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 ).
On 04/24/2007 07:46:45 PM, Mateusz Mucha 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.
Thanks for the review, I think it's a good introduction to Geany and covers the main features.
One question: "Geany can load files from the last session. Unfortunately, it doesn't remember where the cursor was within the file or which parts of code were folded."
Fold points are not remembered, but the cursor position should be restored for each document when restarting Geany - or is there a problem with that?
I didn't notice any other issues ;-)
Regards, Nick
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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On 4/27/07, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
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 this could sound a bit like overkill but, if we're talking about LOCAL documentation, there is the possibility of using the .desktop files database and finding the default handler for .html files. I guess there's a bit of code that does that somewhere, with the shared mime database.
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Regards, Alexandre Moreira.
The story has been picked up by quite a few sites, including newsforge.com, lxer.com, dzone.com. It's been read over 4000 times so far on my site (you probably got many hits directly from those big shots, too). I hope it will help increase the userbase a bit :)
Move over clapton, geany is god!... Seriously it's a great tool.... Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: geany-bounces@uvena.de [mailto:geany-bounces@uvena.de] On Behalf Of Mateusz Mucha Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:44 PM To: Geany general discussion list Subject: Re: [Geany] a review of Geany
The story has been picked up by quite a few sites, including newsforge.com, lxer.com, dzone.com. It's been read over 4000 times so far on my site (you probably got many hits directly from those big shots, too). I hope it will help increase the userbase a bit :)
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:43:56 +0200, "Mateusz Mucha" muszek@gmail.com wrote:
The story has been picked up by quite a few sites, including newsforge.com, lxer.com, dzone.com. It's been read over 4000 times so far on my site (you probably got many hits directly from those big shots, too). I hope it will help increase the userbase a bit :)
Oh, I just had a look at the statistics[1]. Unfortunately, the descriptions on the page are in German but I think you will see it anyway: the average of around 3000 hits per day got blasted by you to a maximum of 34000 hits. Cool, thank you.
[1] http://frank.uvena.de/stats/geany/usage_200704.html
Regards, Enrico
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