GUI text editors
User interface
We want something efficient and pleasant
When it comes to user interface customisation, at a minimum, we like to be able to change the font size for all aspects of a text editor and its user interface along with the colour scheme. Dark schemes are in fashion, but we like to have a choice.
Geany, Notepadqq and Kate use graphical toolkits that run natively under Linux, and this imposes a limit as to how customisable they can be. However, that’s not to say that those three programs don’t offer a fair bit of control over their appearance.
Because they’re based on the Electron framework and web-orientated technologies such as CSS, there aren’t many limits to what Atom and Visual Studio Code are capable of in terms of layout, and they offer a high level of configurability. The snag is that interfaces that are implemented this way tend to be less responsive, use more system memory and look different from other applications on the system.