Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.2) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Let's say I am at desktop 4, I run kate, I switch to desktop 1, I run kate and... nothing happens. And since nothing happens I (the user) have to figure it is indication I have somewhere kate running. It is too little informative -- moving kate to the current desktop is a better idea, or displaying message where the kate is (but I think it is much less productive).
PS. Since it bitting me from time to time, my opinion clarified ;-) A message with timeout would be the best for the start -- something like amarok has when displaying info of track played. After a second or two, the message disappears without user intervention.
Similar to bug #125738 (probably either wish would obsolete the other).
Added urgent flag to kate window, if it gets activated trough dbus, see http://commits.kde.org/kate/16c8e8f39b03ceec98183868bcf71ea5d63195ca So at least the window manager will get you hint about activity on another desktop/tag.
Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last two years and no contributor stepped up to implement it. The Kate/KTextEditor team is very small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs. Therefore wishs that show no activity for two 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 two years again. We have a nice website kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it. For highlighting improvements our user manual shows how to write syntax definition files. Greetings Christoph