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
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 18:42, Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.com wrote:
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
:D +x as x goes to infinity (disclaimer: I am doing physics hw)
Le Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:43:46 -0500, Robert Xu robxu9@gmail.com a écrit :
+x as x goes to infinity (disclaimer: I am doing physics hw)
Should I be you, I would have explicitly mentioned that x goes to positive infinity : it could have been negative infinity, or even unsigned infinity (for example with the Alexandroff compactification of R) ;)
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 19:02, /dev/ammo42 mickeytintincolle@yahoo.fr wrote:
Le Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:43:46 -0500, Robert Xu robxu9@gmail.com a écrit :
+x as x goes to infinity (disclaimer: I am doing physics hw)
Should I be you, I would have explicitly mentioned that x goes to positive infinity : it could have been negative infinity, or even unsigned infinity (for example with the Alexandroff compactification of R) ;)
_> I'm assuming positive infinity XD
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
Timothy Pearson wrote:
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
good to see this fixed :-) when developers decide removing features is a good idea they have truly started in the wrong direction ....
PK
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). ;-)
good to see this fixed :-) when developers decide removing features is a good idea they have truly started in the wrong direction ....
Thanks! :D
When I found the original svn merge and noticed the patches were labeled "useless crap" I lost my respect for that developer right then and there. Those features harmed nobody and some of us found them helpful. Arrogance.
Another example is TDE bug report 245 (http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=245). Most web browsers support these context menu options and even after many complained the menu never was restored. There are other KDE bug reports against that same change that got marked as duplicate reports. I found the code snippets for when the context menu was changed and made a note in our bugzilla. Perhaps we can restore that too.
Little things....
Oh well. Fixed! Let's be happy. Woo hoo! :)
Now if only I can find time to actually learn some C++ fundamentals....
Darrell