I can echo the sentiment that first impressions count, as much as we hate that they do. Going "mainstream" requires quite a bit of hoop jumping. Perception becomes almost as important as function.
I can echo that my experience with the search feature on the website is that it barely works. I rarely reference the website because I can't search successfully the majority of the time. If I do use it I'm searching the website through google. I'll also throw my vote in for calling the minibuffer the command line, may I suggest that the text used just be "Command:", I think the "line" part is implied by the following actual line. My bits: - Code introspection/completion/analysis. This is a critical productivity booster that I wish was standard in Leo. This needs to be enabled out of the box to attract new users. - I'm expecting that Edward might disagree with this but a visual UI for altering the most commonly used settings would help new users make the transition into Leo's vastness. I would say that navigating the hundreds or thousands of options Leo has was a major hurdle for me. - Syntax highlighting performance. Most of the time performance is good enough. But when I want to look at a flat file view via @edit for larger files the performance is unacceptably slow. If I need to do flat file views of large files with syntax highlighting I need to switch editors. Imo, Leo is good enough as it is. What's not so good is outreach to the > rest of the world. Marketing, if you will. - Edward I will partially agree with you, Leo is good enough, *for us (power users)*. For the rest of the world I will disagree, they're expecting more "standard features" and more to be done* for them* before they jump on board. That doesn't mean we can't reach out, but Leo isn't ready for bringing in the average Joe, which is evident in that the average Joe is not here already. There are plenty of power users out there looking for the next awesome editor, that is the low hanging fruit Leo should target first. On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 3:44:23 AM UTC-4, reinhard...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > > >> An excellent suggestion is to reach out to magazine editors, get them >> excited... >> > > How? > Speaking of marketing: First impressions count! > > So: Update the documentation. > I.E.: Searching for '@clean' from the homepage of Leo gives: > 'Your search did not match any documents' > > The user interface still has a 'homegrown' look, i.e.: > - uncommon position of menubar and toolbar > - uncommon symbols in the 'toolbar' > - 'outdated' icons in the outline pane (Yes, they work, but their look is > so ascii-ish...) > - We still have a 'Minibuffer' instead of a 'Commandline' (Who knows what > a 'Minibuffer' is and does?) > > Reinhard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
