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I've looked high and low through the settings, but I can't seem to figure out how to prevent KDE Kate 3.13 from auto-collapsing branches in the Documents pane when opening files. This is really annoying to me, since I then have to re-dig in to the collapsed file structures to figure out where the previous file I was working on is located.

Does anyone know where the secret sauce is on this one?

To reproduce this issue:

  1. Have a Kate installation at or around version 3.13
  2. Place the Documents pane in Tree view via Right Click->View Mode->Tree Mode
  3. Open up several documents in different branches via File->Open.
  4. Open up a file in a different branch than the currently exposed branches in the tree view.
  5. Observe that the other branches in the Documents pane auto-collapse.

Workaround While Waiting For Fix:

  1. Enable Console Tool and open Konsole interface (or use a regular Konsole instance)
  2. execute "kate " to open the file without triggering the document collapse.
emanaton
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    Can you explain the problem in more detail? "auto-collapsing branches in the Documents pane when opening files"?? I never experienced auto-collapsing directories in the document pane. – marekful Jun 18 '14 at 15:46
  • Sorry @MarcellFülöp -- I've added steps to reproduce to the OP. – emanaton Jun 20 '14 at 22:10
  • In earlier versions of kate, that was controlled by `Settings->Configure Kate->Plugins->Symbol Viewer->Automatically expand nodes in tree mode` Good luck with the kde4 version... – David C. Rankin Jun 21 '14 at 06:44
  • Sadly, playing with the Symbol Viewer setting (or enabling/disabling it) has no effect on this issue. =o/ – emanaton Jun 23 '14 at 14:27

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There is a bug report about it and we also have a possible fix. However, this fix was not yet applied. If all goes well, this is fixed for KDE SC 4.13.3.

dhaumann
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  • Oh snap! Thank you, @dhaumann! I'd looked but not found a bug report, so assumed it must be user-error. Clearly, I need to work on my search-word guesses. Cheers! – emanaton Jun 24 '14 at 18:35