[Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

[Harold Aling]

On 13 November 2013 10:53, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 13-11-13 12:04 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote:
>>
>> Am 13.11.2013 02:15, schrieb 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.
>>
>>
>> How's the DBus situation on Windows?
>>
>
> I've never used in on Windows myself but based on a 2 second Google search
> it seems to be available/ported/working. It sounds plausible since I think
> Qt also uses it, and they seem to be big on Windows support.

How many "Geany on Windows" users are there? is it 90% POSIX/10%
Windows? Or more? Less?

I'm a big fan of the "90% rule". If 90% of the users don't need/want
it, don't implement or support it. Same goes for library versions: if
90%+ has GTK3, it's safe to require that.

2ct.

-H-