On Fri, 14 May 2010 21:42:49 +1000 Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 May 2010 19:47, startx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:16:54 +1000 > > Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 14 May 2010 16:41, startx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > hello. > > > > > > > > i "discovered" geany only a few month ago and i really love it. > > > > > > > > 1) however, was wondering about the filebrowser: > > > > > > > > would it be hard to extend the filebrowser functionality with > > > > standard operations like "delete, copy, cut, paste, rename" of > > > > files? is this planned for the near future? > > > > > > > > despite my long "love and hate" relationship with eclipse, i > > > > always liked the fact that i did not have to leave the IDE to > > > > do such operations there. > > > > > > > > > > I don't agree. This doesn't seem to me to be IDE specific > > > functionality and I think adding it would be contrary to the light > > > weight nature of Geany. > > > > well, i am not sure here. i would consider renaming or deleting > > files part of my project workflow. > > > > i would not say that a filebrowser would make geany very "heavy", > > gedit has such a filebrowser in the sidepane (looks almost like the > > geany one). i am not a gtk expert but i assume its some kind of gtk > > standard widget, no? > > > > > Um, actually no, the file browser uses the GTK tree widget for > display but all the file handling is coded in the plugin & there is > 1200 lines of it. > > I guess it is less critical since its a plugin so users can decide for > themselves if they want to use it. > > I just don't understand the point of trying to jam all functionality > into one tool in a windowed environment when what you want is already > available in another with drag and drop and full functionality. Its > not as if you can only run Geany and nothing else as it was when > Emacs became a de facto operating system :-) > > I have just gotten used to the Unix philosophy of each tool doing one > thing well & I hate massive integrated tools. Yepp, even from time to time I can understand reasons why you like to have more and more features inside a IDE, this is what a tool making slow. This is not happening immediately, but step by step. However, why not forking and extending the filebrowser plugin or as already suggested have a look onto the treeview plugin and maybe extending this. Personally I like the file browser plugin as it is to be honest. mv, rm, cp etc I'm doing inside the little terminal on very bottom of Geany ;) Cheers, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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