Version: CVS (using KDE Devel) Kate is a text editor. It should have the standard cut/copy/paste right click menu that every other text editor has. Move the plugin items to a sub menu. This is very annoying if you are primarily used to mouse based editing. I have all the plugins turned off. My right click menu contains these useless choices: Open with ---> I don' have a file name selected add to project --> it already is Switch header implementation --> don't know what that does toggle breakpoint --> easily accessed on icon column right click
I can confirm this to be a really bad behaviour. However from fixing some context-menu related bugs last week, i know that this stuff is yet a mess. And that it's not so easy to get access to that menu parts from katepart.
> toggle breakpoint --> easily accessed on icon column right click Unless the icon column isn't displayed...
To me this seems to be more of a wish than a bug... and is there any support missing from katepart for you to implement this? (as I triage these bug reports it's becoming more and more evident that kdevelop needs an "all editors" component which I can reassign to :)
same for me: this looks just like an problem that kdevelop installs some not that clever popup menu in the editorparts via the ktexteditor::popupmenu interface, kate part by itself does not create some default, the hosting app must install one, if kdevelop decides to install in all cases a very bloated one, that should be considered to be changed there ;)
The right click menu in QT editor is somewhat better in my opinion. It has cut/copy/paste on the top level right click. Then all of the other choices are a second level menu. A blend may be a more optimal choice, keep some of the frequently used kdevelop choices on the top menu, but make cut/copy/paste the first three choices. Then push the lesser used choices to a sub menu. Do this as an experiment, select a paragraph and right click. Note how messed up the menus get because watch is a top level choice. (we probably wouldn't even need watch on the right click menu if this bug got fixed http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60168) For someone who is used to intensively using the mouse for editing, the current menu structure sucks.
kdevelop needs to install a correct toplevel menu which means: it must contain cut/copy/paste/... and some sanely sorted submenus, this applies to all ktexteditor parts, qeditor atm only looks better because it does not do what the interfaces was thought for ;)
closing, because katepart has copy/paste/cut stuff in RMB inside kdevelop nowadays.