Agreed. My biggest gripe with Kate is its incapacity to redefine the set of shortcuts easily to conform to platform standards. And its internal fixed length line buffer that often gets me a warning about lines being cut off.
R On 22 Nov 2014, at 23:39, Andrew Udvare <audv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2014-11-22, at 07:50, John Layt <jl...@kde.org> wrote: >> I really can't emphasise enough how good an idea this is. As someone >> who spends a lot of time on Windows and Mac machines I know how poor >> the alternative text editors are and how much I miss Kate when I can't >> install it. We could win many Win/Mac developers as users if we had an >> easy to deploy package on both platforms, and it would be a good >> 'gateway drug' to them making use of KF5 in their own code. Having a >> small targeted goal like deploying Kate would be also give the Win and >> Mac teams clear achievable goals to work towards in getting KF5 ready >> with active feedback from the Kate community. > > I agree on both points. Both Mac and Windows lack a simple installer, and in > reality sometimes all I want on OS X is Kate (a proper KDevelop would be nice > too). > > I use Kate on OS X almost daily building out of MacPorts. Most issues seem to > be related to OS integration and retina (high DPI) support. Isn't this a > thing with KDE on other platforms as a whole? This would not only fix Mac, > but it would also fix how KDE functions on a high DPI screen (on other > platforms besides OS X). > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > kde-...@kde.org > List Information: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-mac > KDE/Mac Information: http://community.kde.org/Mac _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
