SUMMARY Changing the setting "Switch to output view upon message type" doesn't get applied. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Go to Settings -> Configure Kate -> Behavior 2. Change to anything else than "Error" in the drop-down menu "Switch to output view upon message type" 3. Hit Apply OBSERVED RESULT Check katerc, no change EXPECTED RESULT Check katerc, option changed SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.14.5-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor Memory: 15,6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 570 Series ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Searching trough the Kate source code, I noticed that there is no writeEntry for this setting, only readEntry. Is that the source of the problem? https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/blob/master/kate/kateconfigdialog.cpp#L91 https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/blob/master/kate/kateconfigdialog.cpp#L338 https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/blob/master/kate/kateoutputview.cpp#L233
Git commit bc6c1a9328316ec660377e22638922341ddd5396 by Christoph Cullmann. Committed on 03/10/2021 at 19:29. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'. save 'Show output view for message type' setting M +1 -1 kate/kateconfigdialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/commit/bc6c1a9328316ec660377e22638922341ddd5396
Good catch, sorry for that. Was too dumb to copy'n'paste the right code there :/
Git commit 3c49ff662b7e87a4a3012650ded4dcdcb9f6d526 by Christoph Cullmann. Committed on 09/10/2021 at 21:21. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'lsp2clipboard'. save 'Show output view for message type' setting M +1 -1 kate/kateconfigdialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/commit/3c49ff662b7e87a4a3012650ded4dcdcb9f6d526