For most use case having our signals on an "application" object makes sense, as they are meant as global events. We could have object-specific ones, but some are truly useful as is, not only new and open can't be on a Document object as @kugel- pointed out, but many others are really handy to have globally instead of one handler per document: many plugin don't really care to attach to each document, and rather want the event in any one. This avoids doing stuff like foreach (geany_documents as doc) { doc.connect(...); }, which would also be less optimized, and would require to also geany_app.connect("document-new", (app, doc) => { doc.connect(...) }) and same for new.
My point being that some signals are great for global events and make sense to be on the application/window rather than on each specific document (or alike).

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