Dear All,
Geany having failed at being a small fast lightweight IDE and having become a chubby middle aged application, its time for a re-think, a new direction, a fresh start.
Instead it is proposed that Geany embrace the paradigms of the most successful IDEs (like Emacs or Eclipse) and make coding with Geany great again.
So looking at those things that are common to Emacs and Eclipse I propose:
1) Geany should change its name to start with an E, that is obviously neccessary,
2) Eeany should embrace the bloat, incorporate the whole operating system like Emacs and become an overblown interfering annoyance like Eclipse,
3) clearly using common UI conventions is important (to Eclipse) but using custom paradigms is important (to Emacs) so it is proposed that Eeany alternate between using normal keybindings and using randomly selected sequences of keys. This will make editing an adventure again as you struggle to find the "undo" sequence.
4) Geany is far too fast, so Eeany should incorporate code to perform bitcoin mining between keystrokes, nobody will notice, and the devs will get rich,
5) of course great software is not just Emacs and Eclipse, so Eeany should copy the most important of the paradigms of great software, phoning home with copious user data which can be sold, again making the devs rich, and clearly this should be done in secret without any ability to cancel it, using a spawned process that continues after Eeany exits (and restarts on boot) without any way of preventing it, and
6) having gotten all that data it is of course essential that it be used, so Eeany must incorporate ads, a short video selling insurance before the compile results display, tooltips suggesting a new toothpaste to help clean both your code and your smile.
I'm sure everybody will support this initiative to put Eeany where it belongs in the universe of code development, at the top*.
Regards
* YMMV, press release issued 1 April 2017