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 dockable subwindows, or tool windows. 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 windows, for example provided by plugins.

The Tool Windows can be placed anywhere you want them inside or outside the main window by dragging the handle bar in the top of them with the left mouse button pressed, and stacked in shared tab windows if desired.

When dragging a docked window, a black rectangle will be displayed to indicate where the window will be placed if you release the mouse button, unless you move the mouse cursor outside the main window, in which case the dragged window will become a free floating top level window.

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