[Breeze] [Bug 488784] New: icon request: show whitespaces / show all characters

[Gary Wang]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488784

            Bug ID: 488784
           Summary: icon request: show whitespaces / show all characters
    Classification: Plasma
           Product: Breeze
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Other
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Icons
          Assignee: visual-design at kde.org
          Reporter: wzc782970009 at gmail.com
                CC: kainz.a at gmail.com, m at nueljl.in
  Target Milestone: ---

I'm a user of Notepad++-style editor, which provides a lot of common-used
features in their toolbar and makes the toolbar icon-only. One of the features
is "Show all characters" which allows user see all characters which are usually
hard to distinguish or invisible, like Tab and Space, CR LF and LF.

I'd like to contribute such a feature to Kate so I can use it the same way, so
icons for such action are needed. The icons I think we might need are:

1. Show whitespaces
2. Show non-printable spaces
3. Show all characters

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

If you would like to try out the "Show all characters" feature but don't want
to install Windows or use Wine, you can try other Notepad++-clones like the
following ones, which I confirmed have such feature:

- Notepadqq: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/notepadqq/
- NotepadNext: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.dail8859.NotepadNext
- Notepad--: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/notepad---git
- Textosaurus: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.martinrotter.textosaurus

About the feature itself, I currently have a MR to add the "Show whitespaces"
action to KTextEditor, see:

- https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/merge_requests/698

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