dhaumann added a comment.
As background: in KF5 world, the KTextEditor settings are shared among applications: enabling line numbers in Kate will enable line numbers in KDevelop, Kile, KWrite, ... Currently, there is no way to show line numbers except in Kile. I can understand that line numbers may indeed not be to useful. We have two paths forward here: 1. Reject the patch. 2. Accept the patch and Kile should try it out. Given we do not have evidence that line numbers on by default reflect any increase in usability, I would go for 1. for now. Except if there are better solutions. Personally, I dislike the idea of passing options in createView for a very simple reason: we have document variables, .kateconfig files, settings on the UI, the command line, the ConfigInterface. Adding yet another way to configure KTextEditor sounds like a bad idea. If at all, the only clear way is to let an application decide to not share settings with other KTextEditor applications. E.g. KTextEditor::Editor::setUseSharedConfig(bool share). REPOSITORY R39 KTextEditor REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D11838 To: ngraham, #kate, #ktexteditor, dhaumann, mludwig Cc: acrouthamel, brauch, mludwig, kfunk, dhaumann, #frameworks, michaelh, kevinapavew, ngraham, demsking, cullmann, sars
