed since 0.2:

• New 'Styles' sup­­port, you can change the look of Mar­ave with CSS syn­­tax

• De­bugged themes sup­­port, a few themes in­­­clud­ed

• Fixed bug sav­ing text col­or

• Fixed font chang­ing bug

• Use the doc­u­­ment name in win­­dow ti­­tle

• "Now play­ing" no­ti­­fi­­ca­­tion

Mar­ave is free soft­are re­leased un­der the GPL, and should work in all ma­jor desk­top plat­form­s.

I would love feed­back on this re­lease, as well as ideas for Mar­ave's fu­ture, so if you want to help, please join the mail­ing list:

http://­group­s.­google.­com/­group/­mar­ave-dis­cuss

Of course, if you like Mar­ave, feel free to give me mon­ey

Ver­sion 0.2 of Mar­ave, a dis­trac­tion-free fullscreen ed­i­tor is out at http://­mar­ave.­google­code.­com

This ver­sion in­cludes sev­er­al bugs fixed and fea­tures im­ple­ment­ed since 0.1.1:

• A cor­rup­t­ed Right-click menu (Is­­sue 20)

• Flick­­er­ing on back­­­ground changes

• More de­­tailed li­­cen­s­ing in­­­for­­ma­­tion

• More test­ed on Win­­dows

• Added help (F1)

• Search & Re­­place (but re­­place all is not done)

• New art­­work

• Sta­­tus no­ti­­fi­­ca­­tions

• Doc­u­­ment In­­­fo (C­tr­l+I)

• Bet­ter feed­back in the UI el­e­­ments (spe­­cial­­ly the but­­ton­s)

• Save font size cor­rec­t­­ly

• Fix "S­­tarts in the back­­­ground" prob­lem (Is­­sue 17)

Mar­ave is free soft­are re­leased un­der the GPL, and should work in all ma­jor desk­top plat­form­s.

I would love feed­back on this re­lease, as well as ideas for Mar­ave's fu­ture, so a mail­ing list for Mar­ave has been opened:

http://­group­s.­google.­com/­group/­mar­ave-dis­cuss

Of course, if you like Mar­ave, feel free to give me mon­ey

The first "good" ver­sion of Mar­ave my re­lax­ing text ed­i­tor is out!

What is Mar­ave?

Mar­ave is an ed­i­tor that does­n't dis­tract you. It has a fullscreen in­ter­face, and most of the time, while you write, you will on­ly see your tex­t, and maybe a back­ground:

Of course it is al­so quite con­fig­urable:

Some of the fea­tures:

• Cus­­tom back­­­grounds (im­ages or col­ors)

• Font and font size are con­­fig­urable

• Re­­size­able ed­i­­tor of con­­fig­urable opac­i­­ty

• "Van­ish­ing" UI, when you tipe, it all goes away

• Op­­tion­al me­­dia play­er (right now aimed at stream­ing au­­dio, maybe sound­s­capes some­­day)

• Op­­tion­al au­­dio feed­back for the key­board (just in case you miss the old type­­writer)

• Theme sup­­port

• Mul­ti­lin­gual spellcheck­­ing (re­quires pyen­chan­t)

Mar­ave is im­ple­ment­ed us­ing PyQt, so it should work in all ma­jor plat­form­s, Win­dows, Lin­ux and Mac OS­X, as long as you have PyQt in­stalled.

In the fu­ture, easy to use bi­na­ries will be pro­vid­ed for Win­dows and Mac.

This ver­sion is not fea­ture com­plete. Specif­i­cal­ly:

• Search+Re­­place is not done

• There may be some cus­­tomiza­­­tions not im­­ple­­men­t­ed

Down­load Mar­ave 0.1

UP­DATE 0.2 is out, at http://­code.­google.­com/p/­mar­ave/­down­load­s/list