Suggestion: Change mousepad for pluma

[Johannes Lips]

Hi,

there was a lot of development in the last year, for more details please
check the git log at http://git.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/

So it's not that outdated anymore and only a release is missing.

Johannes


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Michał Olber <michal.olber at osworld.pl>wrote:

> 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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