[issue1325] minimum development facilities for the graphics mode

[Michael Prokop]

Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> added the comment:

* Elmar Stellnberger wrote in grml's BTS on 20141118 / 16:31:

> > I just checked on that. geany (10,8MB) is IMHO too big that I would consider
> > adding it to our ISO. Also meld (13,1MB) and kdiff3 (393MB) are not small enough
> > that I would consider them for inclusion, especially given that vim is capable
> > of providing a diff feature already.

> What about fldiff (1,3MB)? It is a fully featured graphical diff with 
> character
> recognition. mgdiff with 800kB might have been an option as well but it
> has no individual character highlighting which means that we could also
> use vimdiff instead.

Neither fldiff nor mgdiff look useful to me, sorry.

> > The best option would be vim-gtk with 7MB of additional disk space required.
> > What do other folks/devs think about adding vim-gtk to grml-full? yes/maybe/no?

> I would kindly welcome the inclusion of gvim!
> It is far easier to work with gvim than with a console version of vim.
> vim-nox might have been an alternative but it is only 200k smaller.

Ok, we need further feedback from other developers and users though,
adding stuff to the ISO is too easy, while reducing ISO size is
quite hard, so I prefer to make well considered decisions about that.

regards,
-mika-

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assignedto: mika
messages: 4870, 4880, 4894, 4898
nosy: estellnb, mika
priority: package
status: need-eg
title: minimum development facilities for the graphics mode

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