openQA found that the tabs changed appearance, now they are just as big as the title needs: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/1315579#step/kate/24 Is this change intentional? This makes the hit area smaller.
intentional to match every other app in KDE.
No, this was an accident ;=) It should be fixed now again in master, thanks for the pointer!
(In reply to tcanabrava from comment #1) > intentional to match every other app in KDE. => I actually thought this would have been an accident, in any case, I want to have the "expanding" behavior, it makes no sense to make the hit area smaller.
Confirmed to be fixed: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/1319235#step/kate/22 The tab is actually the full width now instead of half the width, but that's arguably even better.