Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> You must agree that Notepad is just a piece of crap.

Yes and no. For viewing things it would be perfectly okay if it could 
handle foreign forms of line breaks. But I digress. The keyword is "simple."

> As Paolo Borelli said, the new gedit is faster than the old one. It has 
> been partly rewritten and gained some needed features. Some of them, 
> rarely used, has even been removed to be reimplemented as optional plugins.

When a developer says it is faster, I cannot necessarily take it at face 
 value. For example, Gimp 2.x is undeniably faster than Gimp 1.x, but 
its startup time is longer. Is it, therefore, faster?

So, if I use Gimp as an image viewer, it's slower from my point of view. 
I use gedit more as a viewer than an editor. If startup time is any 
longer than before, then it is slower, from my point of view.

I'm simply sounding a note of caution. There were some plans at one 
point to rewrite large parts of EOG in Python. Thankfully it fell 
through, as that would have been pointless breakage of a near-perfect 
application.

--Pat