On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:46:45 +0200, "Mateusz Mucha" muszek@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've written a review of Geany and published it at http://www.ubuntunews.info/geany-perfect-programming-ide Please drop me an e-mail (or comment the article) if you'd like to add or correct something.
I submitted it to Digg - if we're lucky, you guys will have quite a few new users (I hope that's a good thing :P ).
That's a good thing! Great work, thanks.
You mentioned the guy who designed the user interface. It was an user, the first user, me. I just designed it like I wanted it to be without any knowledge of any human interface guidelines. Ok, in the meantime the interface got improved but the basic design is still the same.
Regarding the browser problem(e.g. to open help): On Windows there is a standard way to open system's default browser and it is used. But is there any on Linux/Unix-based systems with all the different flavours? I know sensible-browser on Debian, maybe it also exists on Ubuntu but probably Fedora, SuSE and/or Mandriva use other systems. And what about different desktop environments. Xfce has exo-open to open URLs, KDE and Gnome probably have some routines, too. But AFAIK there is no common standard way to get a browser opened. So we try to start some commonly used browsers and fall back to the next one if one couldn't be started. These browsers are: browser found in the settings, firefox, mozilla, opera, konqueror, netscape (tried in that order). I admit the order of these browsers may be related to my personal preferences ;-). When starting Geany the first time, it uses default values and the default value for the browser is currently mozilla. I will change this to Firefox. But it is still a predefined value...IMO the best one because Firefox is available on nearly all systems(at least Unix-based, Windows and MacOSX), it is desktop environment independent and it is widely used.
I added the link on the about page on Geany's website ;-).
Regards, Enrico
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