As promised, I wanted to write a blog post about this application.
Enter TeX is a TeX / LaTeX text editor previously named LaTeXila and then GNOME LaTeX. It is based on the same libraries as gedit.
Renames
LaTeXila was a fun name that I picked up when I was a student back in 2009. Then the project was renamed to GNOME LaTeX in 2017 but it was not a great choice because of the GNOME trademark. Now it is called Enter TeX.
By having "TeX" in the name is more future-proof than "LaTeX", because there is also Plain TeX, ConTeXt and GNU Texinfo. Only LaTeX is currently well supported by Enter TeX, but the support for other variants would be a welcome addition.
Note that the settings and configuration files are automatically migrated from LaTeXila or GNOME LaTeX to Enter TeX.
There is another rename: the namespace for the C code has been changed from "Latexila" to "Gtex", to have a shorter and better name.
Other news
If you're curious, you can read the top of the NEWS file, it has all the details.
If I look at the achievements file, there is also the port from Autotools to Meson that was done recently and is worth mentioning.
Known issue for the icons
Enter TeX unfortunately suffers from a combination of changes in adwaita-icon-theme and GThemedIcon (part of GIO). Link to the issue on GitLab.
Compare the two screenshots and choose the one you prefer:
As an interim solution, what I do is to install adwaita-icon-theme 41.0 in the same prefix as where Enter TeX is installed (not a system-wide prefix).
To summarize
- LaTeXila -> GNOME LaTeX -> Enter TeX
- C code namespace: Latexila -> Gtex
- Build system: Autotools -> Meson
- An old version of adwaita-icon-theme is necessary.
This article was written by Sébastien Wilmet, currently the main developer behind Enter TeX.