• Scripting in Kate

    by  • 2012-01-21 • 2 Comments

    Since several releases, Kate Part has scripting support through javascript. So far, it seems it is not much used by users. Still, I stumbled over two extensions: jump to previous / next paragraph base64 encoding If you have more user defined scripts, it would be nice if you let us know! For KDE5, we plan [...]

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    Highlighting Search & Replace Matches

    by  • 2011-12-22 • 35 Comments

    In response to Kate in KDE 4.8, there was this reply on reddit: Does this mean the stupid search/replace functionality has finally been fixed? Once the search/replace marks/colors text there’s no way to clear it so when you’re replacing keywords the last one will be permanently marked with background color unless you reload the file or [...]

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    Kate in KDE 4.8

    by  • 2011-12-21 • 16 Comments

    About half a year ago, Kate 3.7 was released as part of KDE 4.7. Now that KDE 4.8 is about to be released, let’s have a look at what Kate brings in KDE 4.8. Bug Fixes According to KDE’s bug tracker, about 190 issues were solved. Taking a closer look, lots of small issues were [...]

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    Evolution of Kate Development (Take 2)

    by  • 2011-11-6 • 1 Comment

    Dominik’s video is cool, but we agreed that perhaps the names should be around and we can have a bit higher resolution to make them readable Therefore here is a second take of the video, this time with names and 720p. (I have no luck with music, therefore, silence) You only get to see the [...]

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    Evolution of Kate Development

    by  • 2011-11-3 • 5 Comments

    Recently, the Kate project celebrated its 10th anniversary. The gource visualization of 10 years Kate development (2001 to 2011) looks as follows. Have fun PS: In case you do not see any video, click here. PPS:Launch gource on kdelibs, that’s much more interesting!

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    Plasma Active

    by  • 2011-10-15 • 2 Comments

    At the desktop summit, many contributors got a ExoPC from Intel, but the software on it was quite a disappointment. Meanwhile, there is an official release of Plasma Active that fills the gap. So I sat down and installed it on the ExoPC. It really works quite nice and smooth. Applications like Amarok and a [...]

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    One great man less :(

    by  • 2011-10-13 • 4 Comments

    Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at home this weekend. As the creator of the C programming language and one of the main developers of Unix, he impacted the life of me and other developers a lot. Even today, 30 years after their initial creation, many people work on Unix like systems (like Linux or Mac OS) and [...]

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    Google Summer of Code 2011: A summary

    by  • 2011-10-11

    Google summer of a code is an annual programme where Google pays students to work on open source projects in the summer months. The students have one or more mentors from the project who help them get started and function as a contact point for the developer community.
    In 2008 I did a Google Summer [...]

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    Qt open governance will go live!

    by  • 2011-09-12 • 0 Comments

    Finally some sustainable announcements about the future of Qt and its open governance project: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ I hope this will be well received and we will see yet another increase in contributions to our Qt/KDE ecosystem Thanks for all the effort to all people who made this possible!

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