Dear Community, With regard to text editors, I believe the approach employed by KDE, of having different text editors for different audiences, has significant merit. Although all text editors are primarily aimed at the input and manipulation of text, there is such a great variation between what is required by a coder, scripter or other people who undertake a great deal of data manipulation and those who want a basic utility for jotting down information and so on.
There is already a good and extremely popular basic text editor tool developed for GNOME called Leafpad. It would be good to see this included in the core of GNOME. Development effort could then be invested in making GEdit into a tool that is approximately the equivalent of Kate. The user needs of two extremely diverse audiences could the be met. At the moment, I think it would be fair to say that GEdit does not really meet anyone's requirements. It lacks block-selection, good syntax highlighting and numerous other features needed by coders yet it is not fast and simple enough for low-end users. I am also in agreeance with the previous poster who referred to Lotus Smartsuite. This was definitely by far the most usable suite I ever encountered. The interface was incredibly elegant. I definitely think that Calum's people should investigate and research this office suite further as there are lessons regarding the user interface that could be applied to Star Office/OpenOffice.org _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
