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Scratchpad 0.3.0 released

Submitted by Daniel Borgmann on Wed, 2006-09-27 08:41. Bag of Software
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Scratchpad is a lightweight but useful spatial text editor. This is the first release after the port to Vala, which means that Scratchpad runs natively now and does not require Mono anymore. Another new feature is tag-based replacing, as demonstrated in this screencast:

http://dborg.wordpress.com/files/2006/09/scratchpad-replace.gif

Homepage and screenshots can be found at: http://dborg.wordpress.com/scratchpad/

Vala is a new programming language for the GNOME platform, which offers a C#-like syntax and modern language features but compiles directly to C code and is closely tight to GLib. More information can be found at: http://vala.paldo.org/

Thanks. The file menu

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-09-27 14:34.

Thanks. The file menu already only contains Close and an option to open the current folder of the document. ;-)

Still too much... (=

Probably is bold, but here you are trying to gain a spotlight on a crowded arena (text editors), so shock the audience, nuke the "File" menu, they'll find it pretty empty nonetheless.

To close the document/editor should be enough the window close button, i'm not an expert in interfaces, but having two ways to do the same task IMHO isn't optimal.

About the revision browser you are right, without assistence from the desktop became a mess to track external changes...

Andrea

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