Version: 3.4.59 (using 4.4.59 (KDE 4.4.59 (KDE 4.5 >= 20100107)), compiled sources) Compiler: gcc OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.26-2-amd64 Bug or feature? When Kate is running, and the Kate runner opens a session, the latter is opened in the current Kate instance instead of starting a new one. If I wanted to switch sessions, I would use Kate's session menu.
This is not a kate issue, the runner is maintained by the plasma team.
Do you know if the behavior of kate has recently changed ? It seems to me that the runner has been unchanged. It used to start a new session in kde 4.3.x. It is now no longer opening a new session. It seems to me that kate is now requiring -n option to the command line. Does somebody could check that my attached patch to apply in kdeplasma-addons/runners/katesessions is correct ? Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 41503 [details] Patch to make the runner open a new kate instance again Patch that should apply against KDE trunk in kdeplasma-addons/runners/katesessions
SVN commit 1101762 by aseigo: some cleanups and fixes: match against "kate", better priorities and spawn a new session latter fix based on a patch by Gallien Matthieu BUG:222987 M +18 -15 katesessions.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1101762
Hello, I would like to thank you for having take care of the bug so quickly. It is really a pleasure as a user to see such care taken especially because you not only corrected the bug but also improved the runner. By the way, did you backport it to kde 4.4 ? I would like to ask the Debian maintainers to pick it to avoid recompiling locally on my work computer. Best regards