A new year begins, a good time to share some various news about gedit.
gedit-text-editor.org
gedit has a new domain name for its website:
Previously, the gedit homepage was on the GNOME wiki, but the wiki has been retired. So a new website has been set up.
Some work on the website is still necessary, especially to better support mobile devices (responsive web design), and also for printing the pages. If you are a seasoned web developer and want to contribute, don't hesitate to get in touch!
Wrapping-up statistics for 2024
The total number of commits in gedit and gedit-related git repositories in 2024 is: 1042. More precisely:
300 enter-tex 365 gedit 52 gedit-plugins 50 gspell 13 libgedit-amtk 54 libgedit-gfls 47 libgedit-gtksourceview 161 libgedit-tepl
It counts all contributions, translation updates included.
The list contains two apps, gedit and Enter TeX. The rest are shared libraries (re-usable code available to create other text editors).
Enter TeX is a TeX/LaTeX editor previously named LaTeXila and GNOME LaTeX. It depends on Gedit Technology and drives some of its development. So it makes sense to include it alongside gedit. A blog post about Enter TeX will most probably be written, to shed some light on this project that started in 2009.
Onwards to 2025
The development continues! To get the latest news, you can follow this blog or, alternatively, you can follow me on Mastodon.
This article was written by Sébastien Wilmet, currently the main developer behind gedit.