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Re: Gedit gets a GUI makeover in Gnome 3.12

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> 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).

You should try Emacs instead.
Almost the same as XEmacs except for active support,
more features, and faster.

Anyway, if your XEmacs looks ugly, it's your own fault.
In my case, menubar turned off, tool bar turned off,
background black, default foreground Chartreuse,
Mode line wheat with 3d effect.

I don't see much of the editor except for the mode line,
but that's the way I want it.  And the text I'm editing
looks great.

-- 
Dan Espen

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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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