Re: Why Gedit's dependency on Python

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 10/2/06, Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:05 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > On 10/2/06, Fang sun <sunfangsolvethis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi, Tshepang, there is a pythonconsole plugin, pyton binding and an
> > > externalpanel plugin for gedit, which mainly depends on PyGTK.
> >
> > I was not aware. I actually thought another package would provide the
> > plugins. Wouldn't that be a better idea than having a bloated text
> > editor which is still given the  description of being light-weight, or
> > is this in comparison with OpenOffice.org?
>
> No, gedit itself is ligthweight, that word doesn't talk about
> dependencies, but about memory footprint and features, etc.  (Ie. it
> doesn't include implementation of LISP, which every decent text editor
> must have :-).

I am having about 20KB of files open here and Gedit cunsumes 35MB
which includes 3MB of shared memory. It also takes noticeably-long to
start up, even on a P4 2.6 GHz. It also has a handful of features
which include those that Fang sun has mentioned above. I actually had
an idea that Gedit's 'light-weight' description is just a result of
history instead of the current situation.

> You are pulling whole GNOME just for Gedit anyway, and there are already
> many other packages depending on gnome which are in base GNOME
> installation (like alacarte menu editor which got promoted to be in
> default GNOME).
>
> If you really want dependency-lightweight editor you should try leafpad,
> which uses just gtk2.0.

I'll try that one...