[Pkg-xfce-devel] ITP: mousepad-- Simple text editor for Xfce

[Simon Huggins]

'ello Debian

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:50:12PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

> * Package name    : mousepad
>   Version         : 0.2.2
>   Upstream Author : Erik Harrison <erikharrison@gmail.com>
> * URL             : http://erikharrison.net
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : Simple text editor for Xfce


Hmm.  How about Simple GTK text editor?  Or something.  Why is it "for
Xfce"?  Unless it build-depends on Xfce stuff I'd rather it wasn't I
think.

>  Mousepad is a text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad. The initial reason for
>  Mousepad was to provide printing support, which would have been difficult
>  for Leafpad for various reasons.

It's a GUI right?  I think we should say so somewhere.  I'm assuming
it's GTK based... and again I would s/for Xfce//

>  .
>  Although some features are under development, currently Mousepad has
>  following features:
>    * Complete support for UTF-8 text
>    * Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text
>    * Search and Replace
>    * Font selecton
>    * Word Wrap
>    * Character coding selection
>    * Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some codesets)
>    * Manual codeset setting
>    * Infinite Undo/Redo by word
>    * Auto Indent
>    * Multi-line Indent
>    * Display line numbers
>    * Drag and Drop
>    * Printing

Simon, a vim user.

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