[rkward-devel] [rkward-users] Call for testing: RKWard 0.5.3-pre1 / Release schedule

[Prasenjit Kapat]

HI,

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier
<thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 April 2010, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
>> BTW, is kate's 'Filesystem Browser' different then? This doesn't seem
>> to happen there. (Its 'tab bar' is completely different, a bit weired,
>> if I may.)
>
> Good point. The solution is that kate simply refuses to open the same file
> twice (and in RKWard we were trying to do the same, but there was a bug in
> that). So that hides the bug in kdelibs, and of course we can do the same
> thing (that simply did had not occurred to me, when I wrote this was hard to
> work around).

The work around works! Much saner now ;)

>> > Indeed. I see the problem, but don't know how to fix this, yet (other
>> > than to assign different shortcuts). BTW, the katepart is not to blame.
>> > It's the tab- bar that assigns shortcuts to the tabs, apparently without
>> > taking existing shortcuts into account.
>>
>> Hmm.. well... at least now the shortcuts are configurable.
>
> Ok, I found a way to work around that (and I submitted a patch to kdelibs), so
> this will not be an issue in the release.

I am sure the KDE folks appreciate this.

>> Someday someone may ask why the two different (Alt & Ctrl)  window
>> cycles? We'll have to come up with some answer, till then....
>
> Well, by then, I hope to have implemented an Alt+Tab-like window cycling. Once
> we have that, at least the Alt-type cycle should be pretty much obsolete (and
> possibly the Ctrl-type cycle as well).

Sounds like a good plan.

Regards,
-- 
Prasenjit