On 2022-09-26 10:29, Little Girl wrote:
Hey there,
Ray Andrews wrote:
BTW, just to rant a little, not that there's any hope of change, Windows has us all so corrupted that we don't even know how much we've been ruined, still I'll say it: Geany, like everyone else in the GUI computer universe, suffers from the idea that the more hidden things are, the better -- the more buried they are in sub-sub-sub menus the happier everyone will be.
Perhaps, but the way I see it, each program is the brainchild of its developer or developers and is structured in one of these ways or a mixture of any or all of them:
- however it happens to come together as features are added
- however the developer(s) think it ought to be
- however the developer(s) believe others would want it to be
- however others have expressed wishes for it to be
... or because certain ways of expecting a GUI to work have become almost hardwired into us. That's what I'm saying. The tiny dialogue box has become an unquestioned thing as has the idea that you make a decision based on an accumulation of simple choices (the sub-menu thing) rather than one 'big' up front choice.
You're in luck. Geany has such a text file. On my system (Kubuntu 22.04 LTS), it's the hidden ~/.config/geany/geany.conf file. You may find it elsewhere depending on the operating system it's installed on. I've only ever run Geany on Ubuntu MATE and Kubuntu and that file has always been in the same place.
Marvelous!