On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My problem, at least at present, is keeping track of all the cool >> things that plugins can already do. > > Tell me about it. I've been thinking lately that all these plugins could be considered a "good thing" or not. This is blue-sky thinking. Imo, many of Leo's features are useful and fairly main stream. The alt-x commands come to mind. Any yet, featurism may sometimes be a symptom of underlying weakness. Indeed, Leo could be considered a unifying framework that makes many features of IDE's redundant. In particular, the plugins I have a hard time remembering seem to relate to more advanced aspects of data handling: rendering, organizing, searching, etc. For example, when we see "nifty" graphing and data presentation tool the natural desire is to integrate those "features" into Leo. There is nothing wrong with that, but I am wondering whether there isn't something more fundamental that could be added. In particular (again), I have the feeling that something important is missing from the Leo interface, but I can't say exactly what. This "something" is *not* simply a way of adding more features :-) It would have to be something fundamental, like Leo's clones or Leo's integration of outlines with programs. As a first approximation, consider Leo to be text, organization and rendering. Text can represent non-text things like movies, so text (rather than the more general term "data") should suffice. Just some thoughts for the collective subconscious... Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
