However I feel like not everyone has invent account, so maybe it’s easier to juggle around some ideas here as well.
Here’s some of my personal wishes:
Make it clear the debug plugin can be used more than just GDB since it has DAP support (I will work on this at some point unless someone else is faster Basically need to do some renaming)
Streamline the session management (These are just my opinions on the matter, do tell me if I am wrong :V )
Sessions shouldn’t IMO handle plugin settings at all.
Plugin settings should be tied to the project the plugin is opened in, using .kateproject files.
Ideally, in my opinion, the flow is like this: Session holds multiple projects, projects hold plugin settings per project.
Some items like diagnostics etc. are a bit “all over the place” like build plugin has it’s own build diagnostics. I’m currently working on streamlining this since diagnostics panel has now nice filtering.
General streamlining of features (Please report more of these)
.kateproject files should be more upfront and there should be a tool to generate a kateproject template file, like VSCode has for some of it’s settings, like debugging tools.
Very big and difficult goal: Plugin creation without needing for C++ and building.
I know a couple of people who would be interested in making plugins for Kate but they really do not like writing C++.
Feel free to share your ideas here or the issue I linked above!
I agree about the .kateproject. I don’t see how one is suppose to use them at all without previous knowledge.
About personal wishes, I think the filesystem browser need some improvements. It is what trigger me the most as I tend to alt+tab to dolphin from time to time instead of staying in Kate.
I don’t know if I am using it wrong, but all I see each time is :
I didn’t find any options to resize or manage columns, so I have to either have the panel take half the screen or guess the filenames.
It may also be a setting, but it don’t act well with tree view. Each time I click on a file, it open the view on the folder. So in a situation like this :
.
├── include
│ └── hello.h
└── src
└── hello.c
Instead of clicking one the .c, then the .h, I have to click on the .c, change the folder, then click on the .h. It defeat the purpose of having a tree view.
I was thinking of adding a settings tab for the project plugin that can be used to generate/modify .kateproject file. If .kateproject exists it parses all the data from it and then you can modify it.
It would also show the file in it’s json form so one could modify just from that.
Kate Editor. There is one option I would like to see and that is ‘Column mode’. I have an old editor from another company that I use for working with text documents for my applications. Many times I have the need to create columns of miscellaneous information. How about a hot key such as ALT+C to turn column mode on or off? Great editor, Kate. I am playing with it now learning how to navigate it’s resources. Thank you.
I make a wish for kate, files open on wayland like on x11
In my case, when I open files with Kate on different virtual desktops, Wayland groups all the Kate windows into a single akte instance. Therefore, when I open another file, it is grouped with the existing instance of Kate instead of creating a new separate kate instance on another virtual desktop.
Predictive markdown support? Like when writing dotted lists and pressing Enter, that the - already appears.
Also LSP servers that actually work? I always get some errors on Fedora but I found no way to get Bash, fish or python suggestions.
Also, preset code blocks with a few clicks?
More plugins by users! Poorly no idea how to do that, but I would like to learn typst and Kate is simply the best editor. Vscodium has a user plugin already
Predictive markdown support? Like when writing dotted lists and pressing Enter, that the - already appears.
Also, preset code blocks with a few clicks?
Kate has snippets plugin that can be scripted to do whatever you wish, so that might work for you The scripts use javascript if i remember correctly.
Also LSP servers that actually work? I always get some errors on Fedora but I found no way to get Bash, fish or python suggestions.
This is out of our hands, you could ask Fedora for help on this. When I used Fedora, I symlinked all my LSP stuff to ~/.local/bin (if I downloaded it from github for example) and then set it to the session variable with the help of this: Session Environment Variables - KDE UserBase Wiki
This way Kate could read the LSP binaries/links from ~/.local/bin without any extra steps.
More plugins by users! Poorly no idea how to do that, but I would like to learn typst and Kate is simply the best editor. Vscodium has a user plugin already
Basically need to do some renaming)
