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Gedit
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 16 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 20 complaints
- Find/replace and save as are hidden in the hamburger menu, hurting discoverability2025-09-18
- Gedit hangs completely when opening a giant JSON file2024-07-10
- Moving around text in Gedit is frustrating for quick notes2024-04-28
- Toolbars removed, so users must poke around a floating popup menu to find actions2022-08-16
- Saving after moving an open file creates a second copy at the old path2021-05-24
- Hidden menubar and toolbar; file dialog needs multiple clicks before usable2021-02-02
- No keyboard shortcut for Save As, and useful items hidden in a hamburger menu2020-02-10
- Everything is buried under one hamburger menu, making interaction infuriating2019-10-23
- Everything buried under a single hamburger menu, hard to interact with2019-10-23
- Installs unwanted libraries and packages that can't be cleanly removed2018-07-30
- Hamburger menu sub-menus make it impossible to navigate2017-09-29
- Useful buttons hidden behind an extra click after the toolbar was removed2017-08-08
- Removed menu bar and replaced it with a hamburger menu with few entries2017-08-05
- Find next shortcut is ctrl+f/ctrl+g, which the commenter finds ridiculous2017-07-21
- Takes one to three seconds to save a file2017-07-21
- Find-next shortcut is not Enter like other apps, must be memorized2017-07-21
- Find shortcuts behave strangely and search hangs on large files2017-07-21
- Large 2MB file takes about 25 seconds to become clickable and then hangs when editing2017-04-18
- Common tools like toolbar and save button are hidden, forcing extra clicks to reach them2015-11-04
- GNOME 3 redesign removed buttons and features, leaving users unable to reach functions2015-09-02