How can i make kate behaviour go back to normal?

[Waqar Ahmed]

> It's funny how you argue that a modal dialog is bad

What's funny? And where did I say it's bad? You misunderstand things.

> completely overlay the main view with a settings view .

I suggest you go and explore how it works first.

But just for your info: you can open the settings in a split or a new
mainWindow for e.g. It just integrates a lot better. You can use the same
shortcuts that you use to switch tabs (alt-left/right) to switch between
views. We'll improve the integration even more moving forward.



On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 5:31 PM Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sonntag, 11. Dezember 2022 13:01:36 CET Waqar Ahmed wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's funny how you argue that a modal dialog is bad (which I fully agree
> to),
> but then completely overlay the main view with a settings view, which
> makes it
> impossible to see the effect of changes (e.g. changing a font) without
> switching to-and-fro between the settings view and the editor view.
>
> Even with the previous modal settings dialog I could immediately see the
> effect
> of the changes.
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>
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