[Geany] two ideas: filebrowser and scribble

[Lex Trotman]

On 14 May 2010 19:47, startx <startx at plentyfact.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:16:54 +1000
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 14 May 2010 16:41, startx <startx at plentyfact.org> wrote:
> >
> > > hello.
> > >
> > > i "discovered" geany only a few month ago and i really love it.
> > >
> > > 1) however,  was wondering about the filebrowser:
> > >
> > > would it be hard to extend the filebrowser functionality with
> > > standard operations like "delete, copy, cut, paste, rename" of
> > > files? is this planned for the near future?
> > >
> > > despite my long "love and hate" relationship with eclipse, i always
> > > liked the fact that i did not have to leave the IDE to do such
> > > operations there.
> > >
> >
> > I don't agree. This doesn't seem to me to be IDE specific
> > functionality and I think adding it would be contrary to the light
> > weight nature of Geany.
>
> well, i am not sure here. i would consider renaming or deleting files
> part of my project workflow.
>
> i would not say that a filebrowser would make geany very "heavy",
> gedit has such a filebrowser in the sidepane (looks almost like the
> geany one). i am not a gtk expert but i assume its some kind of gtk
> standard widget, no?
>
>
Um, actually no, the file browser uses the GTK tree widget for display but
all the file handling is coded in the plugin & there is 1200 lines of it.

I guess it is less critical since its a plugin so users can decide for
themselves if they want to use it.

I just don't understand the point of trying to jam all functionality into
one tool in a windowed environment when what you want is already available
in another with drag and drop and full functionality.  Its not as if you can
only run Geany and nothing else as it was when Emacs became a de facto
operating system :-)

I have just gotten used to the Unix philosophy of each tool doing one thing
well & I hate massive integrated tools.

Cheers
Lex


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