On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 8:51:25 AM UTC-4, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > > There is another thread on focusing on marketing instead of feature > development. I agree on this (esp. for features like vim-bindings, which > would likely be misplacement of limited development time, as vim users will > always be using vim and the result would be bad anyway). > Wholeheartedly agree.
> There are some ideas to increase "instant appeal", which plays directly to > marketing (first step is to get people try leo, the second step is to make > them spend more than 15 minutes in it). > > 1. Make a dark theme the default, and ensure it looks good on Windows, OSX > and Linux. Make font sizes etc like those in atom, sublime text, Visual > Studio Code and Firefox Developer edition (just examples to reflect what I > consider "modern" look and feel). > Absolutely wholeheartedly agree. Some may think it is silly but I also have suggested that the head and tail of the scrollbars be rounded similarly to the default on OSX. This looks "modern", it's a simple change to the qt stylesheet that I've posted before. Also for default dark theme also make the colored +/- expand contract tree icons default, they do help those who like distinct states indicated by color and for those two don't I doubt they care either way. (we could even adjust tab look and feel to match this look!) > > 2. .ini or .json based configuration (instead of .leo format), again like > in Sublime Text or VSCode. Current system requires too much Leo buy-in > already > Agreed. Great idea, json is widely known and standard and it would be simple, but tedious to write the code to read these in and set Leo settings. And in fact you could retain the Leo system for compatibility and current for the current Leo userbase and just have the json file (if present) override myLeoSettings.leo (or others). > > 3. See if we could make tabs for node editors (richt click on node -> open > as tab). This is in line with how people use e.g. browsers these days. Like > "stickynote" but for tabs, that is > I've wished for this many times but somehow didn't know how to articulate it. This would be freaking awesome! > 4. see if we could replace minibuffer with ctrl+shift+p like thing from > sublime/atom/vscode. Much more "impressive" and modern. > To terry, this is how sublime works. I agree that the pop-up style is more "modern" but to a greater point, the minibuffer 99% of the time is just taking up screen real estate and not doing anything. There is not a lot of reason to have it there on the screen unless somebody wants it there on the screen Great to hear from you Ville. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
