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Re: Kate, Kant, KWrite (was Galeon problem)
A mute issue but my text editor of choice is gnotepad+. I use a text
editor quite a bit and this one is quite nice. The one in the woody tree
has a few refinements that the version on the libranet 1.9.0 cd lacked.
Rod
Ben Hall wrote:
>
> 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 Apparently it's no longer maintained and has been removed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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