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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
Kate isn't as lightweight as it used to be, though. Kate 5.16.x uses 26-27 MB with no files open on my system, while good ol' Kate 2.5.14 (now part of TDE) uses just 15 MB with no files open on my system.
And yes, I know 26-27 MB is not much at all, esp. with my 8 GB of RAM, but they still managed to somehow make it use 10 MB more under KDE 5 compared to the old version on TDE.. For a web browser, I wouldn't even have bothered to comment but for a text editor, I consider that quite a lot.
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Originally posted by cl333r View Post
No, it happens to weird people and admins who can't get their shit together.Last edited by dnebdal; 10 September 2019, 05:52 PM.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostEh... KATE is only lightweight if you're already using KDE. But also, KATE isn't that simple (for a text editor). In fact, it seems to have more built-in features than almost anything else I've used. It's already a pretty good platform, so, I don't really see the problem in giving it a few additions here and there to make it more "universal". So, it's not going to be half-baked, because it's already been past that point before they even mentioned this goal.
Eventually Gedit based on GTK3 came out and I was all WTF is this crap. I tried to use it. I just couldn't. Went and started installing a bunch of different text editors, stuff I'd normally never use due to "why TF do I need all these dependencies" and ended up liking Kate out of all of them. A couple of weeks later I was looking at the different sessions available in the login menu and thought I'd give that Plasma thingy a shot. I was really leery because my first KDE experience was KDE4 and I just did not like it at all. Plasma, OTOH, just clicked with me and I've been a Plasma user ever since. Thanks, Kate.
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Originally posted by Termy View Post
it is, but you get a KDEsu-Dialogue when you want to save a system file, so the only instance where this is an issue can be 600/700 rights.
Be aware that either Kate or sudoedit acts up if Kate is already open and the sudoedit file opens in a new tab. Any changes made to the file won't be saved. Close Kate, let sudoedit open Kate with only the sudoedit file active and everything works as expected.
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Always been a huge fan of the Kate editor. Have done all my class assignments be it C, C++, or shell scripting in Kate. Love that you get the handy shell in the bottom for running gcc or bash to compile/run the program. In my opinion Kate doesn't need to do anything to compete with an electron editor, it is already the superior product that I use several days a week.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View PostI was really leery because my first KDE experience was KDE4 and I just did not like it at all. Plasma, OTOH, just clicked with me and I've been a Plasma user ever since. Thanks, Kate.
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Originally posted by dnebdal View Post
Oh get over yourself. Multi-GB text files are a common enough feature of scientific work - I work at a cancer genetics lab, and stupid-huge csv files are entirely routine. Of course, opening them in a GUI editor is less common (I'd typically use R), but it's not exactly exotic either.
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Originally posted by ssokolow View Post
Technically, your first KDE4 experience was also Plasma. They just stopped calling the session KDE with KDE 5 as part of their efforts to rearchitect and re-market the components as less of a monolithic "all or none" whole.
In retrospect, the reasons I didn't care for it back then was simply being a new Linux user and it was a lot of new information to take in (both Linux and KDE) so I found it to be a bit difficult to use combined with a lot of stuff starting with the letter K which made (and still makes) names hard to read due to dyslexia issues. The K stuff isn't as bad these days, and I don't know if this is Plasma being laid out cleanly or me having more general Linux knowledge, it just seems a lot more easier to use these days than what I vaguely remember.
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