I wish I had friends offline I could talk to and do something with etc in-person. The loneliness gets a bit overwhelming sometimes :neocat_sad:
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@aylamz in case it happens to help:
meeting people offline is enjoyable at times, but damn if it isn't exhausting :blobfoxupsidedowndizzy:
the end-of-the-year festive season is finally over for me, and they're trying to make me socialize yet again in just a couple weeks and i havent cancelled my going yet [or rsvp'd in the negative anyway, whichever works], i just want to hole up in a dungeon for at least a couple weeks and hope no one interrupts me
just briefly saw your progress on the code editor thing, how's it going? anything specific you're thinking of coming up next? would it happen to be in a state where i could take it for a spin and see how it's shaping up and perhaps report on what's working || what's not?
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@banaanihillo > just briefly saw your progress on the code editor thing, how's it going? anything specific you're thinking of coming up next? would it happen to be in a state where i could take it for a spin and see how it's shaping up and perhaps report on what's working || what's not?
I haven't made too much visible progress; mostly I've been reading source code of GNOME Text Editor and also GNOME Builder developer documentation to see how things are done there, and learning more about Vala, GtkSourceView, GNOME stuff in general etc.
Next things I'm thinking of working on are: detecting if a file has changed on disk and showing a banner that prompts the user to discard changes and reload; showing an indicator if current file has unsaved changes; confirmation prompt if user tries to close file with unsaved changes - and other basic stuff like that.
So you can try it out if you want but it's extremely bare-bones right now - you can load files, make changes to them and save them but that's pretty much it.
What do you think of the app icon though? Any ideas for a better one? I think the current one looks very meh and uninspired.
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@aylamz ah, sorry, only had a chance to look at the codeberg page thus far and didn't run into an icon [and i had images disabled the first time i looked anyway :D], am i looking in the wrong place?
honestly though, that's just about the functionality i'd want out of a text editor on the desktop that is still stuck on ubuntu - nano is great for its specific purposes, but clipboard management is a bit of a chore, gedit is alright i guess until you forget its unconventional keyboard layout that you can't change, emacs requires a whole host of separate keybindings that i still haven't learned either, and i probably forgot some details about everything else
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@banaanihillo I meant to ask you btw: what do you think of GNOME Text Editor? Anything specific you like or dislike about it? :neocat:
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@aylamz yeah the one that was included by default on debian stable? that's exactly the kind of get-out-of-your-way nothing but text i was thinking of! i can't remember if i've tried to install it on this old piece of junk ubuntu 22.04 because this one just defaults to gedit which isn't necessarily bad but it's not good either?
did it exist before and they just happened to make it the default now? or is it something new that does require a more recent gnome version?
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@banaanihillo gedit is rather old, GNOME Text Editor is much newer. I don't know when it was made the default but repo itself is 4 years old. Important to note also that GNOME defaults and Ubuntu defaults differ. The latest Ubuntu version (as far as I know) still defaults to the old GNOME Terminal for example instead of GNOME Console.
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@aylamz ohhh hey by the way,
would you have any idea how to change the default terminal on debian stable on gnome? it currently defaults to the blinding white thing i have been unable to configure, and i can't remember which is called which, i mean everything else pretty much works but i'd love it if i could change which terminal it opens in when you select the "open in terminal" context menu item within the file explorer [nautilus?], is that a debian thing, a gnome thing, a nautilus thing, something else?
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@banaanihillo Linux doesn't really have a concept of 'default terminal' as far as I know. (There is a way to set default browser, mail client etc as you may know so I'm not sure why there isn't default terminal)
The "open in terminal" menu item in Nautilus is provided by a nautilus extension, so it's not really easy to change. The package name of this extension on Feodra is gnome-terminal-nautilus, I simply uninstalled that to get rid of it.
Someone did make an extension for using any terminal though, I've not tried it so I don't know if/how well it works: https://github.com/Stunkymonkey/nautilus-open-any-terminal :neocat_think:
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