GNOME's Gedit App to Be Known as "Text Editor" Among GNU/Linux Distributions | Linux Today

GNOME’s Gedit App to Be Known as “Text Editor” Among GNU/Linux Distributions

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Marius Nestor
Jan 22, 2016

Gedit 3.19.3 has been released and it renames the .desktop file to “Text Editor,” which means that this is how Gedit will be known among GNU/Linux users in the near future, after the release of GNOME 3.20 on March 23, 2016.

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Marius Nestor

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