Sébastien Wilmet

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6 Following
31 Posts
#gedit maintainer
Projecthttps://gedit-text-editor.org/
Lives inBelgium, Europe
Homepagehttps://wilmet-software.be/
PronounsHe/Him

https://gedit-text-editor.org/b2b.html

B2B Services around #gedit and libgedit.

If you know a community or company in need of custom developer tools, don't hesitate to get in touch 😃 !

B2B Services | gedit text editor

https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2026-05-29-news.html

Some #gedit news for the last couple of months.
The highlight is the section “Code re-use and Business-to-Business opportunities”. B2B around gedit (and libgedit) is still something to develop and to grow.

News, April-May 2026 | Gedit Technology blog

Little known free software facts: the window of the kitchen of offpunk’s maintainer (myself) gives a direct view into the kitchen of the maintainer of Gedit ( @swilmet ).

Yes, we live in the same street, in front of each other ;-)

#offpunk #gedit

@matttbe @ploum When I saw Ploum move in with his family, I didn't show up directly. Instead, I printed - with #gedit, naturally - the HTML source of one of my previous blog post (written in a custom template system used only by me) and written in addition just my street number, then crossed the street and posted it discreetly 🙂

The blog post in question was not chosen randomly, since it was about a subject we chatted around tea some time earlier: https://informatique-libre.be/swilmet/blog/2022-09-20-gafam-magma.html

GAFAM to MAGMA :: Sébastien Wilmet's blog

@matttbe I wasn't aware of Phoronix's post, thanks for the link 😃 Phoronix can be great as a source of news, but one needs to remember not to look at the comments!

https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-12-17-mid-december-news.html

New #gedit blog post, with this time around:
* gedit now refuses to load very large files
* Windows improvements
* Other work in libgedit-gtksourceview
* gspell CI for tarballs

Mid-December News | Gedit Technology blog

We’re launching an end-of-year fundraising campaign with a simple goal: to reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME. And we need your help!

https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2025/12/01/join-friends-of-gnome/

This week we’ll also be sharing and celebrating accomplishments of GNOME over the past year here on the fediverse; be sure to follow #FriendsOfGNOME!

Finally, if you’re already a Friend of GNOME or join this month, please join us in posting with #FriendsOfGNOME as well so that we can thank you. 😊

#GNOME #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GivingTuesday

Join Friends of GNOME

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https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-11-14-mid-november-news.html

New #gedit blog post:
* Website: new design
* Enter TeX: improved search and replace
* Internal refactoring for GeditWindow and its statusbar

Mid-November News | Gedit Technology blog

A short news to announce that you can now donate to the #gedit text editor project!

https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-08-30-donating-to-the-gedit-project.html

Donating to the gedit project | Gedit Technology blog

@ploum It's the first time that I read about the reason of having developed gnome-shell and its different desktop UI paradigm. The Linux community doesn't talk a lot about it!

> In 2006, the German Linux Company SUSE had signed a patent agreement with Microsoft covering patents related to many Windows 95 concepts like the taskbar, the tray, the startmenu. SUSE was the biggest contributor to KDE and the agreement was covering the project. But Red Hat and GNOME refused [...]