<div dir="ltr">Hey,<div><br><div>I use Notepad++ on Windows for simple programming etc. but the text editor I use in Xubuntu is gedit.</div><div>I just thought I'd throw in my opinion as someone who need's these things.</div> <div>Now to think of it, gedit was the first thing I installed after installing Xubuntu...</div><div><br></div><div>Will </div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Joshua O'Leary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmoey139@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmoey139@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br> It mentions C++ programs as being unsuitable, but this is clearly not the case as core components<br> (such as apt and software-centre, and now even gcc) are coded in C++, in addition to python being used quite heavily.<br> Whilst C is a great language (I often code in it myself), these restrictions seem a bit unnecessary.<br> <br> Joshua<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:54:19 +0000<br> Elfy <<a href="mailto:ub.untu@btinternet.com">ub.untu@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br> > On 06/11/13 12:31, Richard Elkins wrote:<br> > > On 11/06/2013 04:14 AM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:<br> > >> On 05/11/13 15:31, Elfy wrote:<br> > >>> On 05/11/13 12:45, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:<br> > >>>> Hello all community members,<br> > >>>><br> > >>>> the new proposed Strategy Document for reviewing and feedback is in a<br> > >>>> branch here:<br> > >>>> <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~knome/+junk/xubuntu-strategy-document-rewrite-1311" target="_blank">https://code.launchpad.net/~knome/+junk/xubuntu-strategy-document-rewrite-1311</a><br> > >>>><br> > >>>><br> > >>>> The new version has a few huge changes:<br> > >>>> * The XPL voting method is changed; only team members can vote<br> > >>>> * Process descriptions are removed and moved to the wiki [1]<br> > >>>><br> > >>>> Cheers,<br> > >>>> Pasi<br> > >>>><br> > >>>> P.S. Thanks Elizabeth for cleaning up the processes with me!<br> > >>>><br> > >>>> [1] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Processes" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Processes</a><br> > >>>><br> > >>> I'm happy with that.<br> > >>><br> > >>> Except<br> > >>><br> > >>> * leafpad (Simple text editor)<br> > >>><br> > >>> Should that not be mousepad now?<br> > >>><br> > >>> Elfy<br> > >>><br> > >> Yep.<br> > >><br> > > Both leafpad and mousepad are better than Windows Notepad but they're<br> > > not the best choice for engineers. For the same reason that developers<br> > > install Notepad++ on Windows, I would guess that the majority install<br> > > Gnome Edit (gedit) on Linux and Unix.<br> > ><br> > > So, the choice of default text editor should be based on the target<br> > > audience for the release which has evolved since the first 'buntu, quite<br> > > a bit. Who is it nowadays?<br> > ><br> > > Richard<br> > ><br> > ><br> > I'd assume not developers ;)<br> ><br> > I'm certainly not one - and while I used gedit to be able to have tabs -<br> > mousepad has that, so is one less thing I install to my usual system here.<br> ><br> > Elfy<br> ><br> > --<br> > Ubuntu Forum Council Member<br> > Xubuntu QA Lead<br> ><br> ><br> > --<br> > xubuntu-devel mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a><br> <br> <br> </div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br> Joshua O'Leary <<a href="mailto:jmoey139@gmail.com">jmoey139@gmail.com</a>><br> </font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> --<br> xubuntu-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>