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Tag : geany

About distribution bugtrackers, delays and rays of hope

We all know the fancy bugtrackers of the various distributions. I don't have a doubt the idea behind was good and for distribution specific bugs they are great.

But when it comes to concrete application specific bugs, it often happens that users report them to the distribution bugtrackers instead of to the specific software project. At this point, it depends how deep is the relation between the distribution packager of the relevant software package and the upstream authors.

Based on my personal experience, the conversation between down- and upstream is not always as good and intensive as it should ...

Strange search results

While viewing the logs of geany.uvena.de, I noticed one of the logged search keyphrases was "die moldau friedrich smetana".

As this classical music composer and his most popular symphonic poem "The Moldau" is in no way related to Geany, it's quite surprising that a very popular search engine lists geany.uvena.de as the first hit in the results list.

I'm wondering and happy ;-).

Geany

This is my most interesting and most actively developed project. Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME. So it is using only the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run Geany.

Basic features of Geany:

  • syntax highlighting
  • code folding
  • code completion
  • snippet completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
  • auto completion of ...