Re: Bug#44845: Save filelist in Kate

On Sunday 07 July 2002 19:28, [email protected] wrote:
> Package: kate
> Version: 2.0 (using KDE 3.0.5 )
> Severity: wishlist
> Installed from:    compiled sources
> Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)
> OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.2.18
> OS/Compiler notes:
>
> I want to be able to save the file list in Kate.

It is on the TODO list, and hopefully one of us gets to that soon.
Idears - more detailled than this complaint - would be greatly appreciated.

> Currently, I can only edit one app at a time, which means that I have one
> project running in Kate, and then use Vim for every edit I use.  I dislike
> vim, I like Kate, but until this is fixed, I use Kate for only a tiny
> amount of my time.

I completely don't understand?

I can have any number of documents open in kate, as long as i have memory... 
Apart from the fact that you have to manually manage file lists, I don't see 
the problem.

> KDE permits Controlled SDI.  In other words, the actual document Kate
> should open is the file list.  The current Kate style, MDI, is specifically
> not permitted by the KDE style guide!  Please make Kate Controlled SDI, or
> at least, provide a nice way to have multiple instances of Kate running,
> with different file lsits in each, and don't make them trample on eachother
> either.

Well, we, the kate developers, agreed on the MDI style we have, as that was 
what made us feel good. It has a lot of features.

We did have a SDI mode, but it didn't really work well, so it was ditched. 
Maybe in the future, it will be a choice, but implementing that is non 
trivial, neither is deciding on designs. Will you help? Personally, since I 
originally introduced the frame splitting, I am not very keen on it. I really 
enjoy working with it as it is, though I would like file lists too.

On a side note, Kate has a configuration dialog, amongst others revealing the 
option "Allow Kate to use more than 1 UNIX process" - maybe not the most 
obvious text, but it does allow you to run more instances. They won't be able 
to keep distinct session config though. Yet...

We are glad you appreciate Kate enough to get frustrated this way, so I hope 
we can get all that working before too long...

-anders