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Q: how to switch to new Git repo?
by Eugene Arshinov 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hi guys! It's me again, after a long time. Please help me organize my Geany repository. The last time I worked on Geany it was in SVN repository, and I was using it through git-svn. Now there are two Git repositories: the main one [1] and the one containing my sm-branch [2]. I assume I should make the fork of the former and put my sm branch there, but how do I transfer my sm branch, preserving merge commits (master -> sm)? [1]: https://github.com/geany/geany [2]: https://github.com/techee/sm-branch/ -- Best regards, Eugene.

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Adding some Glade widgets
by Matthew Brush 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Hi, I was wondering about making a Glade XML catalog for Geany widgets, existing and some new ones, so they can be used through the Glade GUI. Some possible widgets for the catalog include: Existing: ========= - GeanyWrapLabel - Nice little existing GtkWidget that fixes broken GtkLabel text wrapping in GTK+ 2. Should work fine in a glade catalog and should even fix wrapping of labels in Glade. - GeanyEntryAction - Existing helper class for adding an entry (find/goto I guess) to a toolbar, should work fine in a glade catalog. - GeanyMenuButtonAction - Existing helper class for adding a button to a toolbar. I didn't look too much where it's used, but should be fine in a Glade catalog. - GeanyObject, others? Done with functions in UI Utils file (ie. could be little widgets) ================================================================== - GeanyPathBox - A GtkEntry and GtkButton in a GtkHBox (so it would be a GtkBox subclass). The entry has a clear icon to the right (and so could be a subclass of the next widget I'll mention). The button has a GtkImage packed inside and could be improved by more tightly packing the image in the button (like is done in notebook.c for the tab close button). An alternative to this is to switch to GtkFileChooserButton, but I'm not personally convinced that it's any better than the existing path boxes like there is now. - GeanyClearableEntry - A GtkEntry subclass which has a clear icon packed into the secondary icon position. When the icon is clicked the text of the entry is set to "" (cleared). This is used all over. - Probably other stuff? Entirely New (future/long term) =============================== - GeanyScintilla - Subclass of ScintillaObject, all functions in sciwrappers moved to methods of this class. In future, could be combined with GeanyEditor since both are somewhat redundant. There's probably other ones too. But anyway I thought I'd ask about it since it'd be useful for working in Glade to have "first class widgets" to add from the catalog and would make Geany's code a little more clean and modular (if not bigger/slightly slower). Thoughts, comments, else? Cheers, Matthew Brush

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Next version number
by Matthew Brush 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Hi, This is regarding the change from v0.21->1.22 for the next release. I totally agree that by now Geany has been long stable enough to have been in a 1.x series (or more) of releases, but I'm just wondering now about the jump. There's been some fairly majour and intensive changes since last release: - Complete re-write and cleanup of the highlighting/scintilla mappings code. - Switch to entirely GRegex/PCRE from old GNU regex. - Switch from Glade 2 generated code to Glade 3 / GtkBuilder XML.[1] - Translation changes for this - Massive changes to filetypes for color scheme support. - Default themes not compatible with existing filedefs.[2] - Lots of other stuff. I think considering the massive amount of user-facing changes that have occurred in the last cycle that it might be misguided to jump to a 1.X version in declaration of "being stable". I'd argue in fact that while there's been some really awesome improvements, we are far less "stable" than in previous versions. Since we haven't released with the new versioning scheme, IMHO, it would make sense to jump to something like 0.98/0.99 in preparation for the next cycle, rather than a whole 1.00. Thoughts, opinions, scoldings? Cheers, Matthew Brush [1] Don't under-estimate this, while 100% necessary, it's not just for the code changes which weren't really that big, but for the build-system changes, the added file dependency for the UI XML, the exporting of a bunch of new symbols (-Wl,--export-dynamic and G_MODULE_EXPORT) and interactions with plugins (there was recently a bug due to this in GeanyLatex).. [2] This is going to be a frequent bug/issue: "My colours don't work". The answer is that they have a customized filetypes.* files overriding the newly mapped named styles and messing with highlighting. It's an awesome upgrade in functionality but I *guarantee* it will be a source of numerous bug reports.

