I'm unable to send to the list, so kindly do forward for me.
What I had in mind was just a small UI redesign. Not removal of
features - I'm really sorry guys understood me wrongly. I managed
to do some UI in glade and I have attached the screenshots of it.
Regards,
Kennedy Kasina
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Jesse van
den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>
wrote:
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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