Bug 364656

Summary:	Adding 'Insert Unicode control character' to the context menu of the main edit box
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-ktexteditor	Reporter:	Safa Alfulaij <safa1996alfulaij>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.23.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://i.imgur.com/zw0sM0E.png
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Safa Alfulaij 2016-06-23 06:39:03 UTC

The 'Insert Unicode control character' menu would be really helpful for RTL-language users. It helps organizing mixed RTL and LTR text by adding controlling characters to specify direction of text and stuff.
This menu should come with Qt, but I think that the edit box (main edit box) doesn't use Qt's lineedit context menu.
And for Qt, there is a bug where this menu isn't available in Qt5 because of removal of "Qt tools". (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-50792)

The menu: http://i.imgur.com/zw0sM0E.png

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2019-05-19 15:02:03 UTC

Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last year and no contributor stepped up to implement it.

The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs.

Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users.
If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it.

If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind,
if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it,
it will expire in a year again.

We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it.

Patches can be handed in via https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann