On 11-10-31 04:50 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
Hi All,
One area of Geany has been annoying me for some time.
At the moment project settings mix session related settings and truely
project settings. The session settings are really user specific
whilst the project settings are project related. This means that if
the project file is in VCS it keeps updating as the session settings
change. You can turn session settings off, but then you lose that
functionality.
The proposal is to separate these, with the session settings stored in
the user config directory under a projects subdir and the project
settings stored wherever the user wants. The options ~/projects or in
the tree would be available as they are now.
To prevent the config dir getting too cluttered the session files can
be kept only as long as the project remains in the recent projects
list. (maybe needs a separate length setting, currently uses
file_prefs.mru_length)
I will have some time next week, so this thread is to get ideas or
objections sorted before then.
I like the idea of having workspaces/profiles, so that on startup (with
option to not ask again) and then later through a menu, you can choose
one of your profiles to load the settings like, indentation, long-line
marker, colour scheme, etc.
IMO, projects should only store things like build commands, paths to
project files, project meta-data, etc.
Sessions should be user-transparent things like window geometry, number
of instances opened, last project/files, etc. and maybe should be
workspace/profile-specific.
I think this is how most other IDEs I've used handle the situation if
I'm not mistaken.
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
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