• About Dominik

    Dominik is a PhD student at the Control Theory and Robotics Lab, TU Darmstadt, as part of the Research Training Group GKMM (GRK1362). My research focuses on state estimation in distributed systems. As hobby, I contribute to the KDE project and work on the Kate application and editor component.

    http://www.kate-editor.org

    How to convert pdf to svg

    by  • June 1, 2013 • KDE • 9 Comments

    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...

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    Kate: New contributors, Valgrind, and a fixed bug

    by  • March 17, 2013 • Developers • 1 Comment

    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...

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    Navigation in Okular: Back & Forward

    by  • March 10, 2013 • Users • 12 Comments

    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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