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Nooooooo! First thing I do on every Ubuntu install is change the default editor to vim. Used to use the Gnome editor a lot, but since the introduction of vscod
by ncphil 4y ago
Nooooooo!
First thing I do on every Ubuntu install is change the default editor to vim. Used to use the Gnome editor a lot, but since the introduction of vscode I rarely fire it up. The old editor (which is still shipping with LTS) is probably the best of the Gnome apps. The devs' effort to replace it is deeply disappointing, but they've made it abundantly clear they don't care what any of us think.
- xoac 4y agoLet me unpack this post: 1. You rarely use the default text editor 2. You are very ("Nooooooo!") dismayed by the default text editor change 3. The old editor is one of the best Gnome apps, however you don't indicate whether you've tried to use the new one and what are its deficiencies 4. Just the fact that they are replacing Gedit however, is deeply disappointing 5. Obviously the devs don't care what "we" (you) think Nice.
- freedomben 4y ago> but they've made it abundantly clear they don't care what any of us think. that's a pretty cynical take. there are definitely some individuals that work on gnome who don't care, but in general I get the sense that gnome does care. just considering it from a practical standpoint, what if they tried to do everything we asked for? there are millions of opinions that are all mutually exclusive, but even if you filtered those out it would still be utter chaos, probably each dev doing what they think is best (remember gnome is largely a volunteer org). There are definitely things I wish gnome did differently, but I'm really glad to see the focus on making the developer experience better with different language bindings for gtk so one isn't stuck writing gui apps in C (or hacky python), and modernization of the toolkit, etc. I think that will help a lot because there will be a lot more choice.