Version: (using KDE 4.1.3) OS: Linux Installed from: SuSE RPMs The tooltip in the kate configuration dialog in Application > General > Behavior > Warn about files modified by foreign processes says that: "If enabled, when Kate receives focus you will be asked what to do with files that have been modified on the hard disk. If not enabled, you will be asked what to do with a file that has been modified on the hard disk only when that file gains focus inside Kate." This is not what is happening: when this option is off and a file is modified, you get no warning when the file gets focused. I tried it with kate 2 and it seemed to work so I guess this is a regression.
Using current trunk, that option seems to be unused: when another application change the current file, a warning icon is added near the filename on the opened files list.
(In reply to comment #1) > Using current trunk, that option seems to be unused: when another application > change the current file, a warning icon is added near the filename on the > opened files list. > Yes I had noticed that myself, but I "figured" this one from a friend who still uses kde 3, and used kate in kde 4 and complained that "it didn't warn about modified files". I think the former behavior should be restored, because this way it is very easy to miss a file change and overwrite it with older stuff (that's what happened to my friend), and you get a different behavior than what is expected. If there are people that like the current "don't bug me at all" behaviour, at least make it an option (and it would be nicer if it was not the default one).
*** Bug 204733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
commit a3b44aa810ed5efc7506431bd91bfabb8417e58f Author: Christoph Cullmann <cullmann@kde.org> Date: Sun Jun 26 00:37:49 2011 +0200 fix whatsthis BUG: 176893 icons and co are enough warning in treeview
Shouldn't this be closed as WONTFIX? After all, the commit in question doesn't really fix the issue and re-adds the dialog, it just changes the tooltip -- and for example #204733 and #193048 are duplicates because of the dialog, not the tooltip text.
If you like WONTFIX more, ok. I see this issue as resolved. You can no longer loose work, as there will always be an message before overwriting any changes.