New proposed Strategy Document - Text Editor discussion

[Joan Advincula]

If Mousepad now supports tabs and syntax highlighting, I say it is already
very good for a default install. As long as it supports enough languages.

I think geany is too much and anything more wouldn't be useful to an
ordinary user anyway.

- Joan
On Nov 7, 2013 10:50 PM, "Pasi Lallinaho" <pasi at shimmerproject.org> wrote:

>  I agree this got off track. Here's what I think:
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> Instead of discussing the target audience, we should keep in mind what the
> usage for an application, in this case, Mousepad, is.
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> From my point of view, Mousepad is to provide a simple text editor to edit
> some configuration files and possibly some simple text files. The newest
> Mousepad version does support 1) tabs 2) syntax highlighting 3) color
> schemes (and there has been support for text wrapping and line numbers for
> a long time). These alone make Mousepad even a bit superfluous for the
> reason and usecase we are including Mousepad.
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> If you need features that Mousepad do not have, you probably want to
> install a preferred editor anyway. It is likely that there will be no
> consensus if we start arguing over which advanced editor is "the best".
> Ultimately, I don't think Xubuntu lacks at all if we don't ship such editor.
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
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> P.S. Yes, the Strategy Document should say Mousepad, not Leafpad.
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> On 07/11/13 14:58, Richard Elkins wrote:
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> I think that the discussion got off track.  A good engineer's editor probably supports any language - it does for me.
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> The choice of default text editor should be based on the target audience for the release which has evolved since the first 'buntu, quite
> a bit.  Who is the target audience nowadays?  Or, should we default in one for simple note-padding and one with a lot of engineering capabilities?
>
> Keep in mind that they are both low on dependencies, relative to other packages.
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> On 11/07/2013 05:55 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On keskiviikko 06 marraskuu 2013, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
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>  It mentions C++ programs as being unsuitable, but this is clearly not the
> case as core components (such as apt and software-centre, and now even
> gcc) are coded in C++
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>  Also all browsers use C++, from Dillo to Firefox
> (Gecko and Webkit HTML engines are coded in C++,
> even if the GUI toolkit wouldn't use C++).
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> 	- Eero
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