I accidentally used the 'hide menu bar' feature. The laptop was lagging badly and i even could not read the banner. I was unable to use kate for some weeks until i try all control+key hotkey until i found control+m This needs polish, i even searched in google and control+m was not in any results.... Currently, there is no visual way to know how to bring back the menu bar... Also, editing the config file manually does not work! (/home/$USER/.config/katerc) [General] Config Revision=10 Days Meta Infos=30 Last Session= Save Meta Infos=true Show Full Path in Title=false Show Menu Bar=true << i even changed this from false to true but it did not work! Show Status Bar=true Show Tab Bar=true Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. accidentally press control+m or Preferences -> show menu bar (under imput lag or just lag) 2. do not read the banner (under lag + imput lag) Actual Results: If one does not known the control+m hotkey beforehand, it is possible that a new user might not be able to bring back the menu bar and stops using the application. Expected Results: a visual way to bring back the menus or something that at least suggest how to do it.
Created attachment 97246 [details] kate without menus if somebody accidentally hides the menu bar and does not know about control+m, kate will remain like this.
As soon as you hide the menubar, 1. you get a dialog, telling you to hit CTRL+m again to show it again 2. every context menu in the view then contains "Show Menu Bar" as last entry. So it definitely is accessible and in line with what other applications do. The only possible way to improve this is to show a tool button in the toolbar saying "Show Menubar". But also here: if your toolbar is hidden, you will not see this.
We do the same as any other KDE application and even me, who sometimes hides his menu bar by accident, can discover how to get it back by that. We won't add a "Kate only" way to do it in addition.