[Geany-Users] no Terminal tab in Geany preferences??

[Frank Lanitz]

Am 01.03.2013 04:08, schrieb Lex Trotman:
> On 1 March 2013 13:54, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On 01/03/2013 10:27, Colomban Wendling wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> hyperair at thinkpwn:~% apt-cache depends geany | grep  vte
>>>>   Suggests: libvte9
>>>>
>>>> That's suggests, not recommends, so it's not dragged in by default.
>>>
>>> Hum, it probably should become a recommend IMHO, it's an important
>>> feature and it used to be available to most people (because libvte9 used
>>> to be installed by other apps like gnome-terminal, which now depends on
>>> libvte-2.90-9).
>>
>> Why not just make it a hard dependency that's enabled by building against it at
>> build time instead of dlopen()ing it?
> 
> IIUC that would mean that Geany binaries could not be run on any
> system without libvte9 installed, the user would have to re-compile?
> That doesn't sound acceptable to me.

I second this.

Cheers,
Frank