Hi, When seeing the tentative design of the future GNOME IDE [1] (for JavaScript), it seems that Anjuta is not a good base. Anjuta is a general-purpose IDE with a completely different design. It's probably better to create a new application to focus only on JavaScript.
The new application would use GtkSourceView, of course, but it's far from sufficient for having the text editor part of the IDE. For this, why not reusing the gedit internals? I plan to make the gedit source code more reusable, and create a libgedit (or another name), for the GSoC this year. The architecture of the gedit code is simpler than Anjuta's. I don't know the details, but Anjuta makes an abstraction above GtkSourceView and Scintilla (a similar library), which complexify the architecture. In my opinion, it's better to enhance GtkSourceView if some features are missing. So that's why I think gedit is a better base for the text editor part of the future GNOME IDE. What do you think? Sébastien [1] https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/IDE _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
