[Geany] ANN: New Release: Geany 0.16

[Andy Elvey]

Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:12:41 +1300, Andy Elvey
> <andy.elvey at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
>   
>> Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> we are happy to announce a new release of Geany!
>>>
>>> For a comprehensive list of changes to Geany 0.16, please see
>>> http://www.geany.org/Documentation/ReleaseNotes. A very detailed and
>>> complete list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog, included in
>>> the source packages as well as in the Windows binary files.
>>>
>>> Some of the highlights:
>>>
>>> - We changed the configuration directory path to ~/.config/geany.
>>> Geany will move your old configuration directory automatically on
>>> the first start.
>>> - Tree-like symbol view in the sidebar
>>> - Increase minimum required GTK version to 2.8
>>> - New toolbar which is much more flexible and customisable
>>> - Add auto-closing of braces, brackets and quotes (Guillaume de
>>> Rorthais)
>>> - Support multiple %cursor% positions in Snippets (Thomas Martitz)
>>> - New filetypes Ada, CMake, Matlab, NSIS, Vala and YAML
>>> - Add Split Window 'Split Vertically' command (thanks to Moritz
>>> Barsnick).
>>> - Improved Windows installer
>>> - Updated translations: bg, ca, cs, de, en_GB, fr, hu, it, ja, pt_BR,
>>> sv, ru, tr, vi, zh_CN
>>>
>>>
>>> There are many more cool new things, you should read the Release
>>> Notes.
>>>
>>>
>>> We want to thank all translators who have contributed new or updated
>>> translations to this release as well as all people who contributed to
>>> this release with patches, feedback, bug reports and so on.
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> All downloads can be found as usual on
>>> http://download.geany.org or
>>> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153444
>>>
>>>
>>> Happy coding,
>>> Enrico
>>>   
>>>       
>> Great!  Just downloaded and installed it and it works perfectly (as 
>> usual!). 
>> One thing I was wondering about.... The toolbar is now customised by 
>> editing the ui_toolbar.xml file (rather than using checkboxes in the 
>> "Edit/Preferences" menu, as previously done).  Is there a particular 
>> reason for this?  Just wondering..... :) 
>>     
>
> Sure.
> Now, you can really edit the toolbar items more flexible which means
> you can remove any of the items, not only predefined groups of items.
> And you can reorder the items as you wish.
>
> Maybe I'll write a GUI editor at some point or ideally someone else
> will do. But IMO it's not too hard to edit the XML file.
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>   
Ok - thanks very much for that, Enrico! 
- Andy