One of the main goals of project Topaz (gnome 3.0) was to change the current paradigm of how we use ou 1f40 r desktop. Users should care about their documents(objects) and not on the apps with which they manipulate those documents.

I recently found out about Scribes[1]. Scribes is a new editor for the gnome desktop which deserves some attention by its innovative features, simplicity and superb usability
http://scribes.sourceforge.net/index.html

download and compilation is very fast (mostly its python).

Also, check the screencast in the website!

I also filled this as a specification in:
https://features.launchpad.net/distr...pec/new-editor

In case you didn't know it, there already is a lengthy thread about scribes here in the forums. The author of the program frequents that thread, so if you want your feedback to be heard I suggest posting it there.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278610

Now, I'm a big fan of scribes and what Mystilleef tries to do with it. I can see this becoming a really important editor. I don't think it's ready to be default in a distribution such as Ubuntu now, and I'm not sure it ever will be.
My reason for this is mainly that it breaks so muc with the tradition of how software works. The fact that it doesn't have standard menus gives the editor some great advantages (like having alt-letter key combinations free for advanced editing functionality), but it limits the userbase - people who don't know keyboard shortcuts or right-click menus will have great trouble doing even simple things in scribes. And that's ok, I guess - scribes is striving to a simple, yet powerful editor, it does not have to be the best for every use case. People who want the advanced editing functionalities and use text editors often enough to care won't have problems wrapping their heads around how scribes works; people who don't should have a text editor they can understand easily as it works like they expect it to.

Now if your point was that it should be easy to install scribes from the repos, I agree. Someone has to package and submit it for that to happen, though.

If you want this, I think you should try to convince the Gnome devs to include this. I'm fairly certain Ubuntu sticks to the Gnome default editor.

(I would like to see packages for this in Feisty, though. Looks good.)

It looks like a very interesting and promising editor, and if the GNOME developers choose to adopt it, then that would be pretty cool. On the other hand, Gedit is very nice (although a bit slow) and gets the job done without any extra bells and whistles.