Please add hook to file for selected syntax highlighting theme to automatically reload configuration when is changed! Now I have to use dirty hack which I don't want... cwid=$(xdotool getactivewindow) for ((i=0,s=$(xdotool get_num_desktops); i<=s; i++)); do xdotool search --desktop $i --class kate | while read -r wid; do xdotool windowactivate --sync $wid key F7 type reload-highlighting xdotool key --delay 100 --window $wid Return done done xdotool windowactivate --sync $cwid
Hmm, you mean to auto-reload if you altered some .theme file on disk and not via the config dialog in the current instance?
Yes. Or just add "reload-highlighting" action to dbus! Or even better. Add "reload-instance" action to dbus witch will reopen/reload kate instance and consequently reloaded all the configuration, theme, icons, styles! Because Kate always have a problems or glitches with adopting new stuff or handling with changes on the filesystem itself, so better reload everything!
I don't think there is some proper way to regenerate everything, e.g. we cache icons in a lot of places, that will not be something that is to achieve with I think too much work to be worth the hassle. But I can see a point in having some easy way to trigger highlighting reloading at least.
"we cache icons in a lot of places..." Please don't do that! Because again, you don't watch when things changes! I opened a ticket here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457261 I don't know exactly how kde framework work, but let's say: - I tinted all action icons to red color - now I touch qt5ct configuration file - because qt5ct watch out for changes on own configuration file (lol), now somehow tells all kde applications: "hey, icons are changed! update icons with new ones!" -ALL other kde applications adopt new icons correctly, just kate fails, because you cache and don't watch!
> Please don't do that! Because again, you don't watch when things changes! You have no idea what you are talking about and no idea what is cached and what is not so stop with the "don't do that" stuff. However, for the record, in Ktexteditor and Kate, we usually _do not_ cache icons. There's actually very few places where icons are cached and those places are generally some kind of list or treeview. For menus and toolbars we don't do any caching anywhere in kate IIRC. Thus, it's highly likely your other bug is not a Kate bug, but a problem in some framework.
I just quoted what Christoph says! Actually I don't care who have problem with what.., kate does not correctly adopt new icons when icon theme is changed and that's all what matters! And that in whole application, not just toolbars and menus!
If all other KDE applications work, that is strange, we don't do special handling of the icons in e.g. menus or toolbars in most cases. If they don't change, that is a generic issue. Are Kate and the other KDE applications installed the same way?
As Waqar said, we only cache a few icons, if in general that doesn't work for you with Kate for all stuff there, this looks more like a issue in your distro.
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