SUMMARY When using Kate Project plugin and files are created externally e.g outside of comfort of kate editor, project plugin does not list those files. One must force Project refresh/reload. This is seem inconsistent since Filesystem tool view immediately detects the change and lists new file. Also, this affect "Quick Open" in similar way e.g. new project files not showing up in file list. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create/Open a project directory with some initial set of files 2. Externally e.g outside of kate editor (in a terminal window say do "touch new_file.txt") create a new file in project directory OBSERVED RESULT 1. Check "Project Tool View" and see that there is no new_file.txt 2. Open "Quick Open" to search and open new_file.txt - fine is not in a list EXPECTED RESULT Externally created files are detected to be part of project and showing up both in "Project Tool" view and "Quick Open". SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.17.5-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics Memory: 13,6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD RENOIR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I'm also not a fan of this view, but "it works as intended" . Look at https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate and search in old issues/merge requests To achieve your expected behavior one would need to watch all directories and that can became quickly expensive.
(In reply to Lothar from comment #1) > I'm also not a fan of this view, but "it works as intended" . Look at > https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate and search in old issues/merge > requests > > To achieve your expected behavior one would need to watch all directories > and that can became quickly expensive. I appreciate your comment. I did a quick look in kate's giltab, but did not find any mention of the problem (probably my search-fu was not at it's best). But I am willing to believe you. Yet I am not entirely convinced that "watching" directory for new files is that expensive these days. Lots of editors/IDEs cope with that quite good. Also, technologies like inotify allow to solve it quite easily (albeit I recognize the challenge of doing it in platform agnostic way).
> I did a quick look in kate's giltab, but did not find any mention of the problem Hm, I may have remembered it a little wrongly. But this is a similar problem, and mention watching: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/issues/55#note_420405 by the way improved in the meantime. > Yet I am not entirely convinced that "watching" directory for new files is that expensive these days Yeah, but expensive in a way that these inotify stuff is not unlimited available. So it's wise not to use it too careless.
(In reply to Lothar from comment #3) > > I did a quick look in kate's giltab, but did not find any mention of the > problem > > Hm, I may have remembered it a little wrongly. But this is a similar > problem, and mention watching: > https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/issues/55#note_420405 by the way > improved in the meantime. > > > Yet I am not entirely convinced that "watching" directory for new files is that expensive these days > > Yeah, but expensive in a way that these inotify stuff is not unlimited > available. So it's wise not to use it too careless. OK, fair enough. It does seems I am asking too much of the plugin. Have to keep in mind pressing that "refresh" icon if I am not seeing new files ;-)
> It does seems I am asking too much of the plugin I don't know, I don't like it in this form either. But my ideas for changes are unpopular. To your request: It would logical fit when there would be an "action" (button/menu) to import/add new files to some project. Then would the plugin know it need an update and could also trigger "stage new stuff". But, yes, just keep in mind you need to reload manually is a working compromise. Um, that reminds me, there was some other patch. When you open your new add stuff and save it, it appear then as "untracked". So, half way solved, I guess.
Valid, but I think we haven't done this intentionally. Directory watching brings some problems with it and has little benefit. I assume people spend more time writing code / text then creating files. Even you create 10 files in an hour, clicking the refresh button is trivial.