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Dear Hal.<BR>
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You probably have not got any replies because I have no idea what you are trying to achieve and what you are doing with Kate.<BR>
With respect to reporting bugs the moment you start be saying you deleted or edited a config file - you will get in immediate close invalid.<BR>
If you report a bug, just outline the steps you use via the GUI and ONLY edit a config file or supply it at the request of KDE.<BR>
The moment you cease to become the user and NOT use the GUI as it is intended KDE will not talk to you ever.<BR>
I would suggest that you frame your question something like this.<BR>
Remember with bug reports you are reporting errors on the application as it appears as a GUI and you a user, if you start reporting bugs<BR>
saying you are altering config files you will get no where fast.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
In respect to you issue with KATE please try something like the following but more elaborate<BR>
<BR>
My task is to perform ???????????? and XXXXXXXXXXXX<BR>
I a using kate in order to ??????<BR>
The problem with kate in its original form is ????????????<BR>
So I have deleted the ??????????????<BR>
Which has caused ???????????????<BR>
Only trouble is ??????????? <BR>
<BR>
Any ideas how I can stop ?????????????? happening so I can use Kate in this way.<BR>
<BR>
If you do not get a response after framing the problem you are going to need a more upmarket mailing list.<BR>
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Kind Regards and G'Day from OZ Scott<BR>
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On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 13:58 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm still having trouble with Kate toolbars, but now I can predict </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">what's going on, and it seems like there's a problem with a pointer </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">somewhere, so this may help. I don't program in C or C++ and I'm self </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">taught. I've had problems filing bug reports before on open source </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">projects, so I don't want to file a bug report until I feel like I have </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">enough to give a good description and someone here can tell me if I'm </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">providing useful information. (In the past, in OpenOffice and a few </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">other programs, I've filed bug, tried to give a good description, and </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">was criticized by in the response. It's happened a couple times, with </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">comments being for different reasons, but it's led me to think that </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">developers tend to want an excuse to close the bug more than a reason </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to fix it, and if that means blaming the messenger, do it that way.)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm using Kate and KDE 3.5.2 in Kubuntu Dapper Drake (I think that's </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Kubuntu 5.04). I may be upgrading soon to Edgy Eft, but I don't like </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">upgrading until a release has been out for a while so the initial bugs </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">are fixed.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Here's the problem:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Originally when I used edited toolbars that were set to give me what I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">wanted, the toolbars would be different for each text file. I went </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">through .kde/share/apps and killed all the Kate config files and also </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">in .kde/share/config and did the same thing. That way I started Kate </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">with no config at all. For a while it worked. The toolbars remained </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">constant. Then I added the Reload icon to the Kate Part view tool bar </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and trouble started. All files got the same new toolbar, which was </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">what I wanted. However, when I switched from one file to another, I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">noticed the toolbar changed. I finally was able to track down what was </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">happening. The Kate Main toolbar is on the left, followed by the Kate </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Part toolbar. The Part toolbar starts moving one icon to the left each </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">time I change a file, until the Main toolbar is gone. While this is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">happening the Main toolbar icons will show up at the right end of the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">icons, but not in order. As I keep switching files, all the Part </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">toolbar icons will "slide" off the left until all I'm left with are the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">original Main toolbar icons, in their original order.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It seems to me there is a problem with tracking a pointer. Again, I'm </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">not a C programmer, but I do use Java and Perl. My guess is that a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">pointer for the icons is using 1 or 0 for the start of the icon list </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">when it should be using the other (i.e. using 1 instead of 0 or using 0 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">instead of 1), but that's just a guess.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There are some bugs that look close to this, but I'm not sure if it's </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the same one, and this could be fixed in the next version above 3.5.2 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(is there one without going to KDE 4 beta?).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If anyone has ideas how I can fix this irritation (and it is a big one </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">for me and the way I work), it would be appreciated. I'd rather wait a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">few more weeks before upgrading to Edgy Eft.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks for any feedback or suggestions in filing bug reports on this.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hal</FONT>
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