30 Nov
2011
30 Nov
'11
1:59 a.m.
Timothy Pearson wrote:
good to see this fixed :-) when developers decide removing features is a good idea they
have truly started in the wrong direction ....
PK
The little
things tend to make a difference in our lives. Long ago in this
galaxy, a KDE developer decided that being able to specify the number of
files in Kate's Most Recently Used (MRU) file list, and to sort the files
in the Documents file pane, was "useless crap."
To me those features never were "useless crap." I have missed those
features for a long time.
I found the patches where those features were removed.
I am not a C++ coder, not even close. Yet I was able to reverse the
patches and add a little "TQT" love.
By golly, the widgets actually appear in Kate! Once again I can set the
size of the MRU list to something greater than 10 and sort the file list.
Current Kate 3.5.13 picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-before.png
Patched Kate picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-after.png
The number widget works great. I think some of you will love that restored
feature.
Took me a while to realize the sorting option affects the files in the
Documents list pane and not in the MRU list. :)
I uploaded the patch to bug report 244.
Woo-hoo! :)
Darrell
Nice work! This attention to detail is one of the advantages of the TDE
project, and is made possible by those who invest their time in
adding/fixing "useless features" (which in reality are quite useful in
less common situations). ;-)
Tim
