This issue is to make our Windows builds (nightly, CI and release builds) easier and better.
And also to satisfy @elextr 's long-time wish to have GTK3 Windows builds :).
My goal is to create Windows builds:
- with GTK3 only
- for x86_64 (aka amd64 aka 64bit) only
- fully automated on a Linux box
I've written a Dockerfile which sets up a cross-compilation environment with mingw64-gcc, wine and a couple other necessary tools. It also bootstraps a minimal MSYS2 environment so packages can be installed with `pacman`.
In the resulting build environment we start a script which does:
- clone Geany repository if necessary (i.e. if it is not bind-mounted into the container)
- cross-compile Geany for Windows 64bit and GTK3
- sign all binaries and installer (if /certificates exist and contains cert.pem and key.pem)
- download Geany-Themes for bundling
- create GTK3 bundle with all dependencies (including grep and sort)
- create the NSIS installer in ${OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}
- test the created NSIS installer and compiled Geany
- test uninstaller and check there is nothing left after uninstalling
This is already working pretty nicely (even digitally signing the binaries!!).
I guess I'll put the Dockerfile and the build script into a new repository.
However there are some tasks left for discussion and to do:
- do you think it is safe to switch to x86_64 builds only? I guess since Windows 7 almost everybody should have a x86_64 installation by default it she didn't anything against it on purpose. But I'm not sure enough and I didn't find proper resources on the net.
- there is a bug on Windows with GTK3 causing the message window to constantly loose some height between starts of Geany (#2591)
- we need to decide which GTK3 theme we use by default:
- the default theme (I think it's Adwaita) looks a bit alien on Windows, see screenshots below
- there is a "win32" theme natively in GTK3 which can be enabled in GTK3's `settings.ini`, it doesn't look quite right either :(.
I would say let's try with the default theme even GUI elements feel a bit huge.
Or we find another good looking theme or someone hacks something. I definitely won't work on this.
Dependant issues and PRs:
- [ ] #2591
- [ ] #2590
- [ ] #2572
Geany GTK3 Default Theme:
, one can code within Geany on one side the code in the editor and see in the same window on the other side, in the sidebar, a preview of the code. Geany gives the possibility to switch with a shortcut to the editor and Geany gives the possibility to switch with a shortcut to the sidebar, but with different shortcuts (https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#focus-keybindings). Better would be to use always one shortcut to toggle editor/sidebar.
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Hello,
Often I have opened a file in read-write mode (default), then I later realize I shouldn't be editing it. So I have to close the file, and then navigate to its directory again and re-open it with the "view" button. This happens to me more often than you'd think!
I would find it very useful if there was a quick way to toggle whether an open file is in read-only or read-write mode. Perhaps there could be a menu item "Reload as read-only" under the "File" menu.
Of course, if the file is already modified (dirty) and read-only mode is then turned on, then the save dialog would have to be displayed, before going into read-only mode.
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