What is the easiest and most accessible editor?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,


When I run Slint, my twitter client, Cawbird is not natively available 
threw either slapt-get or slapt-src, so I install it using flatpak. 
Applications such as Skype is also easier to install and maintain using 
flatpak. Yes, I know you can probably install it some other way, but why 
make your own life harder?

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent from the Fedora machine, using Thunderbird

On 2021/11/30 18:50, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> What would a flatpak do for me as a desktop gui user? My understanding 
> is that is supposed to allow me to run packages which are not part of 
> the distribution in what is so called a sandbox. but if the gui 
> version of it is not accessible it would be of limited use for me. I 
> will install it anyway once you make it available.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Didier
>
> On 11/29/21 7:22 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Hi Ibrahim and All,
>>
>> no Micro is not provided by Slint (yet). I learned its existence 
>> today <smile>.
>>
>> I have built flatpak and pipe-viewer and also its GUI gtk-pipe-viewer 
>> (not fully
>> accessible, but nice).
>>
>> It took me more time than anticipated, but expect a big batch of 
>> updates for
>> Slint tomorrow (37 packages, including the many dependencies of file 
>> viewer).
>>
>> I did some reading and tests with flatpak, and wouldn't recommend to 
>> use that,
>> especially if space on disk is a concern.
>> Worth reading about that:
>> https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future
>> However, "chose promise, chose due" as we say here, a flatpak package 
>> will be
>> available for Slint users tomorrow.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Didier
>>
>> Le 30/11/2021 à 00:30, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>>> Thanks a bundle for all of you folks. I did not know how much of a 
>>> discussion my innocent and naive question would generate. I learned 
>>> a lot from your answers. Although I have never messed with 
>>> configuration files since the days of the autoexec.bat in the days 
>>> of dos, I think I have enough courage to play with changing some 
>>> configuration settings using some of the editors you suggested.
>>>
>>> I launched few of them both in the desktop and in the terminal and I 
>>> found geany and nano to be easy. I did not find Micro, I guess it is 
>>> not preinstalled on slint.
>>>
>>> I know that my editing needs would be very basic.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Ibrahim
>>
>>
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