Jiří Techet <techet@...> writes:

Hi everyone, in the last couple of weeks I've been playing with Geany on OS X and

got it to the state where Geany is fully functional, integrated with OS X and have a self-contained app bundle so Geany can be distributed without any additional external dependencies. Apart from the few limitations listed below I'm not aware of any problems.

This is where I would find it very useful if the brave souls among you

who are not scared of running unknown binaries from the Internet and who use OS X could try out the binaries I uploaded here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2554438/Geany-1.25git.dmg

Any feedback is welcome.

Features:

• Integrated menubar
• Opening files from Finder using Open With
• Opening files using drag and drop to Geany icon
• Double-click on project file in Finder opens the project
• Retina font rendering
• All basic plugins (without extra dependencies) and themes included

by default

Limitations:

• The VTE terminal is missing (VTE doesn't work, seems to be a problem

in VTE itself)

• Scrolling the editor window is somewhat slow using the mouse

Requirements:

• OS X 10.7 or higher (I have tested just with Yosemite)
• x64 processor

I will try to get all the necessary patches into Geany mainline (some

are already being reviewed, some - the integration ones - I haven't published yet) and will make a github project with the app bundle creation instructions + all the necessary config files, themes, icons, etc. I also plan to provide OS X binaries for all the future Geany releases.

Cheers,

Jiri

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I have not been able to replicate the scrolling issue you have, however the build works fine and it saved me hours of compiling it myself from scratch (had an ancient 0.20 build i compiled myself years ago that i have used up until now) and i thank you alot for that

I am very interested in seeing a github project of this in the future. As it will make it possible for us geany users to keep using geany without any issues on OS X :)

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Jiří Techet techet@gmail.com wrote:

Hi everyone,

in the last couple of weeks I've been playing with Geany on OS X and got it to the state where Geany is fully functional, integrated with OS X and have a self-contained app bundle so Geany can be distributed without any additional external dependencies. Apart from the few limitations listed below I'm not aware of any problems.

This is where I would find it very useful if the brave souls among you who are not scared of running unknown binaries from the Internet and who use OS X could try out the binaries I uploaded here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2554438/Geany-1.25git.dmg

I have re-uploaded the binary under

http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.25nightly_osx.dmg

and will eventually remove it from the dropbox location. In case there's some significant OS X related change during the 1.25 release cycle, I will update the binary at this location.

Cheers,

Jiri

On 2015-04-04 9:16 AM, Jiří Techet wrote:

[snip]

• preferences are back in Edit to match the linux version

Just out of curiosity, why do this when Preferences are always in the App menu on OSX?

• the bundle is signed so there's no warning when running it for the first

time

When I just installed it, it still did a warning message, I think it was something about the program coming from the Internet or some such, FYI.

Cheers, Matthew Brush

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:

On 2015-04-04 9:16 AM, Jiří Techet wrote:

...

[snip]

• preferences are back in Edit to match the linux version

Just out of curiosity, why do this when Preferences are always in the App menu on OSX?

See

https://github.com/techee/geany/commit/a122953c7b202b6feb59d6ec4f102edf46a16...

• the bundle is signed so there's no warning when running it for the first

...

time

When I just installed it, it still did a warning message, I think it was something about the program coming from the Internet or some such, FYI.

This one is OK, you always get it. However, if the application isn't signed, you get this:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/27/app-cant-be-opened-because-it-is-from-an-unid...

and it won't start unless you right-click the bundle and select Open (just for the very first time).

Jiri

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:

On 2015-04-05 6:28 PM, Jiří Techet wrote:

...

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote: [snip]

...

When I just installed it, it still did a warning message, I think it was something about the program coming from the Internet or some such, FYI.

This one is OK, you always get it. However, if the application isn't signed, you get this:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/27/app-cant-be-opened-because- it-is-from-an-unidentified-developer/

and it won't start unless you right-click the bundle and select Open (just for the very first time).

Ah, ok, I got this one for Thunderbird the other day, it's so stupid.

You can disable it in preferences (Security & Privacy) if you don't like it. I actually like the signing (at least in principle) so if some software turns out to be a trojan, Apple can ban it and disable its execution (the revoked signing key database is updated automatically by the system). Of course it also means that Apple has a complete control over your software and you have to pay for the possibility to distribute your software which is definitely not as nice...

Did you use your own developer key to sign it? I wonder if we could get one

for Geany so you don't have to pay for and use your own (if you care)?

Yes, I did, but I have to be registered anyway so don't worry. I don't think it's worth for Geany to spend $100 a year just to sign the OS X binaries. I signed it just because I already had the certificate and it saves users from performing some extra steps after installation.

Cheers,

Jiri