Hi guys,
I'm considering moving our hard-coded custom styles (notebook tab button sizing, monospaced search entries and unmatched search entries) to an external resource file (geany.gtkrc in the datadir) -- patch attached.
The main reason to do this is to make it easier to replace this by a CSS file for my GTK3 port (attempt). However, we can see a few other interesting (or not) points:
+ this removes some hard-coded stuff in a few places; + this actually removes an overall of 16 lines, and actually 39 lines of code (those 23 lines being in the resource file); + easier to replace with a CSS file in the GTK3 port (and gives the same advantages than with the RC files); - that's another file to load.
So the question is, are we happy to load another file at startup, besides the Glade XML? I don't think it's a performance problem, moreover the file being probably stored in a near location to the Glade file, but since we always tried to load as less files as possible, do we want to add this file?
Since now we need to load the Glade file anyway, I think it's less of a concern to add additional external files. If we think external files are OK, maybe we'd like to also move our custom images out of images.c to normal files in out datadir. Actually, we currently have 7 inline images (aladin (logo), build, close all, and two save all, and the two used in the completion popup), but also "normal" icons (for the symbol list for example).
So, what do you think?
Regards, Colomban