https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414362
--- Comment #15 from nfx...@gmail.com --- (In reply to Waqar Ahmed from comment #14) > > I can only say that I do prefer the clunky old dialog over the new UI, both > > in terms of functionality and usability. > > *You* do, but not everyone. *You* like the new UI, but not everyone, but whatever. > > I just tested a newer version of kate (22.08.2) > > There is no such version, but whatever. Actually 21.08.2, but whatever. > > and changed opened files externally under various circumstances. I didn't > > encounter the new UI, which is weird. Instead it showed the old file > > modification dialog in some situations, while it strangely just hard > > reloaded automatically in other situations. Does that mean you returned to > > the old dialog? > > Idk what the dialog you are seeing. Perhaps you have the setting "Use a > dialog for externally modified files on". Probably? But I didn't get the new UI even when I switched that off. Maybe the new UI was removed? You don't seem to know your software, but whatever. > > I also remember trying to fix some file modification bugs. I found some > > problems (including race conditions), which eventually just made me disable > > the code that tries to filter "false positive" modification notifications. > > Noisier, but removed some even more annoying bugs that sometimes happened. > > Yep sure, though there was never a PR so whatever theoretical improvements > you made benefited no one or improved kate but what does that matter, eh?, > but whatever. Thanks for the encouragement, but whatever. I actually reported this as #388186. As I said, my patch would be unacceptable. Fixing the problem correctly would have required major changes. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
