> > > Maybe one dependency you might consider is shared-mime-info - I use it 
> > > for the macOS build too. It allows to determine the right icon for a file 
> > > type based on its mime type. This then works e.g. with the file browser 
> > > plugin (but the result also depends on the used icon theme if it provides 
> > > corresponding filetype icons).
> 
> > Alright, I just added it. But as you know, I can't test it :).
> 
> Hmm, I don't see any difference so it can probably be dropped. I think it's 
> because of the Adwaita icon theme which doesn't provide many mime type icons 
> (the theme I use on macOS has many more mime type icons 
> https://github.com/geany/geany-osx/tree/master/Papirus/16x16/mimetypes)

Ok. I think we could still keep it in, maybe it gives other advantages as well.

> > I think I will finally look for a new Windows maintainer.
> 
> I don't think there will be crowds of people wanting to do that ;-)

Don't destroy all my hopes to get out of the Windows hell :)

> > And until one is found or even if not, the quality of the Windows releases 
> > might decrease.
> 
> I believe there aren't any major problems though - or any new problems at 
> least. Those various things like problems with file encodings have probably 
> always been there and some things are probably GTK related and nothing we can 
> fix in Geany.
> 
> So I think the main issue is to have CI running and being able to make 
> releases (which you could also do using CI or a local docker image if you 
> don't have access to a real Windows machine - I can survive testing the 
> result from time to time ;-)

Actually, right now we *have* to make releases from the CI as I cannot build 
natively on Windows anymore. And I got it almost running already, will PR it 
soonish.

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