26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
11:28 a.m.
I've been looking for a way to do this, and
Darrell also
mentioned
that he was looking for a was to use the Multiple Document
Interface
with firefox.
I have written a patch that will enable you to only use a
single kate
window. It is controlled by a kate kconfig option and can be
changed
under kate's general settings tab.
Looks like the new option is placed in $TDEHOME/share/config/katerc [General]
UseInstance=0/1?
I see the check box in your patch, but I haven't yet tried to build.
Tim, Can we push this into the master? is this
something we
even want
to have? I like it personally, I understand if other don't.
Remember
it is optional so it won't impact anything when disabled,
and will be
disabled by default.
With the check box I don't see a conflict. The default should be OFF because SDI is
the current behavior. Only those who want an MDI would enable the check box.
Bug report 692 addresses this issue. Tim bumped the priority to Blocker, so I am guessing
he will be interested in testing the patch. :)
What do you think? Darrell with this satisfy what you
were
looking for?
We'll have to do some testing. Do you have any kind of test plan? For example, does
the new option conflict with the --use parameter? Do users need to disable the --use
parameter in all of their *.desktop parameters? I believe the default in all kate related
*.desktop files do not have the --use parameter enabled, but I have that changed here
because I want an MDI.
We should find people who prefer the SDI to test the patch. When they test with the check
box enabled, they will have a different perspective than us MDI users.
I also need to test the patch with Firefox, as I mentioned in previous posts.
This is using the 3.5.13 resources, prior to the
rename.
Some things
might need to change (kde to tde stuff).
I can fix those. :)
Darrell