https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211101
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211101#c4
--- Comment #4 from Kilian Hanich
I'm aware you were discussing kwrite. But kwrite lacks functionality that kate has, and I want to avoid people having to dive into transactional-update to install kate, at this time, as it's used by lots of kde users. And I suspect it will become a repeated support issue if removed. So I'm saving myself the headache.
If kate were something less feature rich, like gedit or "Text Editor" (Whatever gnome is calling it now) or something like leafpad or or featherpad, or any other text editor that is almost literally just a text editor, It might be a different story, but it isn't.
Maybe, but it's unlikely for Kate to ever be in Flathub (or available as a Flatpak in general) since the maintainer sees it as undesirable. So it's quite likely that if we go with that option to always be installed as an RPM which I doubt is a goal of microOS, even more so since Kate is supposed to be configured by installing dev tools alongside it like language servers which would need to be installed via transactional-update anyway here. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.