The advantages are all advantages you get from using Kate, which has it's own plugins, window splits, session management, external tools, and so on. I'm not sure about disadvantages :)
>> Are there plans to have in a future Protoeditor only as Kate Plugin?
After writing it as plugin, it didn't make sense for me to have a stand-alone version, because I would be writing and mantaning another editor. If features are needed, I would have to write them for this specific editor. And Kate is a better choice, anyway.
Thiago
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What are advantages or disadvantages of Protoeditor as Kate Plugin?
I have instead of KDE XFCE. I have managed somehow with kdelibs4-dev to compile Protoeditor. And it seems to be running.
Are there plans to have in a future Protoeditor only as Kate Plugin?
The advantages are all advantages you get from using Kate, which has it's own plugins, window splits, session management, external tools, and so on. I'm not sure about disadvantages :)
>> Are there plans to have in a future Protoeditor only as Kate Plugin?
After writing it as plugin, it didn't make sense for me to have a stand-alone version, because I would be writing and mantaning another editor. If features are needed, I would have to write them for this specific editor. And Kate is a better choice, anyway.
Thiago
Oh, and I mean yes, I think it will drop the stand alone version, and mantain only the kate plugin.