Orwell 0.1 beta 1 released!

[Todd Slater]

On 5/23/06, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5/23/06, Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On 5/22/06, The Wiz <me at kbrooks.ath.cx> wrote:
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> > Orwell differs from gedit in that it does NOT use the filesystem
> > like some text editors (such as gedit) do. Making people use the
> > filesystem for saving and opening is bad because it is not very usable.
> > I should put in a link to the screenshots in my release
>  > announcements. Anyway, the screenshots are at:
> >
> http://kbrooks.ath.cx/index.php/2006/05/20/orwell-screenshots/
>
> Huh, you mean I'm so stupid I can't figure out how to use the
> filesystem? Then how the hell do you expect me to check out the code
> from svn and build it?
>
> Todd

> I hope you should not bash the contributors. This is in fact a proposed
> concept in GNOME 3.0,  See ThreePointZero
>
> > Proposal: 'Instant apply' saving of documents as you edit,
> What-You-See-Is-What's-On-Disc (WYSIWOD)

I'm not bashing anybody, I'm just suggesting it's silly to say that
using the filesystem is bad because it's "not very usable." Usable for
what and by whom? I understand the notion of autosave as in Tomboy,
but if that's what the developers are after I think they need to call
it something other than a text editor, perhaps a scratchpad, notepad,
or something. When you say text editor, I expect to be able to open
and write files from and to anywhere I have read/write permissions.

Todd