Sure open() can open any file, but it still has to be told the path to open, the filename argument, it does not search the filesystem for the file. The base of the directory tree containing geany.glade and all the other data files Geany needs is set at compile time in a normal Geany build, which is the normal process for Linux application builds, the base directory is located differently in a Windows or an OSX build and they have different subdirectories, see here.

As @b4n noted above, there is support for building a relocatable Linux version, but its not used regularly as far as we know since none of the normal Linux distributions provide a relocatable version, they provide a version that is located in their system directory tree.

And as I noted, it may be reasonable to support specifying a prefix as a runtime option, but Geany is a volunteer project and somebody has to do it, and #1702 is marked as an enhancement for that reason.

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