Re: [gedit-list] gedit 2.15.2 released

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi gmail com>]

Hi,

> My point is simple: most people are not programmers, and they do simple
> things with gedit: view a file, make a small change, etc. As the
> *official* editor, this is its main function, and its default behavior
> should cater to this use case. And I hope we can all agree that for
> the simple cases MDI gets in the way.

I fail to see why MDI is a problem in these cases. If you open a single
file to see it or to make small changes, I don't see why the fact gedit
is a MDI editor creates problems.

Please, don't say me the problem is the "tab" shown also when there is a
single file opened since I already said in past mails that you can
remove it writing a simple plugin. 
I don't care about that so I'm not going to write it, but if there are
people that really care to this so-called problem, I'm sure they will
write the plugin and I promise it will be included in gedit-plugins (if
jesse and nud agree) or at least distributed on the gedit web site.

Note also that we give distros the freedom to modify the gedit.desktop
file adding the --new-window flag if they think their users want to open
every new document in a new window.

I'm not going to modify the default behavior since in the past we had
the above behavior and our users asked us to change it and also because
we have worked a lot on tuning it to be most user friendly than
possibile.

> 
> For programming MDI is great, but for that _specialized_ purpose the
> editor can be opened in a special mode (via a different menu, most
> likely under Programming). This can also control what plugins are
> loaded too, to make the simple case load faster, and the specialized
> one even better.

We have tuned gedit startup time in the last releases and I can say that
plugins are not the cause of the long startup time most of us observe.

> 
> They are very different use cases, they need different treatment.
> 

If we have more persons working on gedit may be we could think about 
implementing different behaviors according to different use cases, but as
I said the gedit development team is small, working only on a volunteer basis,
and with little available time.

Ciao,
Paolo