Bug 458539

Summary:	Add action to open a new empty window
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	popov895 <popov895>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph, popov895
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	22.08.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description popov895 2022-08-31 09:23:20 UTC

SUMMARY

Currently there's only an action to open a "new synchronized window" but no action to open a new empty window.. To do this, I have to launch a new instance of the application from Kickoff (or any other way), which is quite inconvenient. There's also an unused `Ctrl+Shift+N` shortcut that can be bound to this action.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220829
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5
Graphics Platform: X11

Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2022-09-03 14:50:07 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/871

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2022-09-23 20:45:25 UTC

We have that now, at least in large parts.

The tabs are no longer synchronized, you get a welcome page (or if set in the config, a new untitled document).

The plugins still show e.g. the documents of all main windows, but that can be improved later, if patches are there.

Is this good enough?

Comment 3 popov895 2022-09-23 21:24:32 UTC

Sure.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2022-09-23 21:31:55 UTC

Ok, then let's marked this as fixed ATM.
I think for the most uses cases, "New Window" does now behave as wanted.
Thanks for the idea, the old behavior was really not that usable.
At lot more important to have this right now that the code is shared with KWrite.
There no plugins are loaded at all and it behaves already now not that bad.