https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465007
Bug ID: 465007
Summary: Revert kwrite to be a single document program again
Classification: Applications
Product: kate
Version: 22.12.1
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: kwrite
Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: j...@ristioja.ee
Target Milestone: ---
Please revert kwrite to be a single document program again, or add a feature to
configure this.
The switch to MDI in kwrite has turned out to be most problematic for these two
moves in my regular workflows:
1) The default keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N changed behavior and no longer means
"new window", but instead opens a new tab. This is very confusing. It can
probably be worked around by changing the shortcuts, but it was nevertheless
not a pleasant surprise. Ctrl+N has always been more of a "new window" shortcut
for me, probably also because of familiarity with web browsers where Ctrl+T is
usually for opening a new tab and Ctrl+N is for opening a new window. I also
know that Konsole/Yakuake have Ctrl+Shift+T as the shortcut (the extra Shift
modifier is probably needed so that regular Ctrl+Letter shortcuts can be passed
to the terminal). Can these defaults please be changed with Ctrl+N reverted to
its old semantics?
2) When I have a single document open, and I try to close kwrite, the "Save
documents" dialog no longer works as before. Having been a kwrite user for a
long time, I've always used the keyboard sequence of Alt+F4 to close kwrite,
Tab to focus the "Discard" button and Space/Enter/Return to activate the
choice, so this has been in my muscle memory. This no longer works in the new
dialog. The new dialog is also needlessly complex if I only use kwrite for
single documents and it took me a long time to actually understand all its
features. So the first 30 times or so when I needed to quickly close kwrite, I
greatly struggled to figure out the dialog, the action required and to actually
perform the needed interaction. I eventually resolved to using the mouse
(instead of my keyboard) to click the right button. This takes a lot of
precious seconds. While writing this bug report I discovered, I can use
Shift+Tab instead of just Tab (which I'm used to), so this will also take a lot
of additional time getting used to. Would it please be possible to reinstate
the old "Save document" dialog in case only one document is open?
I apologize in case this sounds like a rant. I'm actually very grateful and
much all your work, but I just really miss the old behavior. I believe the
above two issues can probably be solved in the context of MDI as well, so I'm
considering filing the above these in separate issue reports. But before I do I
must really ask this one question: can I have my old n̶o̶t̶e̶p̶a̶d̶ kwrite back
again?
:-)
KDE already has Kate for MDI, so from a UI perspective: what was the rationale
behind making kwrite MDI as well?
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