💾 Archived View for envs.net › ~pen › log › pluma.gmi captured on 2023-04-26 at 13:43:50. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
⬅️ Previous capture (2022-03-01)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
gemini://blog.locrian.zone/pluma
Today I found out about Pluma, a fork of Gedit from back before they stuck all the options inside a stupid hamburger menu!
I love Pluma, too. Still, I wonder, whether or maybe better, *when* MATE and Cinnamon merge somehow. There's already the X-Apps with xreader, xed, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Apps
Should Linux Mint and Ubuntu MATE "merge" or should maybe MATE rely solely on the X-Apps, too? Actually I wouldn't mind a supported upgrade-path from Ubuntu MATE to Linux Mint at this moment and let Ubuntu MATE "die". Years ago I did not grasp the success of Mint, but nowadays Cinnamon is my preferred Desktop Environment, which is developed by the Mint crew. Cinnamon feels fast and offers high usability for my taste, e.g. tapping on the Win-key and entering a program's name reacts much faster than in GNOME. Also in recent GNOME I don't like how far mouse ways are when relying on the mouse to start applications: fling into the top-left hot corner ("easy target", ok), but then go all the way down to the bottom and middle of the screen to choose the application to start.
Why Linux Mint instead of Ubuntu MATE now? I disliked Ubuntu's decision to use Snaps for Firefox, and now Mint seems to have found a more direct solution …