I often find myself manually starting a new kate instance to drag a text file into it because otherwise it would find the last used instance on another virtual desktop, switch to it and open the file in a new tab there.
That’s a bug in Kate.
Kate would need a similar fix as was tried for dolphin:
Feel free to report the bug to bugs.kde.org.
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aaah, right as I arrived here from the bug tracker considering this a mere quirk
filed the bug here
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