Bug 77867

Summary:	Toplevel mode only keeps track of last file opened
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Chris Flesner <chrisflesner>
Component:	kmdi	Assignee:	Matt Rogers <mattr>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	3.0.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Chris Flesner 2004-03-17 20:24:50 UTC

Version:           3.0.x (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.3.3 
OS:          Linux

When in toplevel mode, I can only do things with the last file opened.

I can switch between the open files with the tabs, but it still registers the last opened file as the one that's in use.  So I cannot copy/paste/save/reformat source, etc. with anything but the last file I opened (which means it's impossible to cut/paste between files).

And if I close the last opened file, it just acts as if I have none opened (no file listed in title bar, and most menu options greyed out).

Luckily, the "Save All" option will still save the other open files, but that is the only menu option that seems to do anything with them.

Comment 1 Jens Dagerbo 2004-03-17 20:30:37 UTC

Toplevel has been broken for about a year now.. should we perhaps disable it?

Comment 2 Chris Flesner 2004-03-17 21:25:54 UTC

I don't know if it should be disabled (because it's a
really cool concept), but I think it would be nice if
there was some warning given when selecting (even as
simple as the word "Broken" next to the option).  I
lost some work due to it not saving the correct file
when selecting save, and even then I didn't realize
what the problem was (it wasn't until I tried copying
and pasting between windows that I realized what was
happening), so a warning would've definately helped in
my case.

Other than that problem I'm loving the program, so
I'll just use Childframe mode for the time being.

--- Jens Dagerbo <jens.dagerbo@swipnet.se> wrote:
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>            What    |Removed                    
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>           Component|general                     |UI:
> toplevel window
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> ------- Additional Comments From jens.dagerbo
> swipnet se  2004-03-17 20:30 -------
> Toplevel has been broken for about a year now..
> should we perhaps disable it?

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Comment 3 Jens Dagerbo 2004-12-14 19:01:47 UTC

Yes, KMDI.

Comment 4 Matt Rogers 2004-12-21 17:36:37 UTC

fixing the disaster left by "Change Several Bugs at once"

Comment 5 Matt Rogers 2008-02-10 17:30:13 UTC

kmdi has been removed in KDE 4 and no more fixes will be made for KDE 3.5.x. The
apps that were using kmdi in the KDE SVN repository have moved to their own
multi-document implementations