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Re: Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12

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Shadow wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:41:55 +0000 (UTC), RS Wood
> <rswood@therandymon.com>  wrote:
>
>> From the "because that's what's holding Gnome3 back" department:
>> Title: A Look At The New Gedit GUI In GNOME 3.12
>> Author:
>> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:16:36 -0500
>> Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Phoronix/~3/UhJU_dzVaQU/vr.php
>>
>> With the upcoming release of GNOME 3.12 there is a brand new user-interface
>> for Gedit, GNOME's text editor...[image 1]
>>
>> Links:
>> [1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Phoronix/~4/UhJU_dzVaQU (image)
>
> 	I just hope the "bookmarks" and "most recent files" bugs get
> solved. They used to work on GNOME 2, but not with GNOME 3. (Using
> Debian Wheezy). I waste a lot of time looking for files I need to
> frequently edit.
> 	[]'s

I had a look at the screenshots and wasn't overly impressed.  They are 
messing with menus and stuff in a way that looks pretty (in fact it 
looks very much inspired by those floating menus that iOS uses) but at 
the expense of introducing extra keystrokes or mouse clicks to get stuff 
done.

If you follow the link through to that Silencio guy's blog
(http://blogs.gnome.org/pbor/2014/02/20/gedit-new-look/) I think this 
comment is pretty appropriate for the other changes made as well:

"The first picture looks wrong. Instead of having two buttons next to 
each other, there’s a drop-down list. Therefore instead of one action to 
switch (click a button), I need two actions (click the list, click the 
item). The drop-down list should be displayed only when there’s not 
enough horizontal space for the buttons to be displayed next to each 
other (I’m assuming that extensions can add additional buttons)."

It does *look* nice, but unfortunately that's not what I ask of my 
software.  (I still use Xemacs sometimes, and it's frikkin' ugly, let's 
face it).

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Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12 RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 11:41 +0000
  Re: Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12 Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-02-24 12:16 -0300
    Re: Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 18:00 +0000
      Re: Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12 Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-02-24 13:50 -0500
        Re: Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 20:46 +0000
          Re: Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12 Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-02-24 16:10 -0500
  Re: Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12 Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2014-03-08 19:10 +0000

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