How to see that a file is modified?

[Erik Rull]

Hi,

thanks! Which kubuntu LTS version do I need to get the fix?
Or which package do I need to manually update?

Best regards,

Erik


René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday September 18 2019 20:49:09 Erik Rull wrote:
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>> I'm using kdevelop 5.2.1 on kubuntu 18.04.
>> I'm happy so far beside one real big tradeoff compared to earlier versions: I
>> don't see anywhere that a file got modified and needs to be saved! In older
> 
> This got fixed recently; your version is quite old by now. However, you should always be seeing an icon in the document's tab, to the left of the filename.
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>> Same issue with kate on the same system.
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> There was a known issue with KDevelop,in code that has nothing to do with Kate. I'm not aware of a single comparable bug in Kate.
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> What widget style are you using? For some reason the rendering of the document-modified state in the titlebar can be turned off by the widget style, but that only makes sense for styles that also provide a window manager theme (which can then use something fancier than an asterisk in the window title to indicate that a document has been modified).
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