SUMMARY The settings for autoreload per window/view has changed to dialog instead of banner. When set it is not persistent but requires setting in the window/view list every time a file has changed on disk, which is a real PITA if one uses multiple views to monitor files, or changes multiple files manually from outside kate. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. load file in kate 2. change file on disk, not by kate 3. do this for 15 files (write a script to append something to files) and feel the pain OBSERVED RESULT A dialog that asks for reload/overwrite/ignore a window/view change appers after every change on disk. EXPECTED RESULT The settings ought to be persistent per window/view. The old banner was a perfect solution; from a UI perspective it is more intuitive and less error-prone to make a setting as close as possible to where it is effective. Optimally, only persistent general settings have an extra window; slide-in panels or banners allow a quick, safe, fine-grained control. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll 20250101 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 Kernel Version: 6.12.9-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Make banner vs. dialog a general persistent setting.
Not sure why it is enabled in your PC, we didn't change the defaults. Disable "Use a separate dialog for handling externally modified files" setting in the config dialog.
I did a forced reinstall overnight that pulled in some 200-something MB of dependencies, mostly libraries. Now it works. Thank you for taking the time to reply. RESOLVED and NOT A BUG is right.