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I liked the Gedit from Gnome 2 and what shipped with Ubuntu 12, and 14. The Ubuntu 16/17 and Gnome 3 Gedit is crap. I hate the UI change. The removal of the men

by frik 9y ago

I liked the Gedit from Gnome 2 and what shipped with Ubuntu 12, and 14. The Ubuntu 16/17 and Gnome 3 Gedit is crap. I hate the UI change. The removal of the menu, the ugly hamburger menu with few entries. Gnome 3 is like KDE 4/5 a trainwreck - instead of create a cheap ripoff UI, why not stay with what worked - Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were perfect, had a good UI, just slap a modern theme over. And the newer worse incarnation aren't even touch friendly, well like Win10 - ugly, slow - Win7 is the better one. Only Apple with macOS and Google with Android get it right, iOS6, iOS11, Android 7 all look great and modern, and the UI doesn't suck. I will install "Ubuntu Mate", it comes with Gnome 2 shell built with gtk3.

wuch 9y ago
I don't use gedit, but in general I like look and feel of GNOME 3 applications: * Emphasis on undo instead of confirmation dialogs. Though, some applications got implementation completely wrong. Contacts, I am looking at you. It delays deleting a contact instead of offering a real undo, which means that if you exit early no action is performed at all. * Different colors for constructive / destructive actions used consistently across applications. * Keyboard shortcuts window. Though, I don't understand why most applications insist on making it modal, which essentially prohibits looking at shortcuts and trying them out at the same time. * Headers bars. I prefer those over traditional menu bars, especially if number of different actions to perform is limited. Though, portability suffers as making it work in environments without client side decorations requires some custom code. Thus, if developer didn't take this into account it probably doesn't work. * In-app notifications (used for example for example for undo I have already mentioned). Though, AFAIK this doesn't seem to be builtin part of GTK yet and require a little bit more custom code than other widgets. * Empty placeholders! (Though, they might have been there already?)
progval 9y ago
You can also use Pluma (Gedit fork by Mate's people) with any desktop env, including Gnome 3.

by frik 9y ago

wuch 9y ago

I don't use gedit, but in general I like look and feel of GNOME 3 applications: * Emphasis on undo instead of confirmation dialogs. Though, some applications got implementation completely wrong. Contacts, I am looking at you. It delays deleting a contact instead of offering a real undo, which means that if you exit early no action is performed at all. * Different colors for constructive / destructive actions used consistently across applications. * Keyboard shortcuts window. Though, I don't understand why most applications insist on making it modal, which essentially prohibits looking at shortcuts and trying them out at the same time. * Headers bars. I prefer those over traditional menu bars, especially if number of different actions to perform is limited. Though, portability suffers as making it work in environments without client side decorations requires some custom code. Thus, if developer didn't take this into account it probably doesn't work. * In-app notifications (used for example for example for undo I have already mentioned). Though, AFAIK this doesn't seem to be builtin part of GTK yet and require a little bit more custom code than other widgets. * Empty placeholders! (Though, they might have been there already?)

progval 9y ago

You can also use Pluma (Gedit fork by Mate's people) with any desktop env, including Gnome 3.