Text Editors [Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules]

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Pat Suwalski wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:30:17 -0500
> From: Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>
> To: Desktop Devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules
>
> Elijah Newren wrote:
> >>gedit 2.13.x also depends on g-p-e, for the new python plugins (like the
> >>Snippets Plugin [1]).
> >>It requires at least the gtksourceview module, and perhaps the
> >>gnome-print bindings (I'm not sure).
> >
> > The previous consensus and agreement was that desktop modules could
> > depend upon python bindings found in the bindings release set.
> > gnome-python-extras isn't part of that set.  As pointed out in
> > Murray's email, it's not suitable for that set either.  So we need to
> > determine what we want to do and reach consensus on this point as
> > well.  A variety of options exist:
>
> I'll bring a conservative point of view forward: binding inclusion
> aside, does this make gedit any faster? Does it make it slower? Slower
> is not acceptable, as gedit has been feeling slower and slower every
> release.
>

> Maybe it's time for a gedit-lite that bears much more resemblance to
> Windows notepad than where gedit is going.

Does anything like that exist and if so is it documented, translated,
accessible and well tested?  The devil is in the details and huge amounts
of time and effort has been invested in the details of Gedit.  There may
be good excuse to sneak other text editors into Gnome (like maybe tomboy,
or the sticky notes applet, or (*) ...) but justifying the removal of
Gedit is a whole other ball of wax.

The gedit developers can tell you I'm not even very enthusiastic about
gedit but vague comments about unproven alternatives are counter
productive.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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* I'd love to find an excuse for Gnome to include a very minimal text
editor, perhaps even share one with GPE/Maemo or even XFCE.