We always prefer to NOT use various, its intended to be for things that are VERY rarely touched, indeed originally those settings had no GUI. Unfortunately its become somewhat of a dumping ground, so thanks for offering alternatives.
The preferences GUI sets the default symbol sort order for new documents and the right click sets it for the current documents symbols only, so they are not mutually exclusive and so the right answer actually is "both of these". Since you probably want to be able to make it default you need to add it to the preferences GUI, but be aware that needs you to use Glade 3.8 to support GTK2 properly (3.8.5 to 3.8.6.1 should work IIUC). Unfortunately its rarely available in repositories so you have to download source from the Glade site and compile. Please don't edit the Glade file manually, you don't know where Glade would have put stuff if it had added it, so it often makes many ordering changes next time its used after a manual edit, making reviewing harder. The popup is created by code [here](https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/bf5c9eddd8a500577719af7fc7f1c1ffb8044a49/src/symbols.c#L2579). I guess name and appearance sort options should expand to name case, name non-case and appearance options. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/2074#issuecomment-460596317
