> 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