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Configure kate with plasma-manager

Open Asqiir opened this issue 11 months ago • 12 comments

A while ago, I started configuring kate with plasma-manager. I think it is worthwile to put my results into this project in the form of a handful new mid-level configurations.

Kate is the text editor from the KDE project and as such, its config files work in the same way as most KDE config files. This specifically implies "these are stateful config files and as such belong into the users home-environment". That is why I believe this project to be the right place for the effort.

I want to implement mid-level (high-level?) options for the following behaviour. What do you think?

  • [x] indentation (tabs, spaces, how wide?)
  • [ ] line breaks (forced/none, at what width, \n vs \r\n)
  • [x] The editor theme. How should the configuration react when a theme with the same filename already exist (thus, an existing file could be destroyed) or a theme with the same name (a field within the file) already exists (thus, undefined behaviour in kate could occur)?)
  • [ ] Which menus and tools to show by default, which key shortcuts to focus/unfocus/show/hide.
  • [ ] Font type, size, line-height, ... The main open question here would be: should the configuration fail if the selected font cannot be found?

Asqiir avatar Mar 18 '24 11:03 Asqiir