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I’ve installed Kate and it seems pretty good. It’s quite customisable in terms of the layout and such(similar to VSCodium), and it seems to have most of the things I need. I’ll have to try both of them out and decide on which I like better.

Two things about Kate I don’t like though: there’s no everforest theme (fortunately I found Tokyo Night to be pretty good), and the file picket window doesn’t follow my GNOME theme and is a bright white box. I guess that’s because Kate doesn’t support GTK themes?

Also, what’s the difference between what looks like three different folder tree buttons (Document seems to only show one file, and then Project and File Browser plugin both show the full tree of the folder you have opened)? And is there an equivalent for the “Code Runner” plugin? If not, I guess I could always just run “python filename.py”, but a play/run button would be nice.

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Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh, good question, how to make Kate work well under GNOME. I have to admit, I use it under KDE, so never really dealt with the theming. But I believe, “Tokyo Night” is only the editor theme. Can you select a different Window Color scheme in the menubar under Settings?

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what’s the difference between what looks like three different folder tree buttons (Document seems to only show one file, and then Project and File Browser plugin both show the full tree of the folder you have opened)?

“Documents” only shows your currently open tabs. To be honest, I never quite figured out what it’s good for, but I think it makes more sense, if you use Kate for authoring texts or such. I normally disable it in the settings, under Plugins → Documents Tree.

“Filesystem” is kind of like a mini-file-manager. You can navigate to any directory you want in there, or have it always show the current folder of the document you have currently open. But it isn’t aware of what a repository is, so depending on how you open Kate, it may not show the right folder and jumping to the current document’s folder will put you into a sub-directory of your repository. As I said above, I also mostly keep that one disabled these days, although I can see it being useful.

“Projects” is aware of Git. It always shows the current repository folder, if you are in one, expanding the file tree from there. It hides files listed in .gitignore. And yeah, in my opinion just what you want to use for programming.

And is there an equivalent for the “Code Runner” plugin? If not, I guess I could always just run “python filename.py”, but a play/run button would be nice.

There is a plugin called “Build & Run”, which you can enable and which might do what you’re looking for. I typically prefer running from the terminal, so I can’t say too much about it…
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- sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If I ever get a new computer, I might have to try a distro based on KDE…I’m not bothered to switch DE on my current computer
  
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- sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes, I am able to change the window colour scheme from light to dark. Just the file open dialogue is a bright white which is weird…
  
  Also, thanks for answering my questions, that was really helpful :D
  
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  - Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Oh, I thought you meant one of those file tree sidebars was white.
    
    Does the file picker look somewhat like this?
    
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    Then it’s using the KDE file picker. I believe, it should be possible to make it use the GTK file picker, by configuring the “desktop portal” correctly.
    Here is a guide for doing the reverse of what you need (GTK application in KDE Plasma): wiki.archlinux.org/…/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_…
    Maybe you can do the steps the other way around or it helps you find a better guide…
    
    And no problem. 🙂
    
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    sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yep, that’s it. I’ll look at that soon, thanks!
    
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