Re: [gedit-list] gtide - gedit to IDEs (and beyond)

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:28:05AM +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On 2016-03-29, 19:12 GMT, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> > To be honest I'm tempted to fork gedit, remove the plugin 
> > system, to have more degrees of freedom to create the 
> > framework. The fork of gedit would be called for example 
> > gnotepad, since it would be a streamlined version of gedit. 
> > And for gnotepad I could create the UI that I want (since 
> > I disagree on several points about the current gedit UI). 
>
> Well, the problem is that gedit without plugins is mostly 
> useless. Really, does anybody care about functional equivalent 
> of Notepad?

gnotepad would just be the tip of the iceberg. The interesting part is
the framework. Ideally gnotepad would be, say, < 1000 lines of code. But
it would contain all gedit core functionality.

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Sébastien