Re: retiring leafpad - thoughts?

Actually I don't even see an option to save file in a selected encoding
in mousepad.

Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote on 03/19/18 10:33:
> 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?branch=master
>>
>>
>>
>>
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