Hey folks,
I recently compiled geany and geany-plugins but in different prefixes.
When starting geany, I don't know whether the plugins are found; and I don't see vte on the bottom anymore. I think old releases had them so perhaps there is a problem with my vte setup.
But the issue here is more about the UI part. I haven't found a trivial way to designate them. Hard to find something. :D
So two suggestions:
(1) Would it be possible to add an additional line at "Preferences -> Terminal" to indicate whether it is currently shown or not? Or perhaps even a toggle there, "show terminal" or "not show terminal". Like, if I click on it, it could simply show up? That would be SUPER convenient because I would not have to find anything else where the vte terminal is shown. And if it does not work, a slight popup-widget could indicate the warning. gtk3 makes this quite convenient via popup-widgets, I used them a lot in ruby-gtk3, it's really convenient and helpful. And you could tell the user why it does not work IF he then clicks on it, which would be nice.
Right now I just don't see any terminal anywhere, so perhaps there is a problem but I have no idea where the problem is. This is why I think (1) could be useful in these cases.
(2) Perhaps also add a new entry under "View" and call it "show terminal" or something. That could also be helpful and do as (1) describes.
(3) Last but not least, geany on startup shows this:
"This is Geany 1.37.1."
This is fine; that way I know the version.
Could this string be expanded to ALSO show geany-plugins?
Example if plugins are installed AND could be found:
"This is Geany 1.37.1, and geany-plugins 1.35."
And if NOT installed or NOT found, then this:
"This is Geany 1.37.1. No geany-plugins were found."
The last part is not as important as the first one, because I mostly just want an additional info as to whether geany-plugins could be found or not. Right now I do not seem to get a simple message that they can be found. Geany is a bit of a black box to me in this regard. (I think I'll just recompile both and use the same /usr/ prefix then.)
1) there is a switch to vte keybinding which defaults to F4, if you don't have VTE it won't work, `Help->Keyboard Shortcuts` is your friend.
The VTE is a tab in the message window, and toggle message window is a keybinding (though with no default) you can set it to anything.
If its not present in your home built Geany its likely that its because you didn't have the _development_ package for VTE installed, or its the wrong version, if only people would **read** the output of `configure` instead of automatically charging on to `make` :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
2) why do you want to hide it? its a message window tab, if you don't want it, don't show the message window or show another tab
3) geany plugins is just a collection, the plugins present to geany individually so there is no geany-plugins version to show. And geany-plugins is not the only place plugins come from, so they have to be treated individually. Plugins are never loaded unless enabled in the plugin manager dialog so plugins that conflict or bad plugins that cause crashes can be excluded by not enabling them. Just look in the plugin manager `Tools->Plugin Manager` to see which plugins are available since it also tests version compatibility between Geany and plugins and lets plugins check their dependencies and does not show or greys out plugins that can't be used.
If the geany and geany-plugins are in a different (but same) prefix and the plugins are not shown in the plugin manager did you build them setting --with-geany-libdir to the right place? The libdir default is fixed, not ${prefix}/lib as one might hope.
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