Re: [Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

2013-11-14 Thread Matthew Brush
On 13-11-14 10:56 AM, Dimitar Zhekov wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:47:26 -0800 Matthew Brush wrote: On 13-11-12 10:43 AM, Dimitar Zhekov wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 01:31:35 -0800 Matthew Brush wrote: 1. An architecture that allows multi-threading to be used for non-GUI tasks. Another (pe

Re: [Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

2013-11-14 Thread Dimitar Zhekov
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:59:47 +0100 Harold Aling wrote: > 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 > 9

Re: [Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

2013-11-14 Thread Dimitar Zhekov
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:47:26 -0800 Matthew Brush wrote: > On 13-11-12 10:43 AM, Dimitar Zhekov wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 01:31:35 -0800 > > Matthew Brush wrote: > > > >>> 1. An architecture that allows multi-threading to be used for non-GUI > >>> tasks. > >> > >> Another (perhaps more obvio

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

2013-11-14 Thread Dimitar Zhekov
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:27:20 -0800 Matthew Brush wrote: > Unless we're going to switch toolkits or someone is volunteering to > maintain a fork, there's really no logical reason to avoid the > inevitable, [switch to GTK+3] I've heard this a lot when Vista came out. And it never got > 18% marke

Re: [Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

2013-11-14 Thread Harold Aling
On 14 November 2013 13:51, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Am 14.11.2013 01:18, schrieb Matthew Brush: > >> It's a great idea but as you mentioned on IRC, we really have no way to >> know how representative subscribers to the users list are. For example >> maybe only X out of every X^Y Geany users subscribe

Re: [Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

2013-11-14 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 14.11.2013 01:18, schrieb Matthew Brush: > It's a great idea but as you mentioned on IRC, we really have no way to > know how representative subscribers to the users list are. For example > maybe only X out of every X^Y Geany users subscribes to the mailing > list, so even if we ask and N peopl