[Geany-devel] removing filetype templates

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:24:02 +0100, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
wrote:

>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. 

No, IMO these are complete separate tasks and should not be mixed.
Moving the config dir to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unrelated and will happen
as an opaque action. We won't move only parts or anything.

Regards,
Enrico

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