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amhairghin

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Registered: 2015-10-14

Posts: 77

GNOME 42 text editor and console

The GNOME 42 release notes page (https://release.gnome.org/42/) says that now gnome-text-editor (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-text-editor) replaces gedit and gnome-console (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-console) replaces terminal. Are there any plans to make these replacements, or are these two new applications going to be included in the binary repositories?

Thanks in advance.

s0lid7

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From: Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2012-10-26

Posts: 59

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

Correct me if I am wrong, but these two are separate applications. Gedit and gnome-terminal will continue to exist.
Also, gnome-console is already in AUR and probably soon it will be added to the official repo.

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amhairghin

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Registered: 2015-10-14

Posts: 77

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

Correct me if I am wrong, but these two are separate applications. Gedit and gnome-terminal will continue to exist.

Yes of course, but if you install the gnome group (https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/gnome/) what you should obtain is gnome-text-editor and gnome-console. Or at least that's what you get from the release note. Obviously this does not mean that you cannot install gedit or gnome-terminal as long as it still exists and is maintained.

hermanr

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Registered: 2011-05-25

Posts: 19

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

That's what you should and probably will obtain in the (near?) future, but not at present. gnome-console and gnome-text-editor are not available in the repositories yet, only in AUR.

lorebett

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Registered: 2021-12-22

Posts: 15

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

The AUR package I used to install, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-text-editor, does not exist anymore... is it being ported to an official package?

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

The AUR package I used to install, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-text-editor, does not exist anymore... is it being ported to an official package?

Instead of bumping a six-month old thread, why not just check for yourself? Use the "Packages" link at the top of the page and search for it.

lorebett

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Registered: 2021-12-22

Posts: 15

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

Maybe I should have been clearer: I did a search myself, and "gnome-text-editor" is no longer in AUR packages (there's only one -git version but for the next version of Gnome).

I honestly prefer to continue an old thread since the main topic is still valid: the original poster was asking about an official binary package for gnome-text-editor, and he was directed to aur but it's not there anymore (it was there a few days ago).

If using an old thread is not the desired way, I can start a new thread.

d.ALT

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Registered: 2019-05-10

Posts: 959

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

Available soon, please be patient: https://archlinux.org/packages/testing/ … xt-editor/

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amhairghin

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Registered: 2015-10-14

Posts: 77

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

There are several packages that have been removed from AUR because they now come with GNOME 43 in the official repositories. For example, the same has happened with libshumate, a package that I was maintaining in AUR. IMHO, I would have kept the packages in AUR until they get into the stable repositories (not everyone has testing repository enabled and I understand that this move may lead to confusion), but that's up to the Arch Linux packagers.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

Maybe I should have been clearer: I did a search myself, and "gnome-text-editor" is no longer in AUR packages (there's only one -git version but for the next version of Gnome).

I meant you could search the official repos yourself instead of asking; if you had you would have found the packages in Testing.

d.Alt has fed you the link.

lorebett

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Registered: 2021-12-22

Posts: 15

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

Maybe I should have been clearer: I did a search myself, and "gnome-text-editor" is no longer in AUR packages (there's only one -git version but for the next version of Gnome).

I meant you could search the official repos yourself instead of asking; if you had you would have found the packages in Testing.

d.Alt has fed you the link.

I had already found the package in testing, but as amhairghin noted, I would have expected an AUR package to be removed only if an official package came to "stable", not to "testing". That sounds natural to me, so finding a package in testing did not help me, that's why I asked.

d.ALT

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Registered: 2019-05-10

Posts: 959

Re: GNOME 42 text editor and console

I would have expected an AUR package to be removed only if an official package came to "stable", not to "testing"

I didn't remember ArchLinux's Packaging guidelines very well, but I think things go like this:
AUR ---> Votes&Pupularity increase ---> <transition_timeframe>  Testing </transition_timeframe> ---> {Core,Extra,Community,Multilib}

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