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Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by etatoby »

coldtea wrote: post #16
swah wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sublime fans and VSC fans are almost disjoint sets...

You'd be surprised. I'm tempted to go to the VSC side from time to time because of the more polish -- it's the speed that brings me back.

You'd t think with their big team and resources, they would have been able to use a more performant cross platform toolkit, say Qt or maybe some of their .Net stuff.

Why did they choose to base their editor on Electron, of all things, especially considering the existing results of Atom (horrible) is beyond me.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by etatoby »

izietto wrote: post #35
wbond wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This thread has the new icon and screenshots of the Default and Adaptive themes: https://twitter.com/wbond/status/851979232477671424

Is there a way to have the same files icon in the sidebar? I just want to discern from folders and files, I don't care about file extensions

I'm pretty sure the icons are up to the theme. You could take your favorite theme, duplicate its directory, and edit the icon definition file.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by tajen »

prima-facie wrote: post #30

Great release! Is there any way to donate to SublimeText? We already have licenses at work, but would like to donate $10 or so to show support.

It's already $70. I'm ok paying for my tools (I have a policy of no-piracy at my company, which is really weird in my country – We've bought IntelliJ, Affinity, etc), but paying $70 for a text editor is just above my threshold. I took out my credit card and went to the website thinking I had bought my first license at $50, but when I saw it asked for $70, for a closed-source license, I didn't complete the purchase.

I donate 1% of my revenue to open-source, by the way.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by Philipp__ »

etatoby wrote: post #41
coldtea wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd be surprised. I'm tempted to go to the VSC side from time to time because of the more polish -- it's the speed that brings me back.

You'd t think with their big team and resources, they would have been able to use a more performant cross platform toolkit, say Qt or maybe some of their .Net stuff. Why did they choose to base their editor on Electron, of all things, especially considering the existing results of Atom (horrible) is beyond me.

They went that way because of TypeScript I suppose. And in the end VSC is great marketing for successful open source JS/TS project.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by et-al »

Kudos wrote: post #33
jasonlfunk wrote: post #5

I know that it's probably just change aversion... but I'm not a huge fan of the new icon. But I'm happy for the update!

Link for the lazy: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9LqjoBXYAE-P6k.png I think it's much better than the previous one, but I've always replaced the icon for that with this anyway: https://dribbble.com/shots/1836652-Final-Round-Sublime-Icon I think I'll leave the new one in place for a while and see whether it grows on me.

Nice, I really like that Dribbble icon. The new official one is a generic ribbon that we see too much of.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by SippinLean »

Kudos wrote: post #33
jasonlfunk wrote: post #5

I know that it's probably just change aversion... but I'm not a huge fan of the new icon. But I'm happy for the update!

Link for the lazy: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9LqjoBXYAE-P6k.png I think it's much better than the previous one, but I've always replaced the icon for that with this anyway: https://dribbble.com/shots/1836652-Final-Round-Sublime-Icon I think I'll leave the new one in place for a while and see whether it grows on me.

Much better, more unique and somewhat memorable, says a little something about what it does instead of just communicating "orange S" like the last one.

I wonder how that delicate shadow holds up at small sizes and in monochrome.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by captainmuon »

Philipp__ wrote: post #28

If Sublime only had definite release! It's wonderful GUI editor! I stopped using it years ago when I switched to Vim and Emacs, but if it gets released I will buy it for sure, at least to have it on my work machine. I like editing text in it, everything is so smooth and well looking, and it doesn't feel bloated. And I just hate all those Electron based editors, no matter how much incrementally they get better from mo…

Release or not release is just a name. You shouldn't let that be a factor. In my experience it is absolutely stable and as bug free as software can be.

However, I'm not sure how well maintained it is. I fear all the time that the author, jps, has quit, but then every few months he has a development sprint and releases a new version.

I'd rather have it permanently called "beta" but a minor update every month, than one version declared finished, with rare or no updates afterwards.

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by __roland__ »

klum wrote: post #6

The creator of Sublime Text tends to go silent for long periods between stretches of activity, which always makes me wonder about the future of the project. It's a shame, since ST is a well-thought-out editor with great attention to detail, and of course the speed argument (compared to Atom and VS Code), while beaten to death, still holds true. Of course, it's up to the author himself to choose how he communicates, m…

Instead of writing blog posts as a vital sign, maybe it would help to offer some regularly updated pre-defined "bundles" of ST together with package sets for a certain audience (JS/TS/Python developer, etc.). Many packages have a higher update frequency, so even when there is no new ST build it would make sense to also update such bundles on a more regular basis (I know packages are updated automatically -- but this would give a better impression regarding the activity and the size of the ST community for new users).

I imagine the introduction of something like "Sublime Text distros" in package control, which would provide ST users something akin to the different Eclipse flavors (or the various .vimrc settings available online) could be quite useful. While the package control setup is already pretty straightforward, it is still rather confusing for new users that they have to manually install such a 'basic' feature (and Atom, for example, is much more polished in that regard).

Re: Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

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Post by SippinLean »

Philipp__ wrote: post #28

If Sublime only had definite release! It's wonderful GUI editor! I stopped using it years ago when I switched to Vim and Emacs, but if it gets released I will buy it for sure, at least to have it on my work machine. I like editing text in it, everything is so smooth and well looking, and it doesn't feel bloated. And I just hate all those Electron based editors, no matter how much incrementally they get better from mo…

On the contrary, I still miss the speed of ST but the price-vs-feature ratio on VSC is too high for me to ignore anymore. No way the boss will shell out $70 per license if/when ST3 is ever released (now that half our team has dropped it anyway). Guess what you said about not relying on "public opinion" includes your own.
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