> 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