Hello Geany-Devs,

I compiled geany and geany-plugins from source some time ago. I am using geany for .cpp files - together with the vte-plugin, it replaced my old editor there. :D

I also assume that geany-plugins work too but ... I have no idea. :-)

Which brings me to the issue request here:

**- Would it be possible to somewhere display that geany-plugins are available AND were found?**

This can be omitted if geany-plugins is not shown; or it can be shown either way. You could even go fancy and offer a widget to fetch and compile it - but that is outside the scope of my issue request here. :D

I think it could be placed at the "About" widget, somewhere below the authors or so, like "geany-plugins 1.31 installed and found" or a String like this. The About widget shows "Info", "Credits", "License" right now; or if you want to, put it into a tab to the right side, such as calling this "Misc"; or, if you think that this fits better, at the preferences widget. To me it is less important where it is but more that it would be available.

The reason why I would like to is that I'd like to have some kind of notification that things tend to work; or that they do not tend to work. Right now geany is a bit of a black box to me. Anyway, feel free to close this issue request if you think that it is not worthwhile to be had - I tried to make the issue request here simple so that it would not be too much work; I am not sure how much work it would be to determine whether geany-plugins are available or not BUT I think that somewhere in the geany code-base, some checks must already exists for that... at the least on the availability of certain directories I guess. This could suffice for any binary check for gedit-plugins being available perhaps.