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...
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...
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...
Read more →kate-editor.org now contains all articles from the old page still applicable to Kate in KDE 4 and in addition all blog entries of Dominik which are Kate centric. Beside that it will aggregate the blog entries of Milian for Kate Still, a lot of work is needed. We already got an offer for help...
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