GNOME Text Editor is the default text editor for theGNOMEdesktop environment. The program is afree and open-source graphicaltext editor included as part of theGNOME Core Applications.[3] GNOME Text Editor has been the default text editor for GNOME since GNOME version 42, which was released in March 2022.[4] GNOME Text Editor replacesgedit as GNOME's default text editor, and was created due to the GNOME developers' intention of having all of their programs comply with theGNOME Human interface guidelines (HIG).[5] The adherence to their HIG is done by using thelibadwaita library, and making gedit compliant with that would have required an extensive rewrite of gedit's code, so a new program was written from scratch instead.[6]
GNOME Text Editor was created byGNOME Builder's creator Christian Hergert.[7] The program was officially announced in March 2021 via a blog post by Hergert.[8] The text editor is built using theAdwaita design language[9] andGTK 4.[10] The text editor has features including themes,dark mode, session restoration,[11]autosave,[5] the ability to zoom into text without changing the text's size,[12] custom font support, and opening files can be done via apopover box.[13]
Ubuntu replaced gedit, the text editor that had been Ubuntu's default text editor since 2004, with GNOME Text Editor inUbuntu 22.10, citing Text Editor's adherence to desktop standards like dark mode and other GNOME design standards.[14]Linux distributions that use GNOME 42 have also replaced gedit with GNOME Text Editor, includingFedora 36.[15]
^González, Diego Germán (March 1, 2022)."The new GNOME text editor".Linux Adictos.Archived from the original on September 26, 2022. RetrievedSeptember 26, 2022.
