How can i make kate behaviour go back to normal?

[Waqar Ahmed]

> Not using a separate dialog isn't a viable solution for many KDE
applications. By making Kate differ from other applications you confront
the users with
different concepts which is against KDE's goal to present a common user
experience across all applications (unless there are good reasons to derive
from the common UX).

There are good reasons which I noted already. We do not need dialogs at all
when we can use our main view for something. Also we do not need to think
what size the dialog should be anymore. It just fits in the existing
window.

We diverge from kde experience in many ways where we think something else
is better or sometimes we just want to be more consistent with other
editors e.g code. E.g Ctrl + shift + f in Kate doesn't make the app full
screen and we use chord shortcuts which are rarely used by anyone else in
KDE. You also have to keep in mind that a lot of our users are not KDE or
even Linux users. So the kde consistency argument doesn't fully apply in
such scenarios.

Regards,
Waqar

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 4:17 PM Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:

> [Please reply inline instead of TOFU. It makes following an argument much
> easier and it makes it much easier to remove irrelevant context from a
> reply.]
>
> On Sonntag, 11. Dezember 2022 11:58:03 CET Waqar Ahmed wrote:
> > Can you explain why this is worse UX?
>
> Not using a separate dialog isn't a viable solution for many KDE
> applications.
> By making Kate differ from other applications you confront the users with
> different concepts which is against KDE's goal to present a common user
> experience across all applications (unless there are good reasons to
> derive
> from the common UX).
>
> > This is an improvement, as it allows you to change settings without
> > reopening the dialog every time.
>
> This could have been solved easily by making the settings dialog not-modal
> (like in Kleopatra and probably many other applications).
>
> > It also makes tweaking the theme and
> > editor settings a lot more pleasant which was just a crappy experience in
> > the past.
>
> I'm wondering what this has to do with the settings being presented in a
> dialog or embedded in the main window.
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
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