[Geany-devel] removing filetype templates

[Frank Lanitz]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:18:57 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:29:27 +0000, Nick Treleaven
> <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:50:41 +0000
> >eht16 at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> >
> >> Revision: 3212
> >>           http://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/geany/?rev=3212&view=rev
> >> Author:   eht16
> >> Date:     2008-11-11 19:50:40 +0000 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
> >> 
> >> Log Message:
> >> -----------
> >> Add a file template for LaTeX (patch by Herbert Voss, thanks).
> >
> >> TEMPLATES_CREATE_FILE(fname, templates_filetype_html); break; case
> >> GEANY_FILETYPES_RUBY:	TEMPLATES_CREATE_FILE(fname,
> >> templates_filetype_ruby); break; case GEANY_FILETYPES_PYTHON:
> >> TEMPLATES_CREATE_FILE(fname, templates_filetype_python); break;
> >> +			case GEANY_FILETYPES_LATEX:
> >> TEMPLATES_CREATE_FILE(fname, templates_filetype_latex); break;
> >> default: break; }
> >>  		TEMPLATES_READ_FILE(fname, &ft_templates[ft_id]);
> >
> >BTW, I think we could remove filetype templates and just use custom
> >file templates instead - they might confuse users into thinking only
> >one template per filetype was supported.
> >
> >When doing this, I think we shouldn't hard code the creation of
> >default template files, but install them as data files. The advantage
> >would be the user can delete them after installation if they want.
> 
> Yep, sounds good.
> The only not so nice effect we will get is that the config dir of
> existing users will be cluttered a bit with old template files which
> are not used anymore.I'm not sure whether we should just document this
> or taking any action to clean it up. But generally I don't like apps
> which automatically delete anything in user's configuration
> directories.

I think this could be combined with the idea moving the config files
to .config architecture. by keeping the old .geany as some kind of
backup dir. 

Cheers 
Frank
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http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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