What’s the deal with gedit? I upgraded using the migration tool, and now have gedit 48.2 and Text Editor 48.3, both from the GNOME project. gedit is still my default text editor. Can I remove one of these?
@jonc Text Editor is the replacement for gedit. Transition time?
I configure up via a script using for example gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor show-line-numbers 'true' etc
Of course you can remove one of them, or both.
Text Editor is the “new default” since it uses GTK4, follows the system theme etc.
OTOH gedit still has some features loved by coders and sysadmins that Text Editor lacks, being more a layman editor, nicer to look at but somewhat basic on features.
So gedit is not going away soon and if you had it in 15.6 you still find it upgraded in 16.0.
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Yes, no plugins yet for Text Editor. For main configuration, it provides nearly the same options/features.
Gnome is also changing its basic console, from gnome-terminal to gnome-console. For this one, we’re far away : no profile, very (too) simple for now.
2023’s but still useful to get a quick overview :
I use ptyxis with the quake terminal extension so it drops down on key press…
I take it gedit is still maintained? The other one sounds like a downgrade, but for integration purposes.
@jonc AFAIK, yes. Not here it does what I need it to from a typing in code perspective, changelog and text files. I can theme/format it the same as gedit.