[Geany-Devel] Focus lost when last document closed

[Pallai Roland]

2013/5/28 Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com>:
> Long story short, why don't you write a plugin that connects to
> "document-close", and focuses your favorite widget when the last
> document is closed? That'll certainly be easier and faster than
> adding a function to the plugin API and convincing all plugin
> developers to call it, for a reason which may not sound entirely
> convincing to them.
>
> Being a plugin, you can extend it as you see fit - for example
> by keeping history of the focused widgets and going back to the
> last one that still exists, going back on each document close etc.

I considered this but I have to connect to focus-event signals of
plugin's widgets if I want to return to the most recent widget that is
not possible or introduces dependencies between plugins and so leads
to hell. Return to a fixed "favourite" widget is not enough as I wrote
earlier.

> Finally, a plugin that does something sensible, causes no crashes
> and avoids dirty hacks, may well be accepted in geany-plugins.
Unfortunately this plugin could not do any sensible without dirty hacks..


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Don't get me wrong, but I don't understand this resistance: it changes
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