gedit 48 has been released and is available on the three main desktop operating systems. Let's look at the highlights of this new version.
Dark theme
The dark theme support has already been covered.
World/gedit/ subgroup on GNOME's GitLab
The main Git repositories of gedit are now all hosted under the World/gedit/ subgroup on GNOME's GitLab. It currently includes gedit, gedit-plugins and all the libgedits.
Previously, there was the problem that the libgedits - hosted on GitHub - didn't receive new translations. This is now resolved, all the relevant modules are on l10n.gnome.org. Thanks to the amazing work done by the GNOME translation teams, gedit is available in many languages with high quality translations!
Summary of changes for plugins
Concerning the plugins, there is unfortunately a bad news. The following plugins have been removed:
- External Tools
- Git
- Quick Open
- Snippets
There are several reasons:
- The primary reason is to have less code to maintain for the core gedit developers.
- Some of these plugins had bugs that made the application to crash. It is time consuming to investigate and properly fix such issues.
- And, it is always possible for other developers to bring a second life to a removed plugin, by copying the code into another repository. See the list of third-party plugins for some examples.
Other changes
- The Text Size plugin has been promoted: it has been moved from the gedit-plugins repository to the main gedit repository, and is now enabled by default. So you can now zoom in and zoom out the text more easily.
- As always, there are a plethora of other little changes to improve the code quality.
To conclude
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