I'm using leafpad for simple text file editing. I have just installed Mousepad 0.4.0 to try it out on Fedora 27.
It seems to be lightweight, which is nice. But when I try to open a file, the "Engoding" dropdown menu is not usable. Clicking on it yields nothing. I often need to open legacy encoding files as well safe as legacy encoding (thank you windows for sticking to non-utf).
Another minor issue I see with mousepad is its uglier icon but I can live with it as long as the other functionality is fine.
Perhaps leafpad has not been updated because it does what it needs to do? I see a somehow newer fork for it at (still very old with very little modifications): https://github.com/oluc/leafpad
Mukundan Ragavan wrote on 03/17/18 17:15:
Hello folks,
I think it is time we retire leafpad from Fedora. Leafpad has not had a new release for ten years now [1]. I have already replaced leafpad with mousepad in the Xfce spin of Fedora [2]. Now that leafpad does not build on rawhide anyway (it's probably a easy fix; still ... ), I figured now might be a good time to talk about this.
Anyone still want to keep leafpad around?
Mukundan.
[1] http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ [2] https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/c/2f3d7c49f02fcbd5d08787f9d004da99cd2c9f14?br...
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