[Github-comments] [geany/geany] [Minor enhancement] Easily show the status of vte-support in the given geany-instance at hand (whether vte was found, whether geany was compiled with vte support etc..) (#1545)

[Robert A. Heiler]

Hello Geany Devs,

Feel free to close this issue if you feel that the time 
investment or the functionality is not worth to be had
for the geany codebase.

Situation: I have just compiled geany successfully (again,
on a new computer actually).

I am not yet sure whether vte was found or not by geany.
I assume that it should work on my system; mate-terminal
starts fine and I can use it, and I think that mate-terminal
also makes use of vte.

Would it be possible to somewhere add some indicator as
to whether geany:

(a) has been compiled with VTE support or not
(b) whether libvte.so was found?

The reason I would like to have these two parts as indicator
whether everything worked fine, as far as geany is concerned.

I do not have a personal preference as to where the information
is stored. Perhaps a small mini-widget could be added that
displays this information, e. g. compile-time information
how geany was compiled. Vim has something similar on the
commandline, e. g. if you do "vim --version", you get a 
lot of information such as a "Compilation:" setting that
tells you with which options vim was compiled.

As for whether libvte.so was found, perhaps a simple widget
in preferences could be used, in the "Terminal" subsection.

For example, if libvte.so (or vte.so, whatever the name was)
was not found, a simple mini-widget could be shown under
the Terminal subsection part, at Preferences, notifying
the user that vte is unavailable in some red colour, or
red colour of the widget's border.

I am not sure if this is actually worth to file an issue
request but as stated above, just feel free to close it
at any moment in time!

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