X-Apps
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From the Mint team -- a new fork of some essential Gnome apps that will be generic, environment-agnostic.
Xed
Xplayer
Xreader
Pix
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sarah_cinnamon_whatsnew.php
»X-Apps
A new project called "X-Apps" was started and its goal is to produce generic applications for traditional GTK desktop environments.
The idea behind this project is to replace applications which no longer integrate properly outside of a particular environment (this is the case for a growing number of GNOME applications) and to give our desktop environments the same set of core applications, so that each change, each new feature being developed, each little improvement made in one of them will benefit not just one environment, but all of them.«
I don't get why they're using these names. It's confusing; usually, naming something with an "X" indicates a connection to the X Window System. There are exceptions, of course, but calling a suite "X-Apps" just very strongly suggests that it's something designed for X, which just isn't the case here.
Oh, and I don't see the point either. GNOME has these things specifically so that they will integrate better into the overall GNOME experience. If you want something more "generic" than gedit, Mousepad will do just fine (though to be honest, I don't see how using gedit in Cinnamon or Xfce would be a problem).
I would understand more if it was specifically a fork of gedit because of dissatisfaction with any of the editors out there, but gedit being almost what you want. But that doesn't seem to be the case here. I mean, what's the Totem fork for? What's the Evince fork for? Heck, what are any of these forks for? What are they actually trying to accomplish that gedit, Totem, and Evince are not accomplishing? MATE already has forks of the old versions of these programs, so getting a GNOME 2 experience certainly can't be it, can it?
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