[Geany-devel] GProject - missing Geany patches

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 28/04/2011 02:06, Lex Trotman a écrit :
>> I understand that if your plugin makes use of some file patterns, it
>> then makes sense to show them in the FIF dialog. But Geany don't use
>> project patterns, and adding such patters to projects seems useless to
>> me since their only usage is to show them in the FIF dialog... but IMHO
>> they don't make much sense since they don't mean anything more than an
>> arbitrary set of patterns stored with the project files (we have pattern
>> history, isn't that sufficient here?).
>>
>> So maybe there are good reason, but couldn't simply your plugin provide
>> the functionality? (though showing them in FIF dialog would probably not
>> be possible ATM)
> 
> IIRC Jiri's plugin makes *heavy* use of file patterns, so showing them
> in FIF is important to giving the user an integrated experience, it
> wouldn't be good if the plugin provided another FIF system.
> 
> As you say a patch is needed to allow that.  Storing them in the
> existing project file was IIIRC a way of getting them to appear in the
> recent list for FIF.

Well, we already have history to the pattern list anyway (AFAIK?)... and
maybe something like fif_set_file_filter() or whatever would be just fine?

Again, I'm not really against adding it, but I feel a bit like it's only
useful when using that gproject plugin and only complicates the UI
otherwise.
But feel free to convince me, I'm open to argumentation ^^

Cheers,
Colomban