On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with the fact that we need a simpler text editor, but let's > just call it as "Textpad" or something....... without excluding gedit.
Nobody is excluding gedit. The gedit developers *want* their project to be called "gedit" rather than "Text Editor" [0]. The fact that some distributions disrespect that wish and rebrand gedit downstream is not enough of a reason to pick a weaker name for a different[1] upstream project in my opinion. [0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153995 is fairly old, but the response to more recent attempts to rebrand gedit has been the same as far as I know [1] I'm explicitly not saying "competing" - as Jasper has pointed out, the target audience is quite different _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
