In recent KDE releases up to version 4.4 Kate unfortunately very often selected the wrong encoding. The result is that e.g. german umlauts (öäü) show up as cryptic signs in the text editor. What I’ve seen lots of times is that in this case people start to fix those characters manually for the entire document. [...]
Read more →Hello planet, As Google Summer of Code is now finished and I have successfully passed the final evaluation, I would like to give a brief description of my project. Kate is now able to recover (most of) what was written after last save in case of a crash or power failure. A swap file is [...]
Read more →Each night now Kate (part/app) is build from git and all unit tests are run. Yeah, we even got some tests .P Until now, that just reminds on of our failures But I hope the daily mail will perhaps motivate me and others more to fix them Beside, thanks for all the people working to [...]
Read more →While setting up the new server for the Kate homepage, I actually found again old stuff Amazing that mails nearly ten years old can still be somewhere on the filesystem. Perhaps a little hint, to post the beginnings of what today is Kate/KatePart/KWrite and KTextEditor. Ten years ago, I asked the original author of KWrite, [...]
Read more →The website is now on a new server, which is a lot faster than the old one and software/hardware is fresh again. Hope the problems we had in the past few weeks are over now. No other real downtimes are planned, perhaps some reboots but nothing more than some minutes Hope I can now finally [...]
Read more →In the last weeks, the homepage was sometimes down, as the server it is on is slowly dying. I just negotiate the transfer to a new one. That one will allow additional stuff to be run, guess we than even have nightly unit test runs (at least I hope so) Therefor it may be, that [...]
Read more →Like told in previous posts here and there, KDE 4.6 won’t have a KatePart that supports the SmartInterface but instead KatePart moves on to the new and shiny (and much simpler) MovingInterface for the handling of automatic moving cursors and ranges. Now the big cut is done: KatePart in /trunk no longer implements the SmartInterface. [...]
Read more →Looking back at the last month, migrating our Kate homepage over to WordPress was a vast success. The useful content we had on our old Drupal was copied over. The benefit of WordPress is that we now have a nice blog software as well with which we even aggregate some external blogs related to Kate. [...]
Read more →KDE 4.5 will be released in the next days with the most polished Kate/KWrite and KatePart during the KDE 4.x series. A lot of work went into fixing bugs and cleaning up old code for this release. Many important aspects where redone, just to enumerate a few: encoding detection & handling the text buffer the [...]
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