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Re: Kate, Kant, KWrite (was Galeon problem)
I'm pretty sure that as of KDE 2.2.x Kate = kwrite. "Advanced Editor."
is just the fancy name for kwrite. The code is the same for both KWrite
and Kant, but the look differs between them.
I remember reading about the discussion on the kde lists. I believe
they decided to replace kwrite with kate, but left the kwrite executable
in there (using the same code base as Kate) for compatibility. I
haven't followed those lists since about kde2.2.0, so things may have
changed since then.
Kate was originally called Kant, named after the German philosopher, but
people thought that it'd be confused with another similar sounding word
(guess..) so they changed the name to Kate. Too bad, I though Kant was
clever, and showed Linux users/developers to be well read. Oh well,
that's marketing for you.
As for kedit, it's not retarded, just closer to Notepad. (Okay, maybe
that is the same thing ;) It's a different code base and offers no
syntax highlighting etc. It may be a bit faster, though. It's been in
there since KDE 1.x, and is not related to kwrite in any way.
I think the whole Kate, Kant, KWrite, Kedit (and Advanced Editor) is
just a little baggage that's been creeping up on KDE.
Cheers,
Ben
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 03:25, Nick Baird wrote:
> Rod,
>
> I think the 'advanced' text editor is called kate. kwrite was
> replaced by kedit - if kate is advanced them presumably kedit
> is retarded :)
>
> Nick.
>
> On Sunday 27 January 2002 2:55 am, rod wrote:
> > Not 100% sure but isn't the kde advanced text editor actually
> > kwrite. If so then I lost it when I upgraded to kde 2.2.2.
> > Apparently it's no longer maintained and has been removed
> > from kde.
> >
> > If some of your kde packages where updated then this is
> > probably why it doesn't work.
> >
> > Rod
> >
> > Cyberclops wrote:
> > > I had that very same problem, but I got it solved last
> > > night when I upgraded to "testing" and then installed
> > > "galeon from Ben Hall's site. THe only thing that went
> > > wrong after that was that KDE's advanced text editor always
> > > crashes when launched but at least I have Galeon and spell
> > > checking also works. Here are the sources I used:
> > >
> > > #Libranet
> > > deb https://libranetlinux.com updates/
> > >
> > > #Debian
> > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
> > > non-free
> > >
> > > #Debian Non-US
> > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib
> > > non-free
> > >
> > > # Moses.cx Potato Packages (Galeon, Sylpheed and more)
> > > deb http://www.moses.cx/files stable main
> > >
> > > Everything else was commented out (#)
> > >
> > > Now who knows what to do about the KDE / advanced text
> > > editor problem?
> > >
> > > Peter Herissone-Kelly wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I've just installed the deb package of galeon. When I try
> > > > to launch the
> > > > app, I get a message that says:
> > > >
> > > > "Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences. Check your
> > > > gconf setup, look
> > > > at galeon FAQ for more info."
> > > >
> > > > The galeon FAQ tells me to run a script from galeon's
> > > > source directory.
> > > > The script is nowhere to be found on my hd. Despite the
> > > > "cannot find a
> > > > schema" complaint, I do have a file called
> > > > /etc/gconf/schemas/galeon.schemas. What do I need to do?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > > > by a bright,
> > > > white
> > > > light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus
> > > > Torvalds, but God. In
> > > > a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE
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