Hello, today i will show you a new plugin for Kate, called KateSQL. As you may have guessed, it brings to Kate the basic features of an SQL client, allowing you to open connections, execute queries, and display result data from SELECT statements or stored procedures. Since this plugin makes an extreme use of the [...]
Read more →Hello, As I stated in a previous post, the swap file feature for Kate is almost done. Back then, the view differences feature wasn’t ready, but now we have a basic implementation of it. So now, by pressing the “View changes” button, a new KProcess is created, which receives as command line arguments the ‘diff’ program [...]
Read more →Hey ho everyone.
Dominik asked me to blog about a feature in Kate that is still (sadly!) pretty unknown and seldom used: Kate Scripting. As you should know you can script KatePart completely via JavaScript. As those articles explain, it’s rather…
Read more →KDE has three wikis: TechBase, Community and UserBase. The separation has the following meaning according to http://wiki.kde.org: TechBase: The primary place for high quality technical information about KDE targeted at 3rd party developers, ISVs and system administrators. Community: The working area for the KDE community. It provides a place for sharing information within the community [...]
Read more →The Wheel of Time turns… meaning that the Kate Project has quite along history by now. The Kate Project was started back in December 2000, so it’s almost 10 years old. Development sometimes continues with a fast pace; and at other times there is almost no progress for weeks. But all in all, looking back [...]
Read more →As with any new code, during adoption bottlenecks show up. For example the rendering of text lines with many ranges inside was quiet slow. This is now partly addressed by Milian Wolff, thanks a lot. An other bottleneck was the assumption, that it is fast enough to hash the ranges just by their block and [...]
Read more →Last year we already discovered that Kate is truly the only holy text editor* (again thanks to rms for making us aware of it)! (and btw, xkcd is totally wrong). And now we even have yet another proof: The holy Kate maintainer and the naked woman! Enjoy (*) this is an insider from the joint [...]
Read more →Dominik already blogged about the issues we have in KatePart with the current SmartRange/SmartCursor/Smart* interfaces that were designed during the early KDE 4.0 release. Given that large amounts of the internal implementation are exposed to the outside in the interfaces, there was no feasible way to fix the issues with them. The problem with the [...]
Read more →Hello, As mid-term evaluations have started, I would like to show my current state of GSoC project, because I’ve never found the time to do it. The swap file feature is implemented, except for the view differences feature and few TODOs. Some more testing need to be done, though. Below are some screenshots of how [...]
Read more →My first Akademy was the greatest thing I’ve ever experienced. I remember I was quite unsure a month ago, wheter to come or not, but finally decided and booked my flight and hotel. In my first day, I was very shy and didn’t know what to do, but people came and talked to me and [...]
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