Re: [Geany-Devel] Gtk2 vs Gtk3 (was. Re: A direction for Geany)

2013-11-13 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 13.11.2013 01:21, schrieb Matthew Brush: That's a fair[1] argument *if* those old distros aren't shipping GTK3 binaries/libraries (I can't say whether they are or not), otherwise it's a bogus point because then we're only talking about a very very small number of users who (all of these

Re: [Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

2013-11-13 Thread Lex Trotman
[...] How many Geany on Windows users are there? is it 90% POSIX/10% Windows? Or more? Less? I'm a big fan of the 90% rule. If 90% of the users don't need/want it, don't implement or support it. Same goes for library versions: if 90%+ has GTK3, it's safe to require that. Because Geany

Re: [Geany-Devel] Gtk2 vs Gtk3 (was. Re: A direction for Geany)

2013-11-13 Thread Lex Trotman
[...] I'm *really really really* tired of this topic. This comes up every now and then, with the same bulled points over and over and with no outcome at all (we're still at 2.16 after a couple of discussions even though nobody explicitly says we need to be at this specific version). Agree,

Re: [Geany-Devel] Gtk2 vs Gtk3 (was. Re: A direction for Geany)

2013-11-13 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 13.11.2013 00:15, schrieb Lex Trotman: This might be a MATE issue, I run both GTK2 and GTK3 in Mint Cinnamon and havn't seen theme issues. (default Mint theme, I'm too lazy to change it :) If by bookmarks you mean recently used then it definitely updates from both, but how accurately and

Re: [Geany-Devel] Gtk2 vs Gtk3 (was. Re: A direction for Geany)

2013-11-13 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 13.11.2013 00:48, schrieb Lex Trotman: Because many distros are more than 3 years old and still supported. Geany has users (and developers) in commercial and academic environments which will often be constrained to older (but still supported) versions of Red Hat, Scientific Linux, Suse

Re: [Geany-Devel] Gtk2 vs Gtk3 (was. Re: A direction for Geany)

2013-11-13 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 13.11.2013 11:46, schrieb Lex Trotman: Note, the windows nightly builder web page actually says its built against 2.14.7, does anyone know if thats right? At least some of the plugins will not. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

2013-11-13 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 13.11.2013 11:30, schrieb Lex Trotman: Because Geany does not install spyware to see where it is used, we really don't know. :) Well... we got the updatecheckerplugin ... but there is and will no data collection. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

2013-11-13 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 13.11.2013 11:30, schrieb Lex Trotman: I was thinking of asking on the users ML, after we agreed the questions here first. But do we want to? Are we looking for market share? Or are we interested in making the best software that suits the contributors, and if its useful to others fine?

Re: [Geany-Devel] Gtk2 vs Gtk3 (was. Re: A direction for Geany)

2013-11-13 Thread Yosef Or Boczko
בתאריך ד', נוב 13, 2013 בשעה 12:46 PM, Lex Trotman ele...@gmail.com כתב: [...] I'm *really really really* tired of this topic. This comes up every now and then, with the same bulled points over and over and with no outcome at all (we're still at 2.16 after a couple of discussions even

Re: [Geany-Devel] Let's use Vala

2013-11-13 Thread Steven Blatnick
Wow, you found the article :-) From what I've seen of geany, the code looks much better than some code I've seen. It didn't take as long to familiarize myself with the basic structure since the code files are well named and the directory structure is far from deep ;-) One of the reasons I

Re: [Geany-Devel] Let's use Vala

2013-11-13 Thread Matthew Brush
On 13-11-13 08:21 AM, Steven Blatnick wrote: Wow, you found the article :-) From what I've seen of geany, the code looks much better than some code I've seen. It didn't take as long to familiarize myself with the basic structure since the code files are well named and the directory structure

[Geany-Devel] Replace Find by default in the Replace dialog

2013-11-13 Thread Pallai Roland
Hi, I made a PR: https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/189 It's not a big deal, but might come handy for some. What do you think? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel