[Github-comments] [geany/geany] UI: geany-plugins and vte - make it simpler to show and enable them (#2800)

[rubyFeedback]

Hey folks,

I recently compiled geany and geany-plugins but in different prefixes.

When starting geany, I don't know whether the plugins are found; and
I don't see vte on the bottom anymore. I think old releases had them so
perhaps there is a problem with my vte setup.

But the issue here is more about the UI part. I haven't found a trivial way
to designate them. Hard to find something. :D

So two suggestions:

(1) Would it be possible to add an additional line at "Preferences -> Terminal"
to indicate whether it is currently shown or not? Or perhaps even a toggle
there, "show terminal" or "not show terminal". Like, if I click on it, it could simply
show up? That would be SUPER convenient because I would not have to find
anything else where the vte terminal is shown. And if it does not work, a slight
popup-widget could indicate the warning. gtk3 makes this quite convenient
via popup-widgets, I used them a lot in ruby-gtk3, it's really convenient and
helpful. And you could tell the user why it does not work IF he then clicks on
it, which would be nice.

Right now I just don't see any terminal anywhere, so perhaps there is a problem
but I have no idea where the problem is. This is why I think (1) could be useful
in these cases.

(2) Perhaps also add a new entry under "View" and call it "show terminal" or
something. That could also be helpful and do as (1) describes. 

(3) Last but not least, geany on startup shows this:

"This is Geany 1.37.1."

This is fine; that way I know the version.

Could this string be expanded to ALSO show geany-plugins?

Example if plugins are installed AND could be found:

"This is Geany 1.37.1, and geany-plugins 1.35."

And if NOT installed or NOT found, then this:

"This is Geany 1.37.1. No geany-plugins were found."

The last part is not as important as the first one, because I mostly
just want an additional info as to whether geany-plugins could
be found or not. Right now I do not seem to get a simple message
that they can be found. Geany is a bit of a black box to me in
this regard. (I think I'll just recompile both and use the same /usr/
prefix then.)

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