Hi, On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:03 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote: > Steve Frécinaux wrote: > > You must agree that Notepad is just a piece of crap. > > Yes and no. For viewing things it would be perfectly okay if it could > handle foreign forms of line breaks. But I digress. The keyword is "simple."
And what is "simple"? A text editor should not be "simple" - otherwise, as you put it - it would be a text *viewer*. And no, we don't have a viewer for text/plain files. Maybe evince could be adapted for this; or maybe we need a "gnome-less" program. > > As Paolo Borelli said, the new gedit is faster than the old one. It has > > been partly rewritten and gained some needed features. Some of them, > > rarely used, has even been removed to be reimplemented as optional plugins. > > When a developer says it is faster, I cannot necessarily take it at face > value. For example, Gimp 2.x is undeniably faster than Gimp 1.x, but > its startup time is longer. Is it, therefore, faster? > > So, if I use Gimp as an image viewer, it's slower from my point of view. If you are using a round-shaped piece with a square-shaped hold... Gimp is an image *editor*; load time could be arbitrarily slow, since it should be launched for a long operation (image editing). Eye of Gnome is an image *viewer*: it must be fast and appear as such, since it will be what users will see the most, as any user will view images more often than will edit images. > I use gedit more as a viewer than an editor. If startup time is any > longer than before, then it is slower, from my point of view. It's not, the overall speed - and perception of it - has been improved, by a better use of the asynchronous functions, for instance. Anyway, the Python bindings do not affect the speed of Gedit - just the ability to create plug-ins for advanced functionalities, like the snippets plug-in. Creating such a plug-in using C would have been pain upon pain: using Python significantly made it easier to write and extend. I also expect a slew of new plug-ins after 2.14 lands. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Log: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
