I like it. Good work! Thank you!
Kate editor on all platforms
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Re: Kate editor on all platforms
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, Waqar! If I’m not mistaken, you also contributed to my own Notes app https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes , so thanks! Can you please point where in Kate’s source code I’ll see the implementation for this? That would be super helpful.
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/tree/master/...
Thanks!
Re: Kate editor on all platforms
#153The only problem I have with Kate these days is... its icon. It's been there for years now, and yet my mind still just stops for a noticeable bunch of milliseconds whenever it has to recognize it. For some reason it looks like it represents some brand's useless mobile app rather than a proper utility and my mind somehow refuses to associate it with Kate.
Before we had that, we had a icon that just looked like a text file mime type with zero recognizably.
Even if you used it for a week, you would not be able to know which application is running just looking at the icon. Could be any editor or some word processor.
With the current one, it is clear. And yes, I think that makes sense, that is a brand.
And it is what most other applications do, too. I doubt my mother has any idea what e.g. the Chromium icon means, but once seen a few times, it is clearly recognizable.
Re: Kate editor on all platforms
#154Re: Kate editor on all platforms
#155I really loved the overall design and functionality of kate back in the day, but I also really loved vim as my actual editor. kept hoping that the vimpart (vim embedded in kate as the editor component) would actually go somewhere, but it never did.
yzis never took of, yes.
Re: Kate editor on all platforms
#156I really loved the overall design and functionality of kate back in the day, but I also really loved vim as my actual editor. kept hoping that the vimpart (vim embedded in kate as the editor component) would actually go somewhere, but it never did.
yzis never took of, yes.
there was also https://kate-editor.org/kate-vi-mode/ which never got fully usable
Re: Kate editor on all platforms
#157The only problem I have with Kate these days is... its icon. It's been there for years now, and yet my mind still just stops for a noticeable bunch of milliseconds whenever it has to recognize it. For some reason it looks like it represents some brand's useless mobile app rather than a proper utility and my mind somehow refuses to associate it with Kate.
Before we had that, we had a icon that just looked like a text file mime type with zero recognizably. Even if you used it for a week, you would not be able to know which application is running just looking at the icon. Could be any editor or some word processor. With the current one, it is clear. And yes, I think that makes sense, that is a brand. And it is what most other applications do, too. I doubt my mother has…
All I can see at first glance is a blue circle with some not very well-defined shape on it and generic mobile-style shadow. When I zoom it up, I can appreciate that it's a somewhat abstract rendition of the cyber woodpecker, but after all this time (and I'm talking years, not a week) I'm still not seeing it at first glance when the icon is small. It's just a blue circle that, unlike Chromium's icon with its distinct dot in the middle, gets lost among other circles.
I think the issue I have with it isn't with the "logo" shape itself, but rather with how it's embedded into and composed within an icon. I think it could work well on something else than a plain circle. Maybe even just improving the shadow and adjusting color shades to make it more contrast-y could already help.
Re: Kate editor on all platforms
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
It got revived suddenly, there's going to be a new release soon.
Given the response here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481383 I'm unimpressed. This is to a bug that, according to their public communications, was fixed years ago. Except of course that it's still present. But other than that, it was fixed years ago.
I mean, it says quite clearly that no one has built an up-to-date version of Amarok for Windows since 2013, but the bug is fixed in the source code and has been for a long time. That no one has stepped up to package Amarok for Windows in that time isn't a bug.
Re: Kate editor on all platforms
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was that what they called KParts? Terminal, file browser, text editor, more, all easy to embed and build an application around?
Yes exactly! I forgot to mention dcop a message passing forerunner to dbus as well as arts the forerunner to pulsaudioe
dcop was better. easy to use and accessible for non developer.
I scripted so many dcop bash scripts. I never connected with dbus.