Kate does not start when set as the default editor for a paticular file extention

[Michael Lueck]

I prefer Kate as my default text editor. In 7.04, I had adjusted various file extensions to open Kate as the default editor. I wished to do so on 8.04 workstations, and found it not working. If I put the editor back to "Text Editor" then the default text editor does launch.

I verified that kate never starts via "sudo ps aux"... kate does not show up.

I found a work around to this problem... in the file association dialog, create a new association, and type in "kate" into the "Use custom command" field.

So, there seems to be some problem with the provided selection for Kate in Ubuntu 8.04.

Please let me know if there is further information I could provide that would assist.

Thanks!

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. Do you have the KDE3 oder KDE4 version?

[Michael Lueck (mlueck)]

I am running on Ubuntu, not Kubuntu.

Adding Kate seems to have pulled in the required kdelibs4c2a version 4:3.5.9, so what ever version that is.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

It would be the KDE3 version then.