Working With the Kate MDI
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Chapter 3. Working With the Kate MDI

Anders Lund

Overview

Window, View, Document, Frame, Editor... What are they all in the terminology of Kate, and how do you get the most out of it? This chapter will explain all of that, and even more.

The Main Window

The Kate Main Window is a standard KDE application window, with the addition of side bars containing tool views. It has a Menubar with all the common menus, and some more, and a toolbar providing access to commonly used commands.

The most important part of the window is the Editing Area, by default displaying a single text editor component, in which you can work with your documents.

The docking capabilities of the window is used for the tool windows:

And possibly other tool views, for example provided by plugins.

Tool views can be positioned in any sidebar, to move a tool right click its sidebar button and select from the right mouse button menu

A tool view can be marked as persistent in the right mouse button menu for its sidebar button. The sidebar can contain more tools at one time so that when a tool is persistant other tools can be shown simultaneously.

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