[Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-11-12 04:05 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> [...]
>
>> I think this would need a more client-server-architecture as maybe
>> described in point 3. However, I'd like to have multiple Geany instances
>> working at same session. But I'm a little afraid of the changes needs to
>> be done for it.
>>
>
> Thats an interesting potential solution we need to examine.
>

This is completely taken care of/easy[1] with some of the newer APIs 
provided by GTK3 (might even be available in later GTK2 versions). It 
uses DBus for interprocess communications behind the scenes.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush

[1]: Easy to use that is, not easy to bolt on to existing Geany code 
without upsetting it :)