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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