The reasons why Leafpad is fine

[James Freer]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM, David Segura M <davidseg at gmail.com> wrote:
> El 08/01/13 07:52, Eero Tamminen escribió:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On tiistai 08 tammikuu 2013, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:06 PM, PK <pliniusminor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So please: let's keep Leafpad as default for Xubuntu!
>>>
>>> I'd say put Mousepad back in. :) Its recent latest release is very
>>> decent, and strikes a compromise between Leafpad and Gedit.
>>
>> What features (including e.g. translations to extra languages)
>> it adds on top of Leafpad?
>>
>>
>>         - Eero
>>
>
> I am of the opinion of leaving the apps that the Xubuntu team decides as
> every user can un/install the ones they want whenever they want, but in this
> case Mousepad seems to me a better choice since it is a project of the Xfce
> team wich has a recent relesase with some very intersesting characteristics
> but at the same time keeping it amazingly fast:
>
> - Drag and Drop support for text inside a document, between tabs and
>   between windows.  Also supports opening a file by dragging it into
>   the window.
> - Support for multiple tabs in one window which are both reorderable
>   and detachable.
> - Load multiple files at once from both the open dialog and the command
>   line.
> - Type-ahead find and highlight feature like Firefox.
> - Support for editable menu accelerators.
> - Reimplemented recent file support. You can cleanup the Mousepad
>   history and a file is removed from the history when Mousepad was
>   unable to open it.
> - Syntax highlighting of many filetypes (including printing).
> - Various hidden settings.
> - Statusbar with filetype, cursor location and whether overwrite is
>   actived.
>
>
> --
> David Segura M

Let's be fair on why Leafpad was used in the first place Mousepad
development and maintenance was dropped - dead app. Now after two
years it's available again for consideration.

james