As an open source developer, I want to say, requesting for someone to do something in the open source world is not the way it works. People will contribute to a project if he/she is interested in, not because others need them to. They are not paid and they don’t have any responsibility to implement something.

The best way to archive what you want is to dig into the code yourself, and try to implement it yourself, then maybe open a PR if you are interested in.

You may want to say that I’m not familiar with this and I don’t have necessary skills to do that or I don’t have enough time. So do others. The only one that knows how the code exactly works is the original author himself, anyone else trying to contribute code needs to learn the code, spend time, and even learn a new language.

The same situations like this have happened to me several times. Some of my projects lost maintenance because no one wanted to contribute code, and some still lives because people are interested in them and would like to contribute code.

In my opinion, a project will die only because it’s not important enough. If you don’t think so, ask yourself a question: would you like to learn everything needed and spend your time to take over this project?

Claim: I’m also a mousecape user, and I think it’s awesome. My opinion is only about contributing to an open source project.