Added an Adwaita theme, because GNU/Linux deserves some love.
Added Windows taskbar media controls accessible by hovering over the app icon in the taskbar
Added a "Refresh now" button to the main menu
Added ReplayGain support
Added option to show album name on the now playing page
Added possibility to edit the album cover
Changed
Discord Rich Presence says "Listening to" instead of "Playing"
Improved scaling of different parts of the user interface
Updated the Czech translation
Updated the German translation
Updated the Hebrew translation
Updated the Russian translation
Updated the Vietnamese translation
Fixed
Saving a rating to an MP3 file could create an ID3v1 tag, causing genres to be stored and displayed as their numeric ID3v1 code (e.g. "Eurodance" becoming "54")
It is not possible to edit songs from the Songs screen
There is no scroll bar in the smart playlist editor
Loop one does not work correctly when using gapless or crossfading playback
When exiting Dopamine, the Discord status doesn't disappear.
It's not always clear when Dopamine is refreshing the collection
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In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as a coach to help review
my new ffs package for GNU Emacs as I worked on preparing it for
inclusion in GNU ELPA, as well as discussing other Emacs- and
life-related topics.
In our nearly 2-hour conversation, we discussed at length and in depth
various aspects of life in the current times. For instance, feeling
overwhelmed in the face of innumerable things happening at once, with
technology changing our perception and making events feel proximate
and imminent.
We talked about seasonality and rhythms in life, including in relation
to burnout and knowing our own limitations, and descriptive vs
prescriptive thinking when reflecting on the expectations we may place
on our self when comparing our self to others through the lens of our
necessarily-incomplete impressions and glimpses of their lives. We
discussed absence or loss as a dual to presence or persistence in the
process of life. How with our memories and through embodying the
philosophy and teachings of departed loved ones their essence and
legacy continues to live on within us. But also loss in the sense of
us losing parts of our self in life-defining moments while preserving
other parts and gaining new ones, being liberated of some of the
burdens of our past self and in effect becoming someone else in the
process.
In being true to our self, we talked about humans as multi-faceted
beings and the importance of expressing and giving a voice to these
different aspects of our self, and keeping alive that child-like
sense of awe and wonder. To live a life where the pace and rhythms of
our environment are in sync with our internal rhythms, and to not give
others undue power over us or our happiness through trying to live
according to their prescribed standards or expectations.
I also learned more about Prot's practical philosophy of situational
awareness in life, not merely as a means for survival, but also as a
way of appreciating all of the beauty that surrounds us, and a method
for gaining the knowledge and skills to apply what we learn from
patterns in one area of life to other areas.
We concluded our session with a mention to the concept of sanctity, to
set aside a sacred time or place for our self wherein no distractions
are allowed, where we can unwind, rest, and recharge for whatever
comes next.
Here is the video recording of our session, which I share with Prot's
permission:
ffs provides a minor mode for simple plain text presentations in
Emacs, where the slides are separated using the page-delimiter, by
default the form feed character (^L).
I wrote ffs in early 2022 for my LibrePlanet 2022 presentation the
Net beyond the Web, and earlier this year decided to polish it towards
being a proper package and submit it to GNU ELPA. The manual still
needs some more work, but the overall package is in pretty good shape
so I submitted for inclusion in GNU ELPA.
ffs and I owe a debt of gratitude to Protesilaos for rounds of
code review and feedback for improving and polishing the package in
preparation for submission to GNU ELPA. You can watch videos of these
sessions posted earlier on my website:
The attempted build of ffs 0.2.1 within GNU ELPA build sandbox failed
with an Error: void-function (org-texinfo-kbd-macro) due to use of
#+macro: kbd (eval (org-texinfo-kbd-macro $1)) in ffs.org for better
formatting of key sequences in the exported Texinfo copy. This seems
to have happened for the specific case of generating a plain text
README using ox-ascii where ELPA didn't load ox-texinfo. To try
and mitigate this, a README.md has been added for use as the package
README instead of ffs.org. If not sufficient, a Texinfo copy of the
ffs manual will be shipped instead of the Org one in the next release.
ffs 0.2.2 also includes small fixes and improvements throughout
ffs.el from Stefan Monnier, and additional feedback to be addressed
in future releases.
Version 0.2.1 on 2026-05-20
The attempted build of ffs 0.2.0 within GNU ELPA build sandbox failed
with a "Cannot include file" error on the "#+include: fdl.org" in the
manual. So, as a workaround, we switch to using the official Texinfo
copy of the GNU FDL license rather than an Org copy.
Version 0.2.0 on 2026-05-19
First release of ffs intended for GNU ELPA.
