Kate & bidi

[Hamish Rodda]

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On Sunday 20 April 2003 01:33, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > Seems like it might be possible, somewhere, sometime down the road to
> > clobber all 3 text editors
> > just enough to get the unified feature set of all of them into one
> > great text editor.  I remember bidi being a problem
> > in Kate way back when I first got my KDE commit bit.    If we haven't
> > found an easy solution yet it may be that
> > the design of Kate is just such that it may have hit a wall in terms of
> > design.  No offense intended to anyone
> > involved with Kate... its a killer application in my book :).  Its just
> > that I want to see it be the only editor KDE users need to have.
> >
> > Its pretty clear until something like that happens that KEdit must stay
> > for bidi functionality.  We can't alienate that
> > group of people who may use KDE who need it.
>
> The greatest problem with kate & bidi: Nobody in the kate team really had
> the time to dive into the bidi docs and come up with an implementation in
> the last years ;/ Hamish has read a bit over it some weeks ago I think, and
> he has allready done great work to make the kate rendering stuff much more
> generic (about further infos, have crossposted to kwrite-devel and hamish,
> perhaps has missed some important mailtraffic in the last weeks).
> If we would find some volunteer with deeper bidi knowledge integration into
> kate part should not be an unsolvable problem, perhaps I should look again
> at the qt parts lars pointed me too last year.

I have invested some time in figuring out how to get Kate to do bidi... it's 
not going to be that hard in the end, but just deciding which way to go at 
the implementation level will be the key, including which bits to use qt for 
and which bits to re-implement ourselves.  I have a feeling that the easiest 
implementation (using qt functions) will not be the fastest :(

The other problem, as always, is just the time to sit down and do it ;)

Cheers,
Hamish.
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