Created attachment 114841 [details] The invisible separator As shown in the attachment, there is no visible indicator of the separator widget with which we can resize the File Search pane. The approximate place where the widget should be visible is indicated by a red line painted. Ubuntu 18.04.1. Kate 17.12.3.
The QSplitter exists. This is a style issue. Try using different styles, then it should be visible. Reassigning.
Style in the screenshot is not breeze. There is no splitter/separator there. It is true that even if there were one, it would be invisible in breeze, but at least the spacing would be larger and the mouse cursor would change when hovering the splitter. Reassigning to kate. this is a kate bug.
There actually are some tiny dots in the splitter. The reason the default rendering for splitters does not show any frames or lines is that they are designed to be used between two (framed) views. It would help if there was an upstream way to style splitters that are used between (non-framed) plain widgets.
(In reply to Hugo Pereira Da Costa from comment #2) > Style in the screenshot is not breeze. > There is no splitter/separator there. > It is true that even if there were one, it would be invisible in breeze, but > at least the spacing would be larger and the mouse cursor would change when > hovering the splitter. > > Reassigning to kate. > this is a kate bug. ok sorry. Ignore the comment. In fact there is a splitter ... (blush) it turns out it is invisible in both fusion and breeze.
So is this a Breeze issue, then?
Not really. Breeze has no idea that a splitter is used outside of a view cascade. The chances that Qt developers add a style hint for those splitters is very small because QtWidgets are feature-frozen since a long time. If there are really convincing arguments to increase visibility, I would suggest to add some QFrame with a HLine graphics.
Confirmed this is still an issue in Kate 20.11.70.
We have now moved the status bar away from the view and into the bottom row. This should lead to a better separation, as now the text are is the thing above the tool views. https://kate-editor.org/post/2022/2022-02-27-kate-ui-improvements/