https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390870
--- Comment #8 from Michel Ludwig <michel.lud...@kdemail.net> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #7) > Kile is a pretty advanced piece of software for experts (everyone I know who > uses LaTeX is a pretty advanced computer user who's used to text editors > having line numbers), so I didn't think it would be a problem. Just to clarify, Kile's user base includes computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and so on. Not every computer scientist is an advanced computer user, and the same is probably true for the latter two. And when I say "not advanced", I really mean it ;) Of course, everyone could understand the concept of line numbers, but my point is that line numbers are not essential for the editing workflow in Kile. In fact, Kile tries to do everything to hide line numbers from the users, and it will do even more so in the future. So, turning them on by default would undermine those efforts. (To provide a little empirical evidence for that claim, there hasn't been a feature wish requesting that line numbers are turned on by default in Kile so far) The screen on my (admittedly really old) laptop has a resolution of 1600x900 and line numbers consume too much space in Kile (especially in combination with code folding arrows), while not bringing an immediate benefit. > This just changes a default; it can be switched off manually or > programmatically, by editing ~/.config/katepartrc. Now, editing configuration files by hand is really for advanced advanced users only ;) I'm not sure whether there is a method in KTextEditor::View at the moment for toggling the display of line numbers. Moreover, a "constructor" argument for setting the default value of the show-line-numbers internal variable would also be needed. Otherwise, I will have to add such code to Kile, which checks whether the user changed that setting from the default value before turning line numbers off at the construction time of the KTextEditor::View. The logic behind the show-line-numbers setting would then be moved into Kile essentially. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
