[Geany-Devel] Toggle menu and status bars

[Vasiliy Faronov]

Hi,

Most of the time, when using Geany, I don't need the menu and status
bars; they are just noise. But occasionally I want to check the status
bar (e.g. for the line/column number) or browse the menu. So I want to
toggle their visibility with a keystroke.

I wrote a simple plugin for that: https://github.com/vfaronov/geany-togglebars

The problem is, the menu and status bars are not exposed in
geany.main_widgets, so I have to find them manually, which makes the
plugin brittle as it relies on a specific window layout.

Perhaps there is a better way to do it?

Perhaps the menu and status bars should be exposed in main_widgets?

Or perhaps this feature should be in Geany core? We already have
keybindings for the sidebar and the messages pane. There is some
discussion in issue #633, but I'm not sure what to make of it.


-- 
Vasiliy