So I’ve been trying to find a text editor that’s blazing fast with as little features as possible that doesn’t look like it was designed in the '90s.
I would like something that when I click on my files it opens almost instantly and only displays text in a notepad without any buttons tools, or just the bare minimum (like create a new file or something like that). I want this to read .txt files and that’s it, if I’m working on a writing I’d use LibreOffice and if I’m writing some code I’d use Atom.
Hmm, so if it only displays text, no other UI elements, then what about it could even look like it was designed in the 90s? Or do you just want an editor that can display variable-width font?
This is the screenshot that Alternative To provides for Leafpad I’m unsure on whether this is the current looks of it or whatever, but this looks pretty minimal, I can live with those five buttons but the whole thing looks straight out of W98 IMO.
Still if it could have EVEN LESS would be better.
Right, yeah. I guess, you’d usually have a scrollbar visible and whatever other UI components are still on there.
And whether that looks like Windows 98 or not, will depend on your GTK theme.
That screenshot was probably taken on Xfce, MATE or many years ago.
If you have a more modern GTK theme, e.g. if your desktop environment is GNOME, Cinnamon (Linux Mint), Pantheon (ElementaryOS) etc. or you’ve just set it to something more modern, then Leafpad should look more modern, too.
Fair, I know it probably wasn’t exactly like that, I just wanted to point out how it can look pretty old while also being minimalist.