> >> my personal preference is to always wrap search, but keep the find > >> dialog open. > > > > This is your personal preference only.
Yes, I was just saying that I would like my personal preference to be possible > I'm not really against having a General -> Search tab, but I'm not sure > having a tab with 3/4 settings only is so much better. Ok, thats fine > > >> - Remove the "Always wrap search and hide the Find dialog" setting. > > > > What about the people who prefer to always hide the open dialog? > > +1, that's a feature we have and people use, I don't think we should > remove it. Sorry, I wasn't suggesting to remove the feature, just to make it more customizable. > >> - Make 'Wrap search' checked by default. > > > > And that'll irritate anyone who prefers not to wrap, and has to uncheck > > 'Wrap search' any time (s)he starts Geany. > > Yep, that's a default value that will probably please 50% users and > annoy the other 50%. A pref's good, but changing the default doesn't > make much sense if you ain't got no well-done statistics about most > spread user opinion. The reason I thought of putting the 'wrap search' checkbox on the Find dialog, is that the 'close dialog' checkbox does remember it's state after closing and restarting Geany. So a user would only ever need to change it once. > > There is one, and only one thing, that is unquestionably better IMHO: > > separate [ ] "Always wrap search and hide the Find dialog" into > > [ ] "Always wrap search" and [ ] "Hide the Find dialog". It can even be > > implemented in backwards-compatible way, so if the lead developers > > approve, I'll give it a try. > > Yep, this sounds sensible to me. It'd be better flexible and I can > understand somebody was one and not the other. So yeah, go ahead :) That's fine too, I'd be very happy if I could just configure each setting separately. Thanks very much for your responses! Nathan _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel