On Friday 22 January 2016 08:51:39 Baron wrote:
Hi Thierry, All,
On Thursday 21 January 2016 22:25:34 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Thursday 21 January 2016 22.41:53 Baron wrote:
Hi Thierry,
I don't care for "kate" either. I am trying to get rid of it !
I originally went into Synaptic and tried to remove it from there, but it wanted to remove most of TDE. So I chickened out and tried to rename every instance that I could find to stop it opening up when ever I selected a text file. I also tried "open with" and "remember application". So I've now been round and deleted every instance that I can find, but it simply replaces the renamed or deleted files.
-- Best Regards: Baron
Seems we'll need some of the wizards that make TDE. I thought maybe deleting or renaming the program would do - but after deleting /opt/trinity/bin/kate... I can still start kate!
I would guess parts of kate are integrated in konqueror (as it seems to be the default editor).
So removing kate seems at least very difficult. It is the default embeded editor (and there is no other editor proposed in the list in the ControlCenter. I can associate kedit with *.txt files, but kate remains the default embeded editor.
This may explain why it's difficult (impossible?) to remove, but I've never seen it respawning.
Thierry
Thanks Thierry, When I delete the "kate" directory in ".trinity/share/apps/" the next time I open "apps" it's back... Maybe respawning was the wrong word ?
Lisi, It's R14.0. I hadn't checked "KControl". But now you have pointed it out I will check there. Thanks.
Gerhard, Thanks for the instructions on changing its priority in "Application Preference Order" seems to work. At least it doesn't grab the "txt" files anymore.
That has been my solution to getting rid of kate. I liked gedit, but it scrambled the contents of a file one too many times so I'm using geany now. A pretty face, less capable, but has yet to scramble a file just while changing one byte in it. Plugins are gradually appearing as coders scratch their own personal itches.
I think my distaste for kate probably starts with its default font selections. Ugly is being kind...
Thanks all for your help, its appreciated.
Cheers, Gene Heskett