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 [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →Maybe a good read: On being wrong. It’s about why it’s so hard to admit that you are wrong, and more.
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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!
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →With some of my gimp skills, I updated Kate’s feature list. Hope you like the face-lift
Read more →Christoph and me cleaned up the visualization of the code folding for KDE 4.8 a bit. In the snapshot, the left image shows the old behavior, and the right one shows the new behavior. The background highlighting appears as soon as you hover over the code folding bar. We hope you like it Mockups of [...]
Read more →Once in a while, there are really interesting blogs, presentations and reports about how to do things right as software developer. This is a quick list of links about API design and coding style: Designing Qt-Style C++ APIs (Qt4), by Matthias Ettrich, 2005 API Design Principles, extended version of (1), Qt Developer Network (Nokia) The [...]
Read more →As part of Christophs idea to give Kate a new face, it would be nice also to have a Kate banner, that every Kate fan can use to show in the Web. Something like the following, but any ideas are welcome!
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