https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485010
Bug ID: 485010
Summary: Rename or remove Session settings panel in KWrite
Classification: Applications
Product: kate
Version: 24.02.1
Platform: openSUSE
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: kwrite
Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: groszdaniel...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 168125
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=168125&action=edit
Screenshot of the Session panel
KWrite doesn't have sessions, so it might be confusing that the Configure
dialog has a Session panel. This is a suggestion to at least rename it. Also,
some options seem to be irrelevant in KWrite, so perhaps remove the Session
panel and move the options that are still relevant to Open/Save.
"Close documents with the window they belong to": Note that even in Kate, this
is only applied if a file has no modifications. As far as I can tell, KWrite
doesn't have a (user-observable) concept of a set of open documents as
different from whichever files are opened in a tab in a window, for files that
aren't modified, so there is no difference between internally closing a file
when the only window in which it is open is closed, and not internally closing
it. This option should always be treated as enabled in KWrite, and the checkbox
should be removed.
(When a file does have modifications, both Kate and KWrite internally keep it
open if there are multiple windows created with File/New Window, and you close
the only window the file is opened in. In KWrite, the only signs that the file
is kept open are that if you close the remaining windows, it asks you if you
want to save it, and that if you open the file anew, the modifications are
there. It would be more natural to ask the user whether to save the file as
soon as the window the file belongs to is closed if the "Close documents with
the window they belong to" option is enabled, in both KWrite and Kate.)
"Maximum number of entries in recent file list": This is definitely relevant in
KWrite too.
"Keep meta-information past sessions": relevant in KWrite too (to remember
bookmarks, perhaps some other things as well), but the name is rather cryptic.
I'm not sure there is a point in the option to disable it, though.
"Show welcome view for new windows" (disabled by default in KWrite), "Close the
application entirely when the last file is closed" (enabled by default): they
technically make sense in KWrite too, but I'm not sure there is much need for
them in a relatively minimalistic editor.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240329
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.3
Kernel Version: 6.8.1-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
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