On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:17:35 AM UTC+2, Steve wrote: > As the author of Cream, I'm very interested in gVim having a few > more OS-standard widgets.
How interested? Interested enough to help me implement it? > 1. With just a few widgets, gVim *could* be customized to look ... > 2. Outrageous amounts of effort have gone into developing GUI ... > 3. There are broader types of text editor usage that these ... > 4. Non-refocusing find/replace dialogs are crazy. :) Four very good points! :) > 2. Multiple platform implementation. Windows-only doesn't cut it. > Many Vim users need similar features across at least Windows and > Linux/Gnome/GTK. (There are lots of single-OS editors out there > already.) Windows is my only desktop OS, so that's the only implementation that I'm personally in need of. But a GTK implementation would absolutely be a good thing to have! And while I agree that there are a lot of single-OS editors, there is none that I have found that is as good as or better than vim for a lot of tasks, so a single-OS implementation of a more modern gui for gvim would still have its merits. > 3. Self-motivated developer(s). Given the current expectations of > the community, there won't be much support for advanced GUI > features. Why do you think that would be the case? > but implementation will require ownership and attention to > detail to ensure they work well and bug-free. Isn't this always the case? ;) > 4. Tiny scopes. I would recommend implementing each GUI feature > independently of the others. A special library for everything is > too hard to write, control and patch. Use conventions like > +gui_statusbar, +gui_dialog_-widgets, and +font_prop. By > implementing features in small steps, they can be developed and > tested more quickly. Sounds like a great plan! > -- > Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ] // Tobbe -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
