Suggestion: Change mousepad for pluma

[Michał Olber]

Maybe try Leafpad, which is used by Xubuntu project?

Regards

W dniu 16.11.2012 09:28, jEsuSdA 8) pisze:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed the gedit fork pluma from the Mate desktop.
>
> I have test the amount of memory used by pluma is about 50% of gedit 
> (gtk3), and, of course, it starts very quickly.
>
> The XFCE default text editor is mousepad and the "about" information 
> says the actual version came from 2006. XFCE has lot of improvements 
> since 2006, but mousepad is the same.
>
> I think it will be a nice idea to use mate-text-editor pluma as a 
> default XFCE editor. It has some great advantages like spellchek, 
> syntax color, and some plugins.
>
> It was made using gtk2, like XFCE, and it can run standalone (more or 
> less).
>
> The Mate desktop guys are discusing about Pluma or Geany as a default 
> Mate text editor, cause they have no enough people to mantain pluma as 
> same level than Geany developers can.
>
> I think Geany is not a user friendly text editor, it is a great IDE, 
> but not a general purpose text editor.
>
> Maybe you could join efforts to mantain Pluma and, maybe XFCE and Mate 
> can get benefits in this point.
>
> I know everybody can install Pluma even it will not be part of XFCE 
> desktop, but doing this implies adding new repositories, and install 
> some extra packages I consider not needed (mate-conf, for example).
>
> Maybe you could work to a better integration with pluma and XFCE or 
> even make a fork.
>
> The point is that mousepad does not match the high quality of XFCE 
> apps, and pluma could sorrowfully dissapears if Mate choses Geany. 
> Maybe XFCE could adopt this nice text editor and take advantage from it.
>
> Finally I'm not a developer, so I know this suggestion could be easy 
> to expose, difficult to accomplish, so I will understand you tell me 
> this is a nonsense. ;)
>
> Excuse my poor english and let me know what do you think about this 
> suggestion. ;)
>
> Salu2 de jEsuSdA 8)
>
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