Well this was my own wish list to have normal Tab Bar in Kate.
And finally I wrote a Tab Bar Plugin – Tabify (this is for now mostly will changed it to TabBar Extension in svn later)
This is how it looks
Here is the patch and this is the “Tar” for the folder.
enjoy 
One more Kate wish completed by me . Bug no. 93230 and this will also be in KDE4.5 .
Problem/Wish: There is no way to add a file by rightclicking to a folder in Filesystem Broswer(filebrowser plugin).
Solution: Updated the KDirOperator with KNewFileMenu wrapper “setNewFileMenuSupportedMimeTypes” which will Only show the files in a given set of mimetypes it Internally uses KNewFileMenu::setSupportedMimeTypes. In general now we can restrict options to be shown in Create New, this is useful in specialized applications like kate etc. while file managers, on the other hand, want to show all mimetypes. (thanks to David Faure for moving KNewMenu to kdelibs as KNewFileMenu).
* for more details here is the bug description.
This is how the new context menu of kate Filesystem Browser will look:
To download patch click here.
One more patch from my side to Kate. This time it’s from kate wish-list Bug No. 62998 and this will be in KDE 4.5 .
Problem/Wish: There was no option for closing and saving multiple (selected) files in document list.
Solution: Changed the document list’s selection mode to QAbstractItemView::ExtendedSelection and added two options in list’s context-menu, Save Selected and Close Selected , now user can select multiple files in document list by Left-click + Ctrl combination and close them using Right-click + Close Selected or/and save them using Right-click + Save Selected options.
* for more details here is the bug description.
This is how the new context menu of kate document list will look :
To download patch click here.
Long time since I made a blog post … My new year started with a bang .. completing one item from my own wish list i.e contribute to a Open-Source project.
I have started contributing to KDE Kate. My 1st patch accepted for BUG No. 184055 which is now in kde 4.4 . Hurray …
About the fix:
Problem : Previously in Kate’s document view the last added file was not getting sorted as per the given sorting option.
Solution: Whenever user open the file call the document views sorting.
* for more details here is the bug description .
To download patch click here.
Though it was really small bug fix it was really a good learning experience. I will try to be consistent with contributing to KDE .
All credit goes to Pradeepto and Prashanth for encouraging and guiding me . Thanks guys.