[Geany-devel] Proposal: Project settings split

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Tue Nov 1 01:21:25 UTC 2011


On 1 November 2011 11:49, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 11-10-31 04:50 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> One area of Geany has been annoying me for some time.
>>
>> At the moment project settings mix session related settings and truely
>> project settings.  The session settings are really user specific
>> whilst the project settings are project related.  This means that if
>> the project file is in VCS it keeps updating as the session settings
>> change.  You can turn session settings off, but then you lose that
>> functionality.
>>
>> The proposal is to separate these, with the session settings stored in
>> the user config directory under a projects subdir and the project
>> settings stored wherever the user wants.  The options ~/projects or in
>> the tree would be available as they are now.
>>
>> To prevent the config dir getting too cluttered the session files can
>> be kept only as long as the project remains in the recent projects
>> list. (maybe needs a separate length setting, currently uses
>> file_prefs.mru_length)
>>
>> I will have some time next week, so this thread is to get ideas or
>> objections sorted before then.
>>
>
> I like the idea of having workspaces/profiles, so that on startup (with
> option to not ask again) and then later through a menu, you can choose one
> of your profiles to load the settings like, indentation, long-line marker,
> colour scheme, etc.

Well, you can do it at startup with the -c option, changing it later
isn't possible.  I'm not offering to do this ATM.

>
> IMO, projects should only store things like build commands, paths to project
> files, project meta-data, etc.

Yes, I included indentation and long line since those settings are
likely (not guaranteed) to be consistent across a project but may be
different between projects.

>
> Sessions should be user-transparent things like window geometry, number of
> instances opened, last project/files, etc. and maybe should be
> workspace/profile-specific.

Yes, except for instances.  Geany itself shouldn't handle those, thats
the session manager's problem.  But of course Gnome session manager is
so broken that several current distros removed the option to use it,
so I'm not sure when SM might work right.

>
> I think this is how most other IDEs I've used handle the situation if I'm
> not mistaken.
>

Beware of Eclipsification creep when getting ideas from other IDEs. :)

Cheers
Lex



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