Yeah, I know what's going on - basically Geany is launched by a bash script which sets the environment variables needed by GTK and Geany. So for macOS, it's /bin/bash which needs to get the full disk access privileges - see e.g. this answer for more details:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53026/how-to-restore-file-system-access-in-macos-catalina

(just use /bin/bash for Geany).

Anyway, this is clumsy and has potential security implications. I've been working on a binary launcher for Geany to workaround this and in addition to use GTK3 instead of GTK2 because I had some rendering problems on Catalina. Here's the result:

https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.36_osx.dmg

Please give it a try and let me know if you run into any problems. In future Geany releases I'd like to switch to GTK3 and use the binary launcher.

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