[Geany-devel] Some obsolete(?) bug reports

[Eugene Arshinov]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:51:54 +0100
Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:

> Le 19/02/2012 01:06, Lex Trotman a écrit :
> > [...]
> >>>
> >>> I just taught the file mangler to run geany -c so it never
> >>> interrupts what a normal Geany is doing :)
> >>
> >> I don't think that's something everybody should need to do.
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, true.
> > 
> > [...]
> >> I personally do think what we do is definitely the Wrong Thing.
> >> Honestly, I always have found this behavior very counter-intuitive
> >> and not helpful.  I mean, if I tell Geany to restore my session, I
> >> expect it to be restored whenever I start Geany, not only in some
> >> cases.
> >>
> > 
> > Looking at it like that, then the current behaviour is wrong.
> > 
> > I also checked a few other apps and all restore past sessions and
> > add the new file to it, so I would say this is the behaviour a user
> > would expect.
> > 
> > 
> >> OK, for me it's not a real problem since I always have one or more
> >> Geany instance open, but remembering the early times I did
> >> unexpectedly lost some session data because of this behavior.
> >>
> >> To summarize, I think that the current behavior will most likely
> >> NOT be the expected one and will disturb most users.  See, even us
> >> do workaround that in some ways, either using -c or having an
> >> instance always open.
> > 
> > Or both, so I *never* saw it as a problem :)
> > 
> >>
> >> So I'd say "aye" to Dimitar since he gently volunteered :)
> >> Moreover if it is a preference I don't see any loss; but I'd
> >> better see this preference turned on by default for new
> >> configurations if the restore session one is on.
> >>
> > 
> > Colomban has been so persuasive
> 
> Hehe :D
> 
> > that I don't even think it needs
> > another option, the suggested behaviour is non-destructive, so why
> > not just turn restoring sessions on or off.
> 
> Agreed, another pref isn't needed, either always restore or never
> restore should be enough; IMO too.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to everybody?
> 

I agree.