I don't agree about the point about randomness. The sorting affects the order of tabs after closing and re-openning Geany, so at least the sidebar tabs order is more random with sorting. I don't think the Plugin Preferences tabs that become dependent on activation order is an issue as that dialog is used only once a while. Additionally, dialog tabs are not sorted elsewhere neither.

For the sake of simplicity, I am not in favour of adding other user prefs for tab orders that are different between the sidebar and the Plugin Preferences neither. Additionally, tabs order cannot be controlled by individual plugins, well other than they try to compete for the name with top alphabetical spot!

FYI, previously I tried to change the Tree Browser plugin name to make it alphabetically more competitive!, but I was told here that I can edit the geany.conf file to set the order of plugins in the sidebar, and it worked. In Geany-1.38, which is default in Ubuntu-22.04, it works too, but not in the master branch. The plugin entries are now in session.conf file and I suppose that is where the regression has occurred. I suppose those changes were to solve some other problem but I will not try to track them down further.

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