On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:51:54 +0100 Colomban Wendling <lists....@herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> Le 19/02/2012 01:06, Lex Trotman a écrit : > > [...] > >>> > >>> I just taught the file mangler to run geany -c so it never > >>> interrupts what a normal Geany is doing :) > >> > >> I don't think that's something everybody should need to do. > >> > > > > Yes, true. > > > > [...] > >> I personally do think what we do is definitely the Wrong Thing. > >> Honestly, I always have found this behavior very counter-intuitive > >> and not helpful. I mean, if I tell Geany to restore my session, I > >> expect it to be restored whenever I start Geany, not only in some > >> cases. > >> > > > > Looking at it like that, then the current behaviour is wrong. > > > > I also checked a few other apps and all restore past sessions and > > add the new file to it, so I would say this is the behaviour a user > > would expect. > > > > > >> OK, for me it's not a real problem since I always have one or more > >> Geany instance open, but remembering the early times I did > >> unexpectedly lost some session data because of this behavior. > >> > >> To summarize, I think that the current behavior will most likely > >> NOT be the expected one and will disturb most users. See, even us > >> do workaround that in some ways, either using -c or having an > >> instance always open. > > > > Or both, so I *never* saw it as a problem :) > > > >> > >> So I'd say "aye" to Dimitar since he gently volunteered :) > >> Moreover if it is a preference I don't see any loss; but I'd > >> better see this preference turned on by default for new > >> configurations if the restore session one is on. > >> > > > > Colomban has been so persuasive > > Hehe :D > > > that I don't even think it needs > > another option, the suggested behaviour is non-destructive, so why > > not just turn restoring sessions on or off. > > Agreed, another pref isn't needed, either always restore or never > restore should be enough; IMO too. > > Sounds reasonable to everybody? > I agree. _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
