Kate (and kdevelop) currently uses KMultiTabBar-based sidebars which don't behave like normal docks and suffer from several issues: * they cannot be dragged&dropped to detach, attach, move left/right/up/down; instead, they have context menu specifying their position; * detached docks don't repaint (with non-compositing WM at least), which might be a separate bug; * they use (HIG-questionable?) vertically rotated text for side areas; The wish is to move to standard Qt docks as used in other apps such as Paraview, Krita, FreeCAD and numerous others. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: git (from kdesrc-build) (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: git KDE Frameworks Version: git Qt Version: 5.13 (? pulled by kdesrc-build) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Hi, this is more a wish than a bug. If one wants to change this, somebody must step up to implement it and we need to have feature parity, then we can decide if that is a good thing to have.
To keep the bug list small I close this now. Not exact what was requested but an improvement. And as Christoph said somewhere in the MR are standard Qt docks not best for Kate. https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/835
At least without extensive modifications, they don't allow to implement what we have. And if we modify them a lot, they will no longer behave like normal ones, too.