On 2 November 2015 at 03:50, Colomban Wendling lists.ban@herbesfolles.org wrote:
On 31/10/2015 14:40, Abel wrote:
I have a fix for #631 but I was trying to fix this statusbar inconsistency thing as well, but I think I will open a new issue for that and work on them separately.
On 31 October 2015 at 13:16, Thomas Martitz <kugel@rockbox.org mailto:kugel@rockbox.org> wrote:
Are you working on the existing splitwindow plugin or are you creating a new one?I'm working on the existing one. I prefer to solve some quick & essential issues first rather than create a new one
Take a look at https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/724
I'm slowly working on a in-core solution, you can find it at https://github.com/kugel-/geany/tree/splitwindow2?files=1Last commit is on November of former year? that's really slowly :/ Anyway, has it been taken any *official* decision of moving on to a built-in feature instead of a plugin? On other words, Geany dev team, do you have plans of putting splitwindow into core and dropping it as plugin??
Short answer: yes.
Longer answer: I myself have low interest for the feature (read: I don't use it, and probably wouldn't much), but the quality of the current splitwindow plugin definitely leaves a lot to be desired. However, we all know and agreed that it's probably currently impossible to implement a perfect "split window" feature as a plugin, so yes, it probably would have to land in core anyway. I would probably accept a version of this, and could be reviewing it. It however absolutely has to be *non-intrusive* to the non-split case.
Also, IMO a replacement/large improvement should include the following in the end:
- Seamless integration (all features in all splits)
- (keep) support for multiple views of the same document
- multiple (arbitrary) splits
Point 1 is obvly the main goal of everyone who ever tried to improve the situation.
Point 2 would IMO be important, especially to avoid changes in some views when another changes (i.e. if I want to display document A in view V, and I already have it in view W, I don't want view W to stop displaying it). On this point I'm on disagreement with others, who are happy with the idea that documents are dispatched on the various areas, rather than areas are views for documents; so your opinion might vary. I also won't strongly oppose either way, as again I probably wouldn't make much use of the feature myself.
Point 3 would be great, but I guess less of a primary goal.
And IMHO the way to approach it would be:
1) to let everyone know what you are doing and how you intend to do it so the general approach can be commented on,
2) submit a series of small PRs that change the parts of Geany that assume one window/document/split or otherwise cause problems with a proper split/multiple views UI, so they can be added progressively and tested
3) submit the multiple split PR
Agree with Colomban that his 1. and 2. are essential, and I see his 3. as probably more useful than he does.
Cheers Lex
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