Orwell 0.1 beta 1 released!

[Chris Neary]

I really can't see the point in this 'editor' at all as a text editor. I can
see how it would be a nice idea for a note-taker though. I remember using
something back in my pre-Linux days on the Aston graphical Windows shell -
it was a notepad application that 'stuck' to the desktop, as if embedded
into the wallpaper, and it had a tabbed interface like gEdit, and autosaved
your notes to .DAT files in a system directory.

It was quite cool in that you never had to worry about actually saving or
loading files: Just open a new tab to create a new note ('file'), and to
'save' your work, just -- do nothing. Great stuff!

Its use was limited to making notes for software I was working on though - I
would never write code in such an application. It's unfeasable! Maybe you
should reconsider the direction of the application.

This is all positive feedback by the way, don't take it too roughly. :-)

The world only needs MORE open source software, let's not get on this guy's
back too much.

Cheers,
Chris

On 23/05/06, Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5/22/06, The Wiz <me at kbrooks.ath.cx> wrote:
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> > Orwell differs from gedit in that it does NOT use the filesystem
> > like some text editors (such as gedit) do. Making people use the
> > filesystem for saving and opening is bad because it is not very usable.
> > I should put in a link to the screenshots in my release
> > announcements. Anyway, the screenshots are at:
> > http://kbrooks.ath.cx/index.php/2006/05/20/orwell-screenshots/
>
> Huh, you mean I'm so stupid I can't figure out how to use the
> filesystem? Then how the hell do you expect me to check out the code
> from svn and build it?
>
> Todd
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