`geany` does not launch with correct directory

[id027102]

The problem

If I use "geany" as editor , geany opens with "Open with geany" , but it opens in last used directory , not in choosed repo.

When using "Visual Studio Code" it opens well in the good directory .

"Show in your file manager" is also Ok

Release version

3.2.1-linux1 (x64)

Operating system

Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.20-2 (2023-04-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Choose repo
2. Open in Geany

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Additional context

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[shiftkey]

If I use "geany" as editor , geany opens with "Open with geany" , but it opens in last used directory , not in choosed repo.

Is there something with the command line interface for geany that means our trick of passing in a path as the first argument doesn't work? Is it expecting something else?

desktop/app/src/lib/helpers/linux.ts

Line 103 in 217a7da

return spawn(path, [workingDirectory], options)

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[id027102]

Its easy , install geany and try.
If you have a repo named test , geany will open a file named test in the last directory he was busy.
Visual Stududio is ok he open the folder test , geany not.
So I am not a developper , but I think the parameters passed to geany are not correct

[shiftkey]

Its easy , install geany and try.

I have limited time for this project at the moment so any extra instructions or documentation you can point me to would help here.

If you have a repo named test , geany will open a file named test in the last directory he was busy.

This is the bit that's not clear to me - do you pass any arguments to geany when this happens? Do you launch it via the command line? Or do you launch it some other way?

[id027102]

No arguments, in github-desktop ->File->Options->Integration->External Editor I choose geany that's all I think github-desktop call geany with repo as argument (is working so with visual studio which opens folders , but geany does not open folder but file) It's github-desktop gives visual studio and geany as choice , and I wanted to try geany Thanks for your time

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[theofficialgman]

geany has no notion of opening a folder. Sorry I was the one who had it added to shiftkey/destop. Opening specific files works fine but there isn't any way to open a folder with geany.
you can see that I mention this in the PR comment: #711

I knew then when adding it but felt that it still deserved to be there since geany is such a common file editor and it works fine when opening a specific file (like right clicking on one in the commit history and selecting open in geany)

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