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GtkFileChooser "recent" annoyance
by Matthew Brush 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

Hi, Is anyone opposed to me committing the trivial patch attached here. The comment I think describes it well enough, and if you're using recent GTK+ 2.24.x you probably already know about it. I didn't want to commit without asking since maybe some people will find this new "feature"[1][2] useful, I personally find it extremely annoying, but I wouldn't want to fix it at the expense of annoying others. Cheers, Matthew Brush [1] https://live.gnome.org/DocumentCentricGnome/Help%20the%20user%20choose%20a%… [2] I think we can safely assume Geany users (ie. programmers) already know how to manage files :)

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Session Management Interim Solution Proposal
by Lex Trotman 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi All, Seasons greetings to all. New year new idea. Since Gnome seems to have irretrievably broken X session management it does not seem likely that proper session management will be solved in the near term. Sadly this seems to waste all the good work that the guys put into the SM branch, thanks for the effort. I am going to suggest an interim change to Geany that will at least mean that it will re-start with the same main settings and preferences. Actually two options. 1. Although I have argued against it in the past, having all settings save on change would at least ensure that a Geany killed by logout or shutdown will still restart with preference/session changes intact, or 2. add a user action to save preferences/session. My problems with 1. are the performance impact of writing the session file list every time a file is opened, closed or tabs re-ordered and the risk of corruption that that increase in file activity causes (especially with multiple instances). My problem with 2. is I will forget to do it. Perhaps a mixed solution of preferences always saved, but session only when the user asks is the way to go. Any thoughts and suggestions? Cheers Lex

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Issue with geanyLaTeX after GtkBuilder: Help needed to debug
by Frank Lanitz 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Hi folks, Since about GtkBuilder come in into Geany core we are experiencing some issue with GeanyLaTeX in terms of in some cases the toolbar is not able tobe loaded and Geany is ending up inside a segfault. Most likely its repreducable by activating the toolbar and restarting Geany having a tex-file loaded. The issue seems to be located in near of line https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/blob/master/geanylatex/src/geanylate… unfortunately I don't have any bloody idea, what might is going wrong. Anyone else could jump in here? Cheers, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/

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Weird Segfault Crash
by Matthew Brush 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Hi, I'm having some random crashes, possibly due to bad tag files? Patch attached "fixes" the segfault, but I'm pretty sure it's not the "correct" fix. P.S. I also noticed in this block of code:: encodings_convert_to_utf8_from_charset(utf8_name, (gsize) -1, ...) Is it OK the cast a negative number to `gsize` and will it have the desired effect for that function? The `-1` here is supposed to tell the encoding function that the string is nul terminated and is to be measured with `strlen()` IIUC. Cheers, Matthew Brush

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Assorted file extensions
by Ross McKay 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

G'day, While I'm messing around with Geany, here's a few extensions on the standard filetype_extensions.conf that I reckon should be part of the base: [Extensions] HTML=*.htm;*.html;*.shtml;*.hta;*.htd;*.htt;*.cfm;*.asp;*.asa; Javascript=*.js;*.htc; SQL=*.sql;*.SQL;*.ddl;*.DDL;*.prc;*.PRC; .asp = Classic ASP (VBScript / JScript server-side scripts) .asa = as above .htc = Microsoft Internet Explorer component script (JScript) .ddl = SQL data definition language, basically create statements .prc = SQL stored procedures (commonly MS but also others sometimes) -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "A just machine to make big decisions Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision We'll be clean when their work is done We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young What a beautiful world this'll be What a glorious time to be free..." - Donald Fagan

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Replacing the control socket with dbus
by Arthur Skowronek 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hi, http://memegenerator.net/cache/instances/400x/12/12436/12734680.jpg with this little stupid meme I would like to start a discussion about replacing the current control socket living "somewhere" in the "~/.config/geany" directory space with implementing GApplication from recent GLib versions. As it looks to me the current tasks of the control socket are: * ensure some basic uniqueness (open files via the geany command in an already running instance) * provide ability to perform basic operations on a running Geany instance like - opening files - go to a certain position in the file. - obtain a list of documents opened in the current instance These tasks can be accomplished with GApplication too. On top of that we would get rid of: * cluttering the filesystem with sockets * possibility of a dead lock in the doclist command * general freeze while a client is connected to the socket. The downside would be that the required version for GLib would be pushed to 2.28 and this version is not available on the stable branch for all distributions. My suggestion therefore is to put this at least on the Todo list and replace it with the planned feature to use dbus. On top of that I would offer my free time to work on this topic as soon as all requirements are met, if appreciated. Greetings and a happy new year, Arthur S.

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Is the field "type" of struct GeanyProject used somewhere
by Johann SAUNIER 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hi, I'm trying to hack geanyprj plugin to add the current project's name in the main window's title bar, the same way gproject does. What I plan to do is using the field "name" of the GeanyProject structure. This struct contains a field named "type" that means "Identifier whether it is a pure Geany project or modified/extended by a plugin. " but I can't find out where it is used. Any idea ? Thanks, Johann

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