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" <p...@shimmerproject.org> wrote: > I agree this got off track. Here's what I think: > > Instead of discussing the target audience, we should keep in mind what the > usage for an application, in this case, Mousepad, is. > > 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. > > 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 > > P.S. Yes, the Strategy Document should say Mousepad, not Leafpad. > > On 07/11/13 14:58, Richard Elkins wrote: > > I think that the discussion got off track. A good engineer's editor probably > supports any language - it does for me. > > 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. > > > On 11/07/2013 05:55 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > > Hi, > > On keskiviikko 06 marraskuu 2013, Joshua O'Leary wrote: > > 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++ > > 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++). > > > - Eero > > > > > > > > -- > Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ > Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » http://shimmerproject.org/ > Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » http://xubuntu.org/ > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > >
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