Re: Feedback on Debian 7.0
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Nikolas Kallis <nik@nikolaskallis.com> writes:
>> Another thing I am pissed off about is the lack of a graphical
>> text-editor being included in Debian 7.0. The last time I checked, my
>> calendar said 2013, and as so, would not expect a text-editor not being
>> included in a desktop-environment based operating system.
>> I know there is the 'nano' command line based text-editor included in
>> Debian 7.0, but I, along with 99.999% of the world uses their computer
>> in a desktop environment, so a text-editor should be included.
> This is another one of those documentation problems, I think. There are
> oodles and oodles and oodles of graphical text editors in Debian. I bet
> there are over twenty different ones, at least. At least one of them is
> included in the default GNOME environment (gedit) and the KDE environment
> (Kate), but there are tons of other ones, ranging from old-school ones
> like Emacs to much newer editors like Scribes.
> How did you try to find one? It would help us to know where you looked so
> that we can figure out how to get this documented in the correct place.
Additional off-line discussion revealed that the system installation was
done off-line, so sources.list contained only deb lines for the first
CD-ROM plus commented-out lines for wheezy-updates and security.
It would probably be a good idea for the installer to add commented-out
sources.list lines for the main archive, even if the installation is done
off-line. (Assuming that it doesn't, but Nikolas's experience seems to
indicate that it doesn't.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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