[Github-comments] [geany] Errors when opening project file not correctly reported (#778)

[J-Dunn]

```
I believe Geany is operating correctly in re-writing the session with the current open files on each close.
```

Agreed, I was not suggesting otherwise, simply noting that it was not possible to re-examine what happened since the error removes itself.

I went to the "Messages Window" expecting to find more detail on one of the tabs. It appears that the relative information is on the help menu. It may be worth considering if that is the most appropriate place. 

Generally I would expect abstract functional information in the help menu not run time session related messages. I would suggest this debug window would be more logically organised as an additional tab on the Messages Window.

If you need to point the user to help | debug it may be because the user is unlikely to look there unless you tell him to. This suggests a design layout error.

```
But it's kind of not an (hard) error since those files are just "session files", 
```

Well either Geany stores and opens the files the user was working on or it does not. If it is an intended functionality and it does not work it's an error. If something external to Geany causes it to fail the user needs to know that normal functionality did not happen.

I agree with the design choice to limit the situations in which modal dialogues pop up. They can be very annoying and should be reserved for more serious errors. However, one thing I have noted elsewhere is that I find the quiet status bar messages far too discrete.  I had a separate situation where something ( file save ? ) was failing and I had to repeat it about four times before I noticed something had had changed on the periphery of the display. 

I will open a separate issue about that.


---
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/778#issuecomment-160254815
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.geany.org/pipermail/github-comments/attachments/20151127/7c26302a/attachment.html>