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.

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