> I've been looking for a way to do this, and Darrell also
> mentioned
> that he was looking for a was to use the Multiple Document
> Interface
> with firefox.
> 
> I have written a patch that will enable you to only use a
> single kate
> window. It is controlled by a kate kconfig option and can be
> changed
> under kate's general settings tab.

Looks like the new option is placed in $TDEHOME/share/config/katerc [General] UseInstance=0/1?

I see the check box in your patch, but I haven't yet tried to build.

> Tim, Can we push this into the master? is this something we
> even want
> to have? I like it personally, I understand if other don't.
> Remember
> it is optional so it won't impact anything when disabled,
> and will be
> disabled by default.

With the check box I don't see a conflict. The default should be OFF because SDI is the current behavior. Only those who want an MDI would enable the check box.

Bug report 692 addresses this issue. Tim bumped the priority to Blocker, so I am guessing he will be interested in testing the patch. :)

> What do you think? Darrell with this satisfy what you were
> looking for?

We'll have to do some testing. Do you have any kind of test plan? For example, does the new option conflict with the --use parameter? Do users need to disable the --use parameter in all of their *.desktop parameters? I believe the default in all kate related *.desktop files do not have the --use parameter enabled, but I have that changed here because I want an MDI.

We should find people who prefer the SDI to test the patch. When they test with the check box enabled, they will have a different perspective than us MDI users.

I also need to test the patch with Firefox, as I mentioned in previous posts.

> This is using the 3.5.13 resources, prior to the rename.
> Some things
> might need to change (kde to tde stuff).

I can fix those. :)

Darrell