mousepad future

[TerryJ]

Maximilian Schleiss wrote:
> TerryJ wrote:
>   
>> Hi.  I deleted your original message, thinking it was of no relevance to 
>> me because I don't use mousepad.
>>
>> I use Kate, mainly because it has the tab extension.  If I'm writing 
>> scripting, it also has some highlighting options.  Also, I can choose 
>> the background, font colour and selection colour.
>>
>> I would like to stop using Kate, just as I would prefer not to use 
>> Konqueror as a file manager, but I keep using them (and other Kde apps) 
>> because they are better than the other options.
>>
>> I would be delighted if Xfce or Gnome came up with better apps but they 
>> don't.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> this might sound rude but it is not, I'm just from a native english 
> language country. Your mail, in my opinion, was totally useless. You are 
> telling us that you use Kate because you write scripts and it has some 
> highlighting ability and you can choose  the font, background and 
> selection colors. Then you explain us that you would like to stop using 
> konqueror as a file manager as well as other KDE apps because they are 
> better than the other options. Good for you I would like to say.
>
> The text editor part is the only part of your mail where you tell us 
> what you are expecting from a text editor. I can't tell to what extent 
> adding some developer features to the Mousepad editor would make it less 
> light and fast.
>
> If the apps you are using are better than the others, why would you stop 
> using them? Because KDE is heavy you would probably answer me. Well 
> then, why don't you tell us exactly what these options are that you use 
> in KDE that fail to your quality test in Xfce? And please, be so kind to 
> begin a new thread for these features that you want to expose as being 
> absent in Xfce, because this would fall out of the mousepad thread this 
> mail is in.
>
> There are plenty of applications for GTK that work beautifully under 
> Xfce and I hope that your new thread will have enough replies to it that 
> point to these apps.
>
> The main reason I replied to your mail is this:
>
> I would be delighted if Xfce or Gnome came up with better apps but they 
> don't.
>
> Useless!
>
> As I said before, begin a new thread that you could call "My features 
> requests for Xfce" and tell us what keeps you from stepping on the evil 
> side of the mouse. :-p
>
> Max.
I must have got you on a bad day.  Don't worry, be happy.

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Regards, TerryJ

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