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