On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]> 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).
Agreed. The way to make vim users happy is with solid <alt-x> open-file-in-vim for the @xxxx externals. Implementing a subset, however large, of vim capabilities, causes frustration. > > 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). > > Screenshots: > > http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/atom-editor-windows.jpg > > http://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/vsc.png > > http://www.cmstricks.com/assets/images/tutorials/soho-part1/template-tutorial%20(20).jpg > > (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. Leo files may well be 'better' for the purpose, but we're talking broad appeal, and familiar beats good, standard beats proprietary. YAML is very attractive for this purpose. > > 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 agreed. And make them persist across sessions, the lack of which prevents <alt-x> add-editor from being more attractive. > > 4. see if we could replace minibuffer with ctrl+shift+p like thing from > sublime/atom/vscode. Much more "impressive" and modern. > > 5. likewise, ctrl+p for "quick finding" nodes based on fuzzy matching on > headlines (like subliwe fuzzy matches file names on ctrl+p) > > -- > 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. -- 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.
