Linked by Adam S on Tue 26th Aug 2008 13:10 UTC, submitted by linuxlinks
Periodically, there's a review of text editors for a particular platform. Linuxlinks' latest post is pretty thorough though, covering 21 different Linux/Unix text editors. "In many users' eyes, a text editor should be lean and mean, fast to start up and shut down, without fancy splash screens or a graphical user interface. The choice of editor has long stirred up strong emotions. [...] To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 21 high quality Linux text editors. There's a mix of graphical and console based applications included.
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Quanta+ does have a WYSIWYG editing mode, it's called VPL Editor (not sure what it stands for, but I'll guess it's not visible panty line). I don't really use it as I prefer hand-coding; using Dreamweaver (back in '02) taught me a healthy disrespect for WYSIWYG editors, I prefer to see exactly what's going on beneath.
When I did use it, on a page with some javascript, it crashed; then again, the same thing happened with N|VU ;-)
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I'm quite surprised by that comparison being made. Kompozer (I take it this is what used to be called N|VU?) has not 1% of the power of Dreamweaver, and any list that suggests this is the closest you can get to it on Linux is undermining the OS's credibility for web designers/developers.
I only used it or Bluefish for short periods, so feel free to disagree with this, but I choose Quanta+ as the nearest rival to DW. It still lacks a lot of the polish of Dreamweaver, but the UI is sanely organised and (as we expect from any KDE app) insanely tweakable so you can get it just right for your workflow. Project organisation features are well implemented, and the ability to work transparently on remote files (good old KIOslaves) is very neat and means you needn't have a whole copy of the project files on your local machine.
Extensibility is something that could be worked on a bit, to get nearer Dreamweaver's standard. The foundation is there: modules like KFileReplace, Kompare, KLinkStatus and KXSLDebug can be slotted-in, and AFAIK a simple API exists for integrating other external apps in this manner, and there's massive potential for workflow automation and GUI extension using Kommander scripts, but sadly there are virtually no scripts available that I know of. I'd love to see a well-stocked and well-publicised 'Quanta scripts' repository on kde-apps.org, hooked into a KHotNewStuff applet within the program, as seen in Amarok and Superkaramba.
Quanta is already a killer app for me, but it would have broader appeal if it had its own extension community (even commercial as well as OSS) like Dreamweaver has.