In a project I’m currently working on I need to display the result of TeX code. So I thought it would be nice and accurate to compile the TeX code to produce a pdf, and then use libpoppler-qt4 to draw the pdf. This works in principal, but there is a licensing problem: libpoppler is...
Read more →In KDE 4.10, the “Find All” and “Replace All” highlights all matches and at the same time shows a passive notification in a bar below the view. This bar is animated, and takes quite a lot of place in addition to the search & replace bar. Since some days, Kate Part can also show...
Read more →In the recent months Kate saw quite some contributions from developers other than “the usual kate developers”. This is really cool, areas include more work on python plugins, a lot of bug fixing and fine tuning in the vi input mode, an improved python indenter, and more unit tests. Especially one unit test turned...
Read more →Okular, KDE’s universal document viewer, has a really cool feature I’m using for years already: “Go > Forward” and “Go > Backward”. These two actions allow to quickly jump to positions in the document where you came from in a chronological order. Consider e.g. reading the phrase “As shown in , …”, and you...
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