Hi gedit developers, On the release-team mailing list, we've been revisiting our moduleset definitions, with the goal of defining a clear set of core apps that form the default experience in GNOME, and another set of non-core apps that follow the HIG and are awesome but are not installed by default. Some of the benefits to this are discussed at [1].
Currently gedit is not in core, but basically all distributors are including it in the default experience anyway. It seems quite desirable for gedit to be in core; I give some reasons for this at [2]. It's not absolutely required -- we could easily throw together a simple previewer or editor to serve this role -- but I think it would be much nicer to have gedit. One issue is that we want all core apps to have unbranded, generic names in the desktop file; this is to distinguish core apps from other applications. Currently gedit is the only application that we would like to see in core which would really need to be renamed to be included. I see at [3] this was considered in the past. My request is to change the name in the desktop file to "Text Editor" or something along those lines, like Ubuntu does. De-branding the about dialog is encouraged but *not required* for gedit to be a core app. Thanks for considering this request, Michael [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2016-January/msg00009. html [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2016-January/msg00010. html [3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-March/msg00 128.html _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
