Re: gnustep general impressions and possible bugs in PC, gorm, etc

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 28 janv. 05, à 22:24, Riccardo a écrit :

> ProjectCenter:
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> I am very happy to see a lot of improvment in it since the last time! 
> It crashes rarely but much more important it has now support for 
> NSTypes and some other necessay things to build PRICE and so I am now 
> migrating the project to this new release. Also I see that several of 
> my suggestions of my alst time have been implemented. Still I have 
> some notes.
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> - when using the "Project Editor" and leaving the other panels inside 
> the project window (not tear-off) I cannot switch back from the 
> "builder" or "launcher" back to the editor. I suppose clicking on an 
> open file shoud do that or the thirt button in the toolbar which is 
> inactive. Tearing off the build and launch panel makes the editor 
> usable when "docked"

hm, I noticed the same behavior (just to confirm).

> - the text editor has bugs. For example it can happen that when 
> deleting characters with backspace at the beginning of a line, instead 
> of teleting the new-line itself, the new line remains and the 
> characters at teh end of the upper line are deleted (while the cursor 
> remains in the lower line at the leftmost char). It maybe a gnustep 
> bug instead of PC, but I cannot reporduce it in TextEdit for example.

Strange ! I guess that PC just use NSTextView..

> - the editor is very "simple", a "go to line" funciton would ease 
> debugging :)

yes, what would be nice would be to integrate CodeEditor in PC ..
> TextEdit:
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> - the "show ruler" has no effect at all

it's a GNUstep bug afaik.
> overall the experience is good... although I tried to convince a 
> friend to adopt GNUstep as his workspace and essentiaÚlly the main  
> question was "but what applications do I run with it" and so we have 
> again that ever-recurring issue.

eh, I convainced my friend at the lab.. the only problem is he needs 
C++ ... :-/

Cheers,

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Nicolas Roard
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