[Slackbuilds-users] leafpad vs. libgnomeprint/libgnomeprintui

[Ryan P.C. McQuen]

I just tried out medit after Beowulf's nice description. I bumped it up to
the latest version and let Erik know. I've attached the tarball here if
anyone else wants to build 1.2.0.

Cheers!

Ryan

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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Niki Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:

> Le 27/09/2014 02:13, King Beowulf a écrit :
>
>> It does print without those (just tested, Xfce slac64 multilib). BUT
>> print preview tries to fire up evince and when that failed, calibre
>> launched. Odd.
>>
>> However, it does have a few interface quirks and hasn't been updated
>> since 2010.  While that in itself isn't necessarily bad, in this case
>> leafpad is a bit behind and creaky.
>>
>> You might want to check out on SBo:
>>
>> medit: I like it. Simple GTK2, no extra deps. Nice context hghlighting,
>> tabs, fast and light.
>>
>> geany: more IDE bells and whistles than medit, more geared to code than
>> plain text.
>>
>> mousepad: based on leafpad but designed for Xfce. I haven't used it in
>> ages, but worth a try. It seems to be getting some new attention on
>> http://git.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/
>>
>
> Thanks a lot for all the details. I remember having tried out Mousepad a
> while ago, and it had some horrible bugs in it. I know Geany quite well,
> but I think it goes beyond a simple text editor for Joe User. I'll give
> MEdit a spin.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
>
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