I saw these same problems on two machines, both fresh installs of 15.10. One of them went back to 14.04 while the other is my test laptop and I am waiting to see if these problems will be resolved so I can switch to 15. There are many other problems with Kubuntu 15, but most of them I can live with while some of these, listed below, I can't.
I am interested to hear if these are known problems/features or am I just SOL. I couldn't find anything on the web.
I use Kate for programming, always have at least three separate Kate windows with multiple files open in each etc.
1. Well, this one is probably the worst. It happens only with Kate, other editors I tried don't do this, or don't provoke this kind of action from the system.
Steps:
- open a file in Kate
- open any other application and make that window "above the others". In my case that is usually the terminal, but this "works" with any application.
- change the file opened in Kate from outside (in my case, this file usually contains compiler output so it's changed from the terminal)
Result:
- not only does the Kate window go above others when the file is changed but it steals keyboard focus. While the window does go above others, it is not marked as such.
- the Kate window spreads from one to all virtual desktops, and is above others and with keyboard focus stolen on all of them.
This completely destroys any routine as you can't work while e.g. compiling because any change in the compiling output will steal keyboard focus from whatever you are doing and put it on that one Kate window. On all virtual desktops. I have a relatively large code and sometimes it takes the compiler 10 minutes to finish, and I have to wait until it's over. Not helpful at all.
2. Can't rearrange tabs
As I said, I work with at least three Kate windows at the same time, each with several files open. I always rearrange the tabs so I know which files are where, but under this newest Kate version, this is not possible. If I want to open a new file and make it sit in the left-most tab, I have to close all others first and then open them one by one in specific order to achieve what I want.
3. Code folding
Completely useless now. When I open a file, it looks like mess and it takes several minutes to unfold a file of 1000 lines because Kate folds two parts of two separate blocks into one pile and then you can imagine what happens with the rest. It's all mangled. I have to unfold that mess first, one fold by one, until everything is unfolded, and then fold them by back one by one. This worked (almost) perfectly before Kubuntu 15.
4. Tabs hard to visually separate
Very poorly implemented "flat" appearance of tabs. It's hard to see which one is active, plus they are spread over the whole width of the window, which is a terrible idea (maybe it looks better - maybe - but it certainly makes work with Kate harder.
5. Some plugins are missing
I think, I didn't compare the lists in versions before and after Plasma 5 to be absolutely sure, but I remember that some convenient little things were not there any more.
Anyone experienced these problems, especially first three as they most important to me?
Sorry for the long-winded post, and thanks in advance.
I am interested to hear if these are known problems/features or am I just SOL. I couldn't find anything on the web.
I use Kate for programming, always have at least three separate Kate windows with multiple files open in each etc.
1. Well, this one is probably the worst. It happens only with Kate, other editors I tried don't do this, or don't provoke this kind of action from the system.
Steps:
- open a file in Kate
- open any other application and make that window "above the others". In my case that is usually the terminal, but this "works" with any application.
- change the file opened in Kate from outside (in my case, this file usually contains compiler output so it's changed from the terminal)
Result:
- not only does the Kate window go above others when the file is changed but it steals keyboard focus. While the window does go above others, it is not marked as such.
- the Kate window spreads from one to all virtual desktops, and is above others and with keyboard focus stolen on all of them.
This completely destroys any routine as you can't work while e.g. compiling because any change in the compiling output will steal keyboard focus from whatever you are doing and put it on that one Kate window. On all virtual desktops. I have a relatively large code and sometimes it takes the compiler 10 minutes to finish, and I have to wait until it's over. Not helpful at all.
2. Can't rearrange tabs
As I said, I work with at least three Kate windows at the same time, each with several files open. I always rearrange the tabs so I know which files are where, but under this newest Kate version, this is not possible. If I want to open a new file and make it sit in the left-most tab, I have to close all others first and then open them one by one in specific order to achieve what I want.
3. Code folding
Completely useless now. When I open a file, it looks like mess and it takes several minutes to unfold a file of 1000 lines because Kate folds two parts of two separate blocks into one pile and then you can imagine what happens with the rest. It's all mangled. I have to unfold that mess first, one fold by one, until everything is unfolded, and then fold them by back one by one. This worked (almost) perfectly before Kubuntu 15.
4. Tabs hard to visually separate
Very poorly implemented "flat" appearance of tabs. It's hard to see which one is active, plus they are spread over the whole width of the window, which is a terrible idea (maybe it looks better - maybe - but it certainly makes work with Kate harder.
5. Some plugins are missing
I think, I didn't compare the lists in versions before and after Plasma 5 to be absolutely sure, but I remember that some convenient little things were not there any more.
Anyone experienced these problems, especially first three as they most important to me?
Sorry for the long-winded post, and thanks in advance.