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potocpav / xi_glium

Glium-based front-end to the xi editor
MIT License
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Front-End Look and Feel #2

Open Bluebird45 opened 8 years ago

Bluebird45 commented 8 years ago

Every other cross-platform editor that I know of looks and behaves much the same in its different platform versions.

But Xi might, as things stand now, end up as multiple species of quite different editors with a common back-end.

If I were to build a xi front-end, efficiency/non-duplication of effort, as well as avoidance of user confusion, would cause me to make the UI look and conventions closely follow the canonical (OSX) front-end.

potocpav commented 8 years ago

So are you suggesting this project should mimic closely the original interface? A bit hard for me to do, when the only reference for the original is one screenshot :-)

Bluebird45 commented 8 years ago

It seems like that screenshot might be all there is.

For the time being I'm delving into his code, trying to understand it, unfamiliar with Objective-C as I am.

shssoichiro commented 8 years ago

Well, the creator of the original interface had said he wanted each platform's interface to "look native", i.e. Cocoa on OS X, GTK or QT on Linux.

Bluebird45 commented 8 years ago

Yes, I'm aware of that, so I'm seeking to follow his logic so as to apply it in another language.

NamPNQ commented 8 years ago

I hope it able to run in terminal and powerful like neovim, love your work