On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote: >> > Any ideas how to fix this? > >> Seconded. >> >> In general, Can I force kate to ONLY use one window? >> >> we need a way to always to it :-) > > I presume you can duplicate the problem? > > There also is the problem of Kate not correctly grabbing focus (bug report 692). > > To me Kate has been broken since moving away from a multiple document interface (MDI) to a single document interface (SDI). I don't know how much work is needed to revert to the older code or whether there is sufficient interest among users to motivate us to investigate. > > The MDI to SDI change occurred after 3.4.3. That means 3.5.0 introduced the confounded Kate sessions and the SDI. > > I have all of the 3.4.3 code. Reverting back also would mean restoring the simpler and more effective Projects rather than sessions. > > Is anybody interested? > > Darrell > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... > Read list messsages on the Web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > I am using Firefox 2.5.24 with Trinity 3.5.12 and Kate will not work at all if I set the editor in the Web Extensions addon using it's options. I either got an error message saying it will not start or nothing happened if I only used the full path: /opt/kde3/bin/kate. So, I typed about:config in the address bar and when it's window came up I typed editor in the search bar. This brought up several options and I changed these options to this configuration: View_source.editor.args user set string -u View_source.editor.external user set boolean true View_source.editor.path user set string /opt/kde3/bin/kate After doing that Firefox and Kate worked exactly like you want. I personally don't want to have the web page appear in a kate instance that I am already working in, so after testing I removed the -u I was like you orginally, in that I did not like sessions either. Mostly what I did not like was that you had to start out using a session--even if it was only a blank default session--and it always asked you what session you wanted on startup. I didn't want a session, I didn't want to be asked about one, I wanted a blank kate window. Then later, if I wanted to make it a session--I would save it as such. After a lot of hammering, screaming and kicking I got it to work the way I wanted. Now that sessions work "my way" I use sessions heavily and like them a lot. So please don't make them go away... Keith