• quinkin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For those like me wondering what it is:

    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 - Geany only requires the GTK3 runtime libraries.

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      1 year ago

      Finally!

      Even their own website won’t tell you.

      Lots of people are TRYING to leave windows and go to Linux. Please keep posting these informative descriptions.

        • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It’s a text editor for development, basically. The goal is to make it light and independent of all the Linux desktop environments (so it can be included with any distro). So, if you’re putting together a lightweight, minimalist setup using LXCE or XFCE, you could install Geany without a bunch of Gnome or KDE libraries being installed as dependencies.

          A use case might be to install it on Raspian (for a Raspberry Pi). It’d be a step up from just using a plain text editor without requiring much more in the way of resources.