[Geany-Devel] Miscellaneous Ideas

[Devyn Collier Johnson]

Geany Dev Team:

I have various ideas for Geany (that do not pertain to the 
file-extensions and language support) that I would like to share before 
I write or submit any code.

Also, I found an issue on Geany.org. On 
http://wiki.geany.org/config/scripts/shell , there is a deadlink ( 
https://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/devs/discomfitor/geany_tagger.sh 
).

By the way, thank you again, Matthew Brush, for the link to QML on 
Geany. I then found http://wiki.geany.org/config/start . Why are many of 
these "goodies" not in the mainstream Geany release?

Unless I over-looked it in http://www.geany.org/Contribute/Developers , 
I assume discussion on plugin and color-scheme development are allowed 
in this mailing list, or is there a separate mailing list?

*Ideas*

I noticed that on Geany's GitHub page under ./data/templates, there are 
two license templates ("gpl" and "bsd"). These templates appear in the 
"Edit > Insert Comments" menu. I would like to add some more license 
templates and include them in the menu. Does anyone disagree with this 
idea? I would like to add agpl, lgpl2, lgpl3, gpl3, cc0, and others. To 
make it easier to add menu items, could Geany be re-programmed to 
dynamically create that menu based on the templates included in 
./data/templates and ~/.config/geany/templates , thus allowing users to 
add licenses to their own systems?

In my opinion, ./data/templates/gpl be renamed to ./data/templates/gpl2 
to indicate that this is version 2 of the GNU General Public License. 
Also, should the menu entry explicitly indicate version 2?

To improve the highlighting used by C source-code, could "bool" be added 
to "primary=" in ./data/filetypes.c? "bool" existed since C99 ( 
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ && 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types#stdbool.h ). Also, what about 
"true" and "false" (lowercase) as seen in the <stdbool.h>? Currently, in 
Geany, "bool" looks like a variable (no highlighting) while other 
data-types use highlighting. True, "bool" is not in the "core" 
C-language without libraries, but it seems to me that "bool" should be 
added.

Could more "Independent commands" and "Filetype commands" be added to 
the "Set Build Commands" window opened under "Build > Set Build 
Commands"? On my system, for C and Python, I have all of the entries 
filled, but I need to add more.

I would also like to add additional "Build > Set Build Commands" 
commands to various languages. Are there any objections to me doing so? 
Obviously, I will share such ideas and apply the given feedback before 
submitting a PR.

Soon, I will experiment with compiling Geany using various GCC compiler 
flags and parameters. When I perform such an experiment, would you like 
me to share my results about successful, unsuccessful, and optimized 
compiling options (with included benchmarks)? For instance, I have 
configured and compiled the Linux kernel src for my system, and I have 
seen significant improvements in memory usage, speed, boot-up time, 
etc.. Afterwards, I had become interested in compiling source code 
myself rather than using the pre-compiled *.deb files. I would like to 
see if I can make Geany faster and more light-weight (on RAM). Since I 
will be doing such an experiment, the Geany Dev Team may find the 
results of my experiment to be beneficial to the project.

-- 
Thanks,
Devyn Collier Johnson
DevynCJohnson at Gmail.com

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