Sat 21 May 2005
I just compiled version 2.0.0 of Anjuta today, not to be confused with Anjuta 2/Scaffold though it uses a lot of the libraries and plugins that were developed for Scaffold. This is what Scaffold should have been but didn’t have enough momentum to achive. Congrats go to the Anjuta team. The interface is clean and uncluttered and the GDL windows are a dream to work with (the Gimp really should look into using the GDL for its docks). There are still some little annoyances and bugs that I will be filing, like the need for syntax highlighting themes in lieu of having to pick colors that suite my needs, or the fact that docks don’t save their hights and widths when they are iconified and then expanded. Another thing I would like to see is a context based layout switching mechanism. For instance when glade documents can be embeded into the documents dock it would be nice when switching to it the layout of anjuta changed to show me the widget palette and propery browser. When I switch back to a C document those would go away and the symbol browser would reappear. As always I would love to help out on this so if I can send a patch here and there I will. Here is a screenshot of Anjuta in action as a simple code editor.

Me bandaiding a gnome-cd deadlock
Man Garrett
That is a worse accident then I got into. Good to see you and your wife are ok. Isn’t it weird how calm it gets once you relize there isn’t much you can do but ride out the event? I think people experience similar emotions in such situations. Again glad to see you are ok.
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May 21st, 2005 at 8:20 am
You probably wanted “in lieu” (instead of) rather than “in loo” (in toilets, in British English)
July 9th, 2005 at 1:53 am
Hi!
I was looking for a anjuta 2 packages for debian. In google i found a repositorie in martianrock.com Do you have one? can you send me it please. Sorry for my english
Roberto
July 9th, 2005 at 11:29 am
Sorry, I have no idea if it is packaged for Debian yet. It has been years since I have worked with Debian myself. Best to ask teh Anjta developers
January 26th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
I just tried an apt-get of anjuta on my Debian system. First off, that wasn’t a very good package because it didn’t pull in the dependencies like an apt package should. Whatever, I THINK that I got them all resolved. I then tried to use it as I would a MFC wizard created GUI app for the IDE. Lots of warnings and an error I couldn’t parse, it said to run the config myself on the command line. Hmm.
OK, so this is open source and not everything is perfect, but with all of the praise being heaped on anjuta I would have figured that the package would actually work. I suppose that it does for some things, and it is rough around the edges in others, but in three and a half years I figured that it would have improved a bit more. (2002 was the last time I tried it).
I admit it, I’m spoiled by IDEs that work on those “other” operating systems, but I’m a programmer that wants to create applications, I don’t want to be a Linux sys admin to do it. I keep hoping, but Linux just isn’t there yet.
Does anyone know of an IDE that does actually work on (Debian) Linux? I’ve heard a lot about KDevelope, but if it has the same sort of spotty functionality…
Anjuta does look cool, but I’ld like the helpful tools to work on it as well as the more nuts-n-bolts parts.
IMO, YMMV,
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