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  • Oh, good question, how to make Kate work well under GNOME. I have to admit, I use it under KDE, so never really dealt with the theming. But I believe, “Tokyo Night” is only the editor theme. Can you select a different Window Color scheme in the menubar under Settings?

    what’s the difference between what looks like three different folder tree buttons (Document seems to only show one file, and then Project and File Browser plugin both show the full tree of the folder you have opened)?

    • “Documents” only shows your currently open tabs. To be honest, I never quite figured out what it’s good for, but I think it makes more sense, if you use Kate for authoring texts or such. I normally disable it in the settings, under Plugins → Documents Tree.
    • “Filesystem” is kind of like a mini-file-manager. You can navigate to any directory you want in there, or have it always show the current folder of the document you have currently open. But it isn’t aware of what a repository is, so depending on how you open Kate, it may not show the right folder and jumping to the current document’s folder will put you into a sub-directory of your repository. As I said above, I also mostly keep that one disabled these days, although I can see it being useful.
    • “Projects” is aware of Git. It always shows the current repository folder, if you are in one, expanding the file tree from there. It hides files listed in .gitignore. And yeah, in my opinion just what you want to use for programming.

    And is there an equivalent for the “Code Runner” plugin? If not, I guess I could always just run “python filename.py”, but a play/run button would be nice.

    There is a plugin called “Build & Run”, which you can enable and which might do what you’re looking for. I typically prefer running from the terminal, so I can’t say too much about it…


  • It does have some quirks. I feel like there’s one workflow that works really well, which is the workflow of the single core maintainer, and whenever you deviate from that, then yeah, features may be missing that you’d expect or things just don’t work as smoothly.

    But it has gotten some cool upgrades in recent years, like LSP support has basically transformed it into a mini-IDE and when you press Ctrl+Alt+i, you get a text search across all menu entries.
    There’s probably more things that I’m forgetting, but the quirkiness also got reduced quite a bit. Like, I would always use the File System Browser plugin, because it was the only one that worked well enough for what I wanted, and I just dealt with manually navigating into each project directory. Nowadays, I prefer the Project plugin, because that now works smoothly enough for that same purpose.
    It’s still a bit weird that I can’t drag-and-drop files from Project plugin’s file tree, but I just click “Open Containing Folder” in the context menu and then do it in my file manager, so it isn’t a huge deal…




  • I’m neither Scottish nor ultra-deeply embedded into the trans community, so I doubt I would’ve heard of politician statements or the like. But yeah, I do think I would’ve heard of it, if the ruling got repealed, and I did not hear of that, unfortunately.

    I guess, the main aftermath is that it got reported pretty much globally, because it is clever and there are boobs involved, so even clickbait newspapers can print that. Well, and hopefully it got people talking and reevaluating their preconceptions.





  • Growth=good is also a sentiment for whole markets.

    In a market where new customers start buying the products every day (growth market), e.g. the smartphone market 20 years ago, you can generally just come up with new products and someone will buy them, if they’re good.

    On the other hand, in a market where customers only replace their old products as needed (market saturation), e.g. basically the smartphone market of today, things are much more tight for companies. They have to primarily be more cost-efficient than their competitors in order to survive.


  • Had stinky feet throughout my whole adulthood. Always wore padded shoes with a fake leather cover, like every shoe shop throws at you with promises of them being breathable.

    Then recently bought shoes with canvas for the cover material and they single-handedly solved the problem. My feet are not always hot anymore, because I am just wearing two pieces of cloth over them (canvas+socks) rather than thick padding. And they are actually breathable, too, allowing sweat to dissipate pretty quickly.

    And if I do sweat more in the summer and they start to smell, I can chuck them into the washing machine¹ to undo that entirely.

    At the risk of wholly explaining what a cloth is, I guess, I should also mention that moisture does not just go out of the shoes more easily, but obviously also into them. So, they’re not as great of a choice for rainy days. But yeah, that tradeoff is definitely worth it for me.

    ¹) The shoes I got actually recommend putting them into the washing machine. Might not be a good idea with other canvas shoes.