[kde-doc-english] Doc for Kate: File Templates plugin

Burkhard Lück lueck at hube-lueck.de
Mon Jul 19 21:14:46 CEST 2010


Am Sonntag, 27. Juni 2010, um 23:56:02 schrieb Kevin Safford:
> Hello
> 
> I've some suggestions to improve the doc for this page - see attached
> kate.odt file. (This is a copy of the existing doc, with my changes
> shown.)
> 
> Basically, tell users that this plugin is not enabled in a default
> installation of Kate, and describe how to enable it.
> 
> Background: I'm pretty new to Gnu/Linux (<2 years). I currently use
> Gnome (Ubuntu Jaunty and Lucid), and have been looking for a decent text
> editor for Perl and Bash scripts. Kate looks perfect, but it took me a
> long while to work out how to enable templates. The two main
> difficulties were:
> 
> 1. The doc doesn't make it clear that you need to enable the plugin.
> 2. Talk of the template folder being part of the 'KDE file system' made
> me think that maybe this function was not included under an installation
> under Gnome. Dumb, I know, but that's users for you!
> 
> I hope this is helpful. My day job is writing doc for middleware, so I
> won't be upset if I don't hear from you, or you write back and rip my
> suggestions to shreds!
> 
> All the best - and thanks for Kate.

It is in trunk now and will be backported to 4.5.1.
Many thanks.

-- 
Burkhard Lück



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