[MacPorts] #65660: geany: installing via MacPorts results in either a flickery GUI or wrong or no icon when processing switching via tab key

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#65660: geany: installing via MacPorts results in either a flickery GUI or wrong or
no icon when processing switching via tab key
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  Reporter:  simonhf  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal   |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports    |    Version:
Resolution:           |   Keywords:
      Port:  geany    |
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Comment (by kencu):

 I installed geany on the current Intel system (12.5) using the X11 default
 variant, MacPorts xorg-server, and otherwise all defaults.

 I couldn’t get any flickering to happen, building several simple projects
 and compiling/running them. So perhaps the flickering is arm64 only? I
 recall hearing something about flickering in some gtk apps from John Ralls
 previously. Maybe he fixed something for arm gtk apps that we haven’t done
 yet…

 The nicer icon and lack of “exec” box in their build are likely because
 the geany project has written a nice macos launcher application that does
 the right things to make macos happy. MacPorts is using a simpler
 mechanism provided by the “app” Portgroup, which is very easy and works
 broadly, but is not as full-featured.

 The launcher they have written could be added to our geany build with
 modest effort I think.

 The launcher might also be an interesting template for something we could
 use to enhance the app Portgroup someday… we have always known the simple
 method used in the app Portgroup could be enhanced with such a proper
 launcher, and there it is…

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