+1 on changing it to Text Editor for linux while I would keep it as "gedit Text Editor" for osx and windows.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Paolo Borelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > first of all thanks for the proposal of including gedit in the core > moduleset. > My opinion is still pretty much the same as the one I wrote in that old > mail you linked, so I would be happy to rename back to "Text Editor" in the > desktop file. For the moment consider this my personal opinion, before > making the change I want to check with Sèbastien and Nacho. > > Ciao, > > Paolo > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 >> <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2016-January/msg00009.html> >> [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2016-January/msg00010. >> html >> <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 >> <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-March/msg00128.html> >> > >
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