[Geany] Some notes on Geanys project management

[John Gabriele]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:02:48 +0100
>  Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>
>  > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:49:23 +0000, Nick Treleaven
>  > <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:02:58 +0000 (UTC)
>  > > Joerg Desch <joerg.desch at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > [...]
>  > > > * enforce the extension of the project file. I've edit the
>  > > > filename first, and forgot the extension. After this, ".geany"
>  > > > got lost.
>  > >
>  > > I agree, we should do this.
>  >
>  > Really?
>  > I don't like this. This reminds me of the ugly ".txt" problem with
>  > Windows Notepad. In Windows XP(maybe also in versions before) you
>  > can't save a file with Windows Notepad without the .txt extension.
>  > This was driving me crazy several times and I really don't want to
>  > add anything similar to Geany.

Right. Secretly adding filename extensions is weird behaviour.
However, you could always just have the dialog prompt the user to add
the extension if they forgot it.

>  > Additionally, there is no need to enforce the extension of Geany
>  > project files to ".geany". Users can and should be able to choose any
>  > extension they like or no extension.
>
>  Maybe. But it makes finding a project file in the open dialog easier if
>  it has the .geany extension.

Allowing any extension for Geany project files is probably just
configurability for configurability's sake. It's not really that much
of a bother for users to use a specific filename extension for a very
specific sort of file, IMO.

---John