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Mousepad and leafpad are 2 different apps. In fact, the one is xfce's text editor and the other one is lxde's text editor.
If you have installed mousepad, you can launch it by typing "mousepad" on some run dialog or on the terminal.
I Substituted my leafpad with featherpad and juffed and I plan to keep one of them soon.
They might as well remove Xorg while they're at it, I have no use of a distro without leafpad. (Actually featherpad is probably ok, but this is still an abomination) Whatever next, Debian? Debian Genuine Advantage? Ubuntu Software Centre? (/One, whatever?) Subject us to Clippy? What have you become???
I'll just install it from Puppy, whatever.
Debian, the UN-iversal distro. (It was my favourite, not so long ago.)
In all fairness, last time leafpad was updated from upstream was 9 years ago, so yea, it can be named "abandoned". I am amazed it was in the repos for such long. And you are right, there is no other simple and lightweight gtk-based text editor at the moment (geany and gedit are excluded for obvious reasons). If it is so important for you, download the version from stable and keep it as long as it lasts.
I was at your position a few months ago, when they removed transmission-remote-cli from the repos with the excuse of "dead from upstream + python2 deprecation". I had made a request for them to get either tremc (fork of transmission-remote-cli in python3) or stig in the repos in early January of 2018 (= ~2 years ago), but none of them is in the repos yet. And the most absurd thing is that in the end of the removal notice it says "alternatives exist"! Where are they then?
LILO has been dead for years and it's still the official Slackware boot loader. No sign of that changing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If Leafpad works as expected it doesn't have to be changed. I've been using Mousepad but it's not an effective replacement.
Mind you, Leafpad is available on sid, but if the reason they removed it from stable is because it hasn't been updated for years I don't see that as good enough.
Nothing to do with you, jim, but I'm disappointed that they took it out when it looks like it wasn't even necessary.
Last edited by Lysander666; 12-27-2019 at 10:08 AM.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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.....If Leafpad works as expected it doesn't have to be changed. I've been using Mousepad but it's not an effective replacement......
We'll have to agree to disagree.
I've used them both and prefer Mousepad, if, for no other reason, Mousepad has a "open recent" function that Leafpad does not, or didn't the last time I used it (years ago now).
Mind you, Leafpad is available on sid, but if the reason they removed it from stable is because it hasn't been updated for years I don't see that as good enough.
Nothing to do with you, jim, but I'm disappointed that they took it out when it looks like it wasn't even necessary.
Leafpad has now been added to my 'important binary packages' folder along with Skype 8.29 [pre-dbus check] and Chromium 68 [pre-UI-rewrite].
I already had all the dependencies, I imagine they are part of the stock stable install.
Code:
lysander@psychopig-xxxvii:~$ dpkg -l | grep libcairo2
ii libcairo2:amd64 1.16.0-4 amd64 Cairo 2D vector graphics library
lysander@psychopig-xxxvii:~$ dpkg -l | grep libglib2.0-0
ii libglib2.0-0:amd64 2.58.3-2+deb10u2 amd64 GLib library of C routines
lysander@psychopig-xxxvii:~$ dpkg -l | grep libgtk2.0-0
ii libgtk2.0-0:amd64 2.24.32-3 amd64 GTK+ graphical user interface library
lysander@psychopig-xxxvii:~$ dpkg -l | grep libpango-1.0-0
ii libpango-1.0-0:amd64 1.42.4-7~deb10u1 amd64 Layout and rendering of internationalized text
lysander@psychopig-xxxvii:~$ dpkg -l | grep libpangocairo-1.0-0
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0:amd64 1.42.4-7~deb10u1 amd64 Layout and rendering of internationalized text
lysander@psychopig-xxxvii:~$ dpkg -l | grep libc6
ii libc6:amd64 2.28-10 amd64 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libc6:i386 2.28-10 i386 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libc6-amd64:i386 2.28-10 i386 GNU C Library: 64bit Shared libraries for AMD64
ii libc6-dev:amd64 2.28-10 amd64 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
Last edited by Lysander666; 12-28-2019 at 05:36 AM.
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