Re: [desktop-devel-list] Potential GNOME IDE

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi,


Le 05/01/2014 18:03, Sébastien Wilmet a écrit :
> Having both gedit and Anjuta is already a duplication of effort.

I don't think so. You can run Anjuta with only the editor plugin to 
looks like a simple editor or run gedit with lots of plugin to look like 
Anjuta but it's not the same. The architecture is quite different.


> Personally I prefer only a text editor, and use the command line or
> other applications for the other features (git, glade, devhelp, etc).

It's a very common way to work. I typically have several terminals open 
too and use Anjuta as a text editor. But some functions are really 
useful, like saving all files before compiling or setting breakpoints in 
the text view. I think more will be useful but it's not obvious to get 
the right user interface, just adding a menu item is not enough.


> By moving some features from gedit or Anjuta to GtkSourceView, we can
> eliminate part of the effort duplication. And specialized text editors
> can emerge, which is a good thing in my opinion. I don't really like
> general-purpose applications, they are more complex to configure, and
> they are more complicated to learn and use. The UI is generic enough for
> all the possible plugins, but for some plugins the UI is a bit too
> restrictive.

I don't think you should consider Anjuta, nor I think Netbean or 
Eclipse, as a general purpose application. Anjuta is a program only 
loading plugins and allowing them to communicate between each other.

A plugin includes code, like a shared library, with some data, like the 
interface provided and some graphical user interface elements.


> If there are libraries for creating easily a text editor, a debugger,
> Git features, and so on, in the end the IDE is just a GUI to integrate
> all the pieces together. Specialized text editors can be created for C,
> Vala, Python, LaTeX, etc.

With the right set of plugins, Anjuta is rather a specialized text 
editor. But if we want to make such kind of editor really easy to 
implement, having common libraries is only a first step.


> I hope it clarifies a bit my position,

Sure.


Regards,

Sébastien