[Geany-devel] Change to the Documents Notebook

[Lex Trotman]

On 20 January 2011 13:06, Matthew Brush <matthewbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering about the possibility of adding an optional GtkNotebook to
> contain the documents widget.  I have a the geany-devhelp plugin doing this
> as well as the geany-glade plugin (not online yet) in order to keep some
> sanity in the user interface.  I also believe the WebHelper plugin could
> greatly benefit from this as well.  To get an idea of what I'm talking
> about, see this screenshot:
>
> https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-devhelp/blob/master/geany-devhelp.png
>
> You cannot see the Documents notebook in this screenshot, but it's under the
> "Code" tab at the bottom, just above the Message Window.  The Document
> notebook keeps it's tabs along the top while the new "Main" notebook puts
> its tabs on the bottom (it looked ugly with both on top).  Some tab labels
> for this notebook that come to mind are Code(original Documents notebook
> with scintilla editors), Documentation(DevHelp), Design(Glade),
> Preview(WebHelper/WebKit), just to give some ideas.  If you explore the code
> in that project, you can see how I've implemented this, particularly that
> I've added some code to allow the new "Main" notebook come and go as the
> first and last plugin that needs it loads and unloads (since I needed this
> for the glade plugin as well as devhelp plugin).
>
> The whole "Main" notebook being done from a plugin is pretty hackish, so I
> wanted to discuss the possibility of adding this into Geany itself and see
> what everyone though before I start hacking away for no reason (or if
> someone more skilled than myself would be willing to implement it).  I don't
> think it would be terribly difficult to code this, but I'm certainly no
> expert.
>
> I really think this would be great, but I think it should be optional,
> defaulted to be off, maybe under preferences dialog and/or activated by
> certain plugins.  This way those who want all of the integration
> possibilities of such plugins (and the overhead they bring) can have it and
> everyone else don't even need to care about it.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> P.S. Ignore the sidebar tab arrangement in the screenshot, I'm only
> referring to the "Main" notebook where the Documents notebook is (Code,
> Design tabs).
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush (codebrainz)


Hi Matthew,

I like the idea, but it would be better to be able to see both the doc
and the code, what about putting the doc in a separate top level so it
can be positioned suitably?

Cheers
Lex

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