On Thursday 21 January 2016 22.41:53 Baron wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
>
> I don't care for "kate" either.  I am trying to get rid of it !
>
> I originally went into Synaptic and tried to remove it from there, but
> it wanted to remove most of TDE. So I chickened out and tried to
> rename every instance that I could find to stop it opening up when
> ever I selected a text file. I also tried "open with" and "remember
> application".  So I've now been round and deleted every instance that
> I can find, but it simply replaces the renamed or deleted files.
>
> --
> Best Regards:
>             Baron

Seems we'll need some of the wizards that make TDE. I thought maybe deleting 
or renaming the program would do - but after 
deleting /opt/trinity/bin/kate...  I can still start kate!

I would guess parts of kate are integrated in konqueror (as it seems to be the 
default editor).

So removing kate seems at least very difficult. It is the default embeded 
editor (and there is no other editor proposed in the list in the 
ControlCenter. I can associate kedit with *.txt files, but kate remains the 
default embeded editor.

This may explain why it's difficult (impossible?) to remove, but I've never 
seen it respawning. 

Thierry