[...] >> >> I just taught the file mangler to run geany -c so it never interrupts >> what a normal Geany is doing :) > > I don't think that's something everybody should need to do. >
Yes, true. [...] > I personally do think what we do is definitely the Wrong Thing. > Honestly, I always have found this behavior very counter-intuitive and > not helpful. I mean, if I tell Geany to restore my session, I expect it > to be restored whenever I start Geany, not only in some cases. > Looking at it like that, then the current behaviour is wrong. I also checked a few other apps and all restore past sessions and add the new file to it, so I would say this is the behaviour a user would expect. > OK, for me it's not a real problem since I always have one or more Geany > instance open, but remembering the early times I did unexpectedly lost > some session data because of this behavior. > > To summarize, I think that the current behavior will most likely NOT be > the expected one and will disturb most users. See, even us do > workaround that in some ways, either using -c or having an instance > always open. Or both, so I *never* saw it as a problem :) > > So I'd say "aye" to Dimitar since he gently volunteered :) Moreover if > it is a preference I don't see any loss; but I'd better see this > preference turned on by default for new configurations if the restore > session one is on. > Colomban has been so persuasive that I don't even think it needs another option, the suggested behaviour is non-destructive, so why not just turn restoring sessions on or off. Cheers Lex _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
