• Archive for February, 2010

    Design Ideas of the Kate::TextBuffer

    by  • 2010-02-28 • Developers

    Storage Basic idea: text stored as lines Lines hold text and additional data (like for highlighting) Advanced Concept: Stores lines in blocks of xxx lines, to have better performance Cursor Support They will move on editing Cursors can be combined to ranges KateTextCursor will be stored in the buffer blocks Transactions Each edit action must [...]

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    Kate Partly Moving to Gitorious

    by  • 2010-02-27 • Developers

    We are about to move the applications Kate and KWrite as well as the libraries KTextEditor and Kate Part to gitorious. Christoph is working on the migration right now in order to keep the development history. Things look good so far, so the migration is soon finished.We have discussed a bit about the migration to [...]

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    Kate Highlighting for QML, JavaScript

    by  • 2010-02-26 • KDE

    Hey everyone!

    I’ve started my internship at KDAB this week, it’s great fun so far! Though I spent most of my time this week on Bertjans KDevelop plugin, I couldn’t resist on a bit of Kate hacking:

    steveire is experimenting with …

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    Kate Highlighting for QML, JavaScript

    by  • 2010-02-26 • KDE

    Hey everyone!

    I’ve started my internship at KDAB this week, it’s great fun so far! Though I spent most of my time this week on Bertjans KDevelop plugin, I couldn’t resist on a bit of Kate hacking:

    steveire is experimenting with …

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    The Power of Developer Meetings

    by  • 2010-02-17 • Events

    Since several years, we have lots of small developer meetings in the KDE project, gratefully supported by the KDE e.V. There, developers of a certain project (e.g. KMail/kdepim, Plasma, you name it) meet to discuss further plans and to push the project further. From experience we can tell that those meetings are really beneficial in [...]

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    Developer Meeting: More on scripting Kate

    by  • 2010-02-17 • Developers, Events

    We are 10 people here at the developer meeting in Berlin. Kate, KDevelop as well as Okteta see a lot of commits. I’ll mainly talk about what’s happening in the holy Kate land, though Yesterday I closed a bug requesting an “unwrap” feature in Kate that works like “Tools > Join Lines” but maintains paragraph [...]

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    Kate/KDevelop HackSprint Day 1

    by  • 2010-02-14 • Events

    So, first day of the Kate/KDevelop hacksprint.

    We just talked and hacked at the rented flat,got to know each other and had a fun time. Everybody made it more or less in time, even last minute attendee Adymo from Ukraine, nice! Hacking-wise the product…

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    Snippets In KDevelop / Kate

    by  • 2010-02-3 • Developers

    Hey all!

    Just wanted to give you a little rundown on Snippets in Kate 4.4 (via the snippets_tng plugin) and KDevelop Beta 8 (soon to be released).

    Note: The Kate plugin was written by Jowenn and introduced me to all these nice features. For KDevelop …

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