After a few years of inactivity, in early 2026 I decided to dust off
ffs.el, polish and document it, and offer for inclusion in GNU ELPA
as a proper package.
Default value of ffs-default-face-height changed to nil
To minimize unexpected and/or unnecessary changes out-of-the-box, the
default value of ffs-default-face-height has been changed to nil.
ffs-edit-buffer-name demoted from user option to variable
This is not an important user-facing setting, so to help avoid
overwhelming users with many options, this has been demoted from a
user option to a variable.
Several new user options for customizing ffs's behaviour
As part of the effort to bring ffs more in line with the conventions
of other existing Emacs packages, the mechanisms for toggling various
parts of Emacs's interface to minimize visual clutter were changed
from being minor modes to being customizable user options. These are
the replacement new user options, with a default value of nil:
ffs-hide-cursor
ffs-hide-mode-line
ffs-hide-header-line
Their value is buffer-local, and may be set globally using
setq-default. See the sample configuration in the manual for an
example of how to customize them.
The new ffs-page-delimiter user option defines the page delimiter
inserted by ffs-edit-done when inserting a new slide. Emacs's
page-delimiter regexp should be able to match ffs-page-delimiter's
value, so if you use a custom page-delimiter be sure to customize
ffs-page-delimiter accordingly.
The new ffs-echo-progress user option controls whether to display in
echo area the progress through the slides. When non-nil, changing
slides will also display the progress through the slides in the echo
area. The format of the displayed progress can be customized using
the new ffs-echo-progress-format user option.
The new ffs-edit-display-buffer-alist user option may be used to
control the Window configuration for the ffs-edit buffer. By
default, it will display the ffs-edit buffer in the same window.
The new ffs-edit-done-hook user option may be used to define hooks
to be run at the end of ffs-edit-done after returning to the main
ffs presentation buffer.
Lastly, a new ffs-find-speaker-notes-function variable was added to
allow customizing the find function used for opening the speaker's
notes file, defaulting to find-file-other-frame.
Version 0.1.0 on 2022-05-19
Initial publication of ffs.el as part of my personal configurations
for GNU Emacs.
My first attempt at this concept was a now-archived ffsanim.el,
a major mode implementation that used Emacs's animate library to
animate slide texts onto the screen. Shortly after realizing the
shortcomings of that approach, I abandoned it in favour a minor mode
implementation and published version 0.1.0 of what is now ffs in
my personal configs repository.
I used this implementation for presenting my LibrePlanet 2022 talk,
The Net beyond the Web.
I picked "ffs" as the package name, the acronym for form feed slides.
In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as an Emacs coach to help
with doing review passes over my upcoming ffs package as I work on
polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it for
inclusion in GNU ELPA.
Today we had our third session where we started by reviewing and
talking about my recent changes to ffs, then ventured to other
Emacs-related topics with the overarching theme of the flexibility
and extensibility of GNU Emacs, including display-buffer-alist,
keyboard macros, defining a custom ox-bhtml Org export backend
derived from Org's ox-html for ultimate flexibility when exporting
my site's pages from Org to HTML, Org capture, plain text files and
Emacs's diary and how it compares to org-agenda, and keeping a
journal with the help of Emacs.
Here is the video recording of our session, which I share with Prot's
permission:
In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as an Emacs coach to help
with doing review passes over my upcoming ffs package as I work on
polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it for
inclusion in GNU ELPA.
Yesterday we had our second session focused on ffs, which I recorded
and share publicly with everyone with Prot's permission, so that
others can also benefit from Prot's insights and experience as we
discuss various aspects of Emacs package development with the concrete
example of ffs.
I addressed most of Prot's feedback about ffs from our first
session, and I'll be working on the changes we discussed in this
session in the next days.
In the last third of the video we switched topics to discuss a few
Emacs-related tangents including adding a 'padding' effect for the
mode line and its constructs, and distilling and separating the
easily-reusable package-like parts of one's Emacs configuration from
the actual configuration of those parts (e.g. the distinction of
prot-lisp and prot-emacs-modules in Prot's Emacs configuration).
For mode line padding, here is the snippet I'm using with Prot's
doric-themes:
Yesterday I joined Sacha Chua for a new episode of her Emacs Chat
podcast, where we talked about Emacs and life. I gave a quick tour
of my Emacs configuration, discussing at length my configurations for
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) among other topics like Emacs's facility
for visually indicating buffer boundaries in the fringe by setting
indicate-buffer-boundaries and my convenience configuration macros.
The above video is provided with closed captions and the below
transcript courtesy of Sacha with minor fixes and formatting by me.
I've included some of Sacha's screenshots from our chat, you can see
the rest on the episode's page on Sacha's blog.
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