Hello together
I am 20 years old and new in the OpenSource World. Since a half year i use Fedora Spins KDE. For me its the most stable distribution i ever used (I tried nearly any big KDE Distro). I will start to contribution on this. My problem is that i am not god in programing and don't have much time because work, education.... I hope i can contribute with some ideas to make Fedora KDE a more consistent Distribution.
In Fedora KDE is kwrite installed as default. For me it make more sence to install kate as default, because its much more powerful.
greetings from Switzerland Severin
#LRD wrote:
In Fedora KDE is kwrite installed as default. For me it make more sence to install kate as default, because its much more powerful.
While kate is more useful to *you*, it's not necessarily the same for our target audience. Can you justify the change for them too?
As far what is our target audience, here's at least some thoughts we put together awhile back (probably should make that more official-ish): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/KDE_Target_Audience
-- Rex
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 8:32 AM #LRD severin.beutler@outlook.com wrote:
Hello together
I am 20 years old and new in the OpenSource World. Since a half year i use Fedora Spins KDE. For me its the most stable distribution i ever used (I tried nearly any big KDE Distro). I will start to contribution on this. My problem is that i am not god in programing and don't have much time because work, education.... I hope i can contribute with some ideas to make Fedora KDE a more consistent Distribution.
In Fedora KDE is kwrite installed as default. For me it make more sence to install kate as default, because its much more powerful.
greetings from Switzerland Severin
I don't know the exact reason why we currently have kwrite as default instead of kate, but I believe it is due to wanting a smaller default install size.
Package Size: kwrite: 256 k kate: 6.2 M
Installation Size: Installing kate you end up with 50M more than with kwrite.
There might be other reasons, like integration, but I don't know them. I'm not saying it's a bad idea to switch, I'm just giving one reason why it might be the way it currently is.
Troy
#LRD wrote:
In Fedora KDE is kwrite installed as default. For me it make more sence to install kate as default, because its much more powerful.
KWrite and Kate offer essentially the same functionality for editing a document. (They use the same editor component, the KatePart.) What Kate does in addition is the session management, which makes it half way between an editor an an IDE (integrated development environment), whereas KWrite is a traditional SDI (single document interface).
Kate's session system can be especially annoying in combination with file associations: if you click on a file in the file manager or on the desktop, should it open it in your existing session (what Kate normally does) or start a new one? And then, if you want to permanently close a document, you have to explicitly close it before closing Kate, or it will be remembered in your default session and get reopened when you restart Kate.
So, for quickly opening a document, KWrite is the more intuitive interface.
Kevin Kofler
Am 27.10.18 um 03:33 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
Kate's session system can be especially annoying in combination with file associations: if you click on a file in the file manager or on the desktop, should it open it in your existing session (what Kate normally does) or start a new one? And then, if you want to permanently close a document, you have to explicitly close it before closing Kate, or it will be remembered in your default session and get reopened when you restart Kate.
i use kate for years now and it does not reopen anything, maybe a stupid default that i changed years ago
Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 27.10.18 um 03:33 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
Kate's session system can be especially annoying in combination with file associations: if you click on a file in the file manager or on the desktop, should it open it in your existing session (what Kate normally does) or start a new one? And then, if you want to permanently close a document, you have to explicitly close it before closing Kate, or it will be remembered in your default session and get reopened when you restart Kate.
i use kate for years now and it does not reopen anything
I confirmed that it does not reopen sessions by default, options wrt sessions are: start new session load last used session manually choose a session (default)
-- Rex
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