Hey folks,
I recently compiled geany and geany-plugins but in different prefixes.
When starting geany, I don't know whether the plugins are found; and I don't see vte on the bottom anymore. I think old releases had them so perhaps there is a problem with my vte setup.
But the issue here is more about the UI part. I haven't found a trivial way to designate them. Hard to find something. :D
So two suggestions:
(1) Would it be possible to add an additional line at "Preferences -> Terminal" to indicate whether it is currently shown or not? Or perhaps even a toggle there, "show terminal" or "not show terminal". Like, if I click on it, it could simply show up? That would be SUPER convenient because I would not have to find anything else where the vte terminal is shown. And if it does not work, a slight popup-widget could indicate the warning. gtk3 makes this quite convenient via popup-widgets, I used them a lot in ruby-gtk3, it's really convenient and helpful. And you could tell the user why it does not work IF he then clicks on it, which would be nice.
Right now I just don't see any terminal anywhere, so perhaps there is a problem but I have no idea where the problem is. This is why I think (1) could be useful in these cases.
(2) Perhaps also add a new entry under "View" and call it "show terminal" or something. That could also be helpful and do as (1) describes.
(3) Last but not least, geany on startup shows this:
"This is Geany 1.37.1."
This is fine; that way I know the version.
Could this string be expanded to ALSO show geany-plugins?
Example if plugins are installed AND could be found:
"This is Geany 1.37.1, and geany-plugins 1.35."
And if NOT installed or NOT found, then this:
"This is Geany 1.37.1. No geany-plugins were found."
The last part is not as important as the first one, because I mostly just want an additional info as to whether geany-plugins could be found or not. Right now I do not seem to get a simple message that they can be found. Geany is a bit of a black box to me in this regard. (I think I'll just recompile both and use the same /usr/ prefix then.)