Re: [gedit-list] Gedit Redesign

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

On 02/01/2011 02:54 PM, Kennedy Kasina wrote:

Hi All,

I just joined the list and hence quit a new member here. I was checking out Gedit the other day and had Nautilus open right next to it and it made me wonder, why can we get a unified look at feel across Gnome. Gedit struck me first and I wanted to propose whether some UI redesign can be done to achieve something close to screenshot attached.

These things are mostly theming issues, and not so much gedit UI related. If you have a look at gedit there is not all that much UI anyway. Also, if you want to have a unified result, you should not really change all individual applications to match. Maybe I don't understand exactly what you would like to change (I'm not really familiar with the theme of your screenshot, or what gedit looks like in that theme). Does it tweak things specifically for Nautilus?

Secondly in the redesign, doing away with the file browser tab. Its a Text Editor for sure so no need repeat some make feature which are availed by other apps that are purposefully designed for that.

The way these things work is that the gnome desktop does/did not provide any convenient way to really work on a project. Sure, you can have a nautilus window open next to your gedit window, but there is no way that this is really convenient (for example, maybe you need to move your text editor a bit out of the way for some other window, you keep reorganizing your windows). So, to improve a workflow, you add plugins to the text editor, and voila.

As nacho pointed out, you can always disable this plugin, no problem. We will hopefully see that with gnome shell, file management gets easier and the need for a filebrowser plugin will be less. Personally, I found the filebrowser taking away too much space and also the need to use the mouse was annoying. Thus we designed Quick open (I never use filebrowser anymore).

I have more thoughts in mind and I shall share them with you.

Regards,

Kennedy Kasina

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