Gedit then and now

bgstack15 — Thu, 09 May 2019 12:50:55 GMT

This is a rant post, and not a how-to. Gedit is a simple text editor for the GNOME stack. I remember reading somewhere about the old and new gedit interfaces. The GNOME team has this plan to reduce and hide functionality, and gedit shows some of the changes. Gedit used to have a toolbar, and the regular titlebar and menus. But Gedit after GNOME has changed their thinking has hidden its functions. I don't really use gedit, because my text editing is more console driven, or else I use scite.

Backtracking my activities for the references

Web search gedit then and now which led to Slashdot comment #54946443 on article GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers which quotes Slashdot comment #48503821 on article Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? which includes links to two images Gedit_3.11.92.png [wikipedia.org] Gedit2261.png [wikipedia.org]

Compiling FreeFileSync on Fedora

bgstack15 — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:11:55 GMT

FreeFileSync is a great open source GUI application. Think of it as the GUI for rsync. The Freefilesync team does not provide an rpm of the software, but they do provide the source code. Now, the team does not allow direct linking, so that link has a HMTL5 rel="noreferrer" which might make it work for you.

Update:

I finally got a scriptlet to work with download the source code! Use this:

wget --referer "https://www.freefilesync.org/download/FreeFileSync_9.4_Source.zip" --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0" https://www.freefilesync.org/download/FreeFileSync_9.4_Source.zip

So, once you open up the zip file of the source code, you need to modify a few things. Please examine the patch I wrote:

diff -Naur FreeFileSync/Source/Makefile FreeFileSync.fc25/Source/Makefile
--- FreeFileSync/Source/Makefile    2017-10-05 09:54:58.000000000 -0400
+++ FreeFileSync.fc25/Source/Makefile   2017-10-22 21:33:01.445470939 -0400
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 LINKFLAGS = -s `wx-config --libs std, aui --debug=no` -lboost_thread -lboost_chrono -lboost_system -lz -pthread

 #Gtk - support recycler/icon loading/no button border/grid scrolling
-CXXFLAGS  += `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0`
-LINKFLAGS += `pkg-config --libs   gtk+-2.0`
+CXXFLAGS  += `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0`
+LINKFLAGS += `pkg-config --libs   gtk+-3.0`

 #support for SELinux (optional)
 SELINUX_EXISTING=$(shell pkg-config --exists libselinux && echo YES)
diff -Naur FreeFileSync/Source/RealTimeSync/Makefile FreeFileSync.fc25/Source/RealTimeSync/Makefile
--- FreeFileSync/Source/RealTimeSync/Makefile   2017-10-05 09:54:58.000000000 -0400
+++ FreeFileSync.fc25/Source/RealTimeSync/Makefile  2017-10-22 21:33:19.853796285 -0400
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 LINKFLAGS = -s `wx-config --libs std, aui --debug=no` -lboost_thread -lboost_chrono -lboost_system -lz -pthread

 #Gtk - support "no button border"
-CXXFLAGS  += `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0`
-LINKFLAGS += `pkg-config --libs   gtk+-2.0`
+CXXFLAGS  += `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0`
+LINKFLAGS += `pkg-config --libs   gtk+-3.0`

 CPP_LIST=
 CPP_LIST+=application.cpp
diff -Naur FreeFileSync/Source/ui/main_dlg.cpp source.fc25/FreeFileSync/Source/ui/main_dlg.cpp
--- FreeFileSync/Source/ui/main_dlg.cpp 2017-10-05 09:54:58.000000000 -0400
+++ FreeFileSync.fc25/Source/ui/main_dlg.cpp    2017-10-22 21:33:01.446470957 -0400
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@
         history.resize(globalSettings.gui.cfgFileHistMax);

     globalSettings.gui.cfgFileHistory = history;
-    globalSettings.gui.cfgFileHistFirstItemPos = m_listBoxHistory->GetTopItem();
+    //globalSettings.gui.cfgFileHistFirstItemPos = m_listBoxHistory-gt;GetTopItem();
     //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     globalSettings.gui.lastUsedConfigFiles.clear();
     for (const Zstring& cfgFilePath : activeConfigFiles_)
@@ -4862,6 +4862,7 @@

     m_menuItemCheckVersionAuto->Check(updateCheckActive(globalCfg_.gui.lastUpdateCheck));

+    /*
     if (shouldRunPeriodicUpdateCheck(globalCfg_.gui.lastUpdateCheck))
     {
         flashStatusInformation(_("Searching for program updates..."));
@@ -4869,6 +4870,7 @@
         periodicUpdateCheckEval(this, globalCfg_.gui.lastUpdateCheck, globalCfg_.gui.lastOnlineVersion,
                                 periodicUpdateCheckRunAsync(periodicUpdateCheckPrepare().get()).get());
     }
+    */
 }


@@ -4877,6 +4879,7 @@
     //execute just once per startup!
     Disconnect(wxEVT_IDLE, wxIdleEventHandler(MainDialog::OnRegularUpdateCheck), nullptr, this);

+    /*
     if (shouldRunPeriodicUpdateCheck(globalCfg_.gui.lastUpdateCheck))
     {
         flashStatusInformation(_("Searching for program updates..."));
@@ -4890,6 +4893,7 @@
                                     resultAsync.get()); //run on main thread:
         });
     }
+    */
 }

You will need a set of packages installed to compile:

dnf install -y boost-devel compat-wxGTK3-gtk2-devel gcc-c++ gtk+-devel gtk3-devel wxGTK-devel wxGTK3-devel

Knowledge Base (Posts about gui)

Gedit then and now

Backtracking my activities for the references

Compiling FreeFileSync on Fedora

Update: