Suggestion: Change leafpad for pluma

[Michał Olber]

I think, You have right. Developing Mousepad or Leafpad makes no sense 
and is only a waste of time, that could be spent on another project to help.

W dniu 16.11.2012 10:38, jEsuSdA 8) pisze:
> El 16/11/12 10:11, Michał Olber escribió:
>> Better use Geany :)
>> http://mate-desktop.org/2012/11/09/pluma-vs-geany-lite/
>>
>
> As you can see and as you can read I told, Geany is very appreciated 
> by "developers" but I think is not the kind of text editor a "normal 
> user" could find friendly.
>
> The thing is:
>
> 1 - XFCE can still using Leafpad, but the XFCE users do not do that, 
> and they uses Geany, Gedit, or whatever else. So, What sense has to 
> bring an app nobody cares?
>
> 2 - As you suggest, people may use Geany. This is the same as 1. 
> Maybe, then, XFCE could discuss about replacing Leafpad for Geany.
>
> 3 - As I suggest, XFCE could replace Leafpad with Pluma. And maybe 
> join efforts with Mate people to mantain it.
>
> 4 - Maybe, if Geany Lite is released (Geany Lite there no actually 
> exists, it is only a Mate idea), could be used instead Leafpad or 
> Pluma, and XFCE could join efforts with Mate people to mantain.
>
>
> The point is that I think Leafpad does not bring so much functionality 
> to be used for many people. And maybe continue its development 
> requires so much time and resources to still bringing a text editor 
> who does not bring the functionality expected.
>
> How many work and time is needed to bring Leafpad the functionality 
> Pluma has yet?
>
> I think baybe using other text editor could save time, resources and 
> bring users a better experience making XFCE more complete and useful.
>
> Excuse me if not explain well enough. ;)
>
>
>
>
>> W dniu 16.11.2012 10:09, jEsuSdA 8) pisze:
>>> El 16/11/12 09:58, Michał Olber escribió:
>>>> Maybe try Leafpad, which is used by Xubuntu project?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, sorry, I was talking about mousepad instead Leafpad.
>>>
>>> The point is the same: Leafpad is more similar to mousepad than Pluma.
>>> Has no syntax colors, spellcheking, plugins... and the about says it
>>> was released on 2010...
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it will be a great idea to use Pluma instead Leafpad.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>
>>>
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