<h2>related to this old issue: <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/788" class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-id="120014212" data-permission-text="Issue title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/788">#788</a><br>
I have stated my rationale there, repeating here:</h2>
<p>dear all, this original post really is about a not so well thought design of geany. I want to tell you a bit specific sitation. I am running Geany on my phone (Ubuntu Touch), you can see here: neither it does on other Linux machines by default</p>
<p>Now, on the phone, the most of the filesystem except ~/, is read-only. Also, is very limitted in space. Installing geany's files into /usr or anywhere outside of ~/ would be considered very expensive. So me, I installed it locally under my home. Should geany be a bit more flexible, that'd be not a problem at all. Even desktop launcher can be added to ~/.local/usr/share/applications/ instead of /usr/share/applications, and so on, HOWEVER, I had to manually ln -s my home based installation back to /usr/share/geany.</p>
<p>Sure, I can do this, just as I can install with a prefix to my home, but that is not convenient. That is not allowing for there to be a way of convenient automated installation to user's home directory. And basically, the ONLY portion which makes it hard, is that path containing the glider.</p>
<p>Just imagine how much more flexible and convenient the Geany would become if you could simply supply the path via environmental var or a command line switch.</p>
<p>Again, I can help myself, but I wanted to point out that in deed, Geany has a small part that limits it without clear reason for it to be that way.</p>
<p>Best Regards,<br>
Kris</p>

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