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