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Description

GNOME Text Editor is a simple text editor focused on a pleasing default experience.

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Notice

Mobile friendly since release 43.

Project links: Links with more information: Links to (pages with) screenshots: Screenshots

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: mature

This project has been in development for a long time and is usually well beyond its 1.0 release. It should work fine.

Features

 Every feature of this app can be accessed via touch screen, no mouse or keyboard needed.

 This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

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green: current and packaged,
red: packaged, but not current, ratings and other details may not apply.

Packaging status

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Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.TextEditor.flatpakref

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

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* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Programming languages: C

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/raw/main/data/org.gnome.TextEditor.appdata.xml.in.in