Hey,
I just thought about how external plugins could/should install their documentation files[1], if any.
The usual location would be $prefix/share/doc/pluginname but I think with multiple plugins installed, this could clutter up the doc directory a little bit. At least when the plugins are installed in a global default prefix like /usr. Then users end up with something like
/usr/share/doc/externdbg /usr/share/doc/geanylatex /usr/share/doc/geanyvc /usr/share/doc/spellcheck
Especially for plugins which are not prefixed by 'geany' (which is by no means necessary IMO) this could be ugly, especially when plugins are packaged by distributions. (currently the geanylua plugin installs documentation in $prefix/share/doc/geany/ which is even worse, plugins should not install anything into Geany's doc or datadir)
So, my suggestion would be to make a recommendation for plugin authors to install documentation files into $prefix/share/doc/geany-plugins/${pluginname}
example: /usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/externdbg /usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanylatex /usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanyvc /usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/spellcheck
This way, the global doc dir won't be cluttered so much and plugin documentation files will be installed together in a common directory.
What do you think?
[1] Documentation files mean not only some kind of user documentation but also the usual README, AUTHORS, COPYING, ... files.
Regards, Enrico