What is the easiest and most accessible editor?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

LOl Didier.

I like your third point. hahahaha

Cheers,

Ibrahim

On 11/30/21 12:16 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> I didn't wrote the message to which I answer.
>
> Maybe there are several Didiers?
>
> More seriously:
>
> 1. There is no GUI version. This is a command line app. But after having
> installed an application, it will have an entry in the Application 
> menu. To
> know more, after installation type:
> man flatpak
> flatpak --help
> you can run flatpak as regular user, it will ask root's password before
> installing/removing stuff.
> 2. Your understanding is correct.
> 3. Installing it won't hurt, as long as you don't use it ;)
>
> Didier
> -- 
> Didier Spaier
> Slint maintainer
>
> Le 30/11/2021 à 17:50, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>> 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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