• 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

    You, KDE!

    by  • July 25, 2011 • KDE • 14 Comments

    For me, it (still) feels very unnatural to talk about us as KDE. I’m still thinking in terms of the KDE community; and the KDE Project releases the KDE Desktop (or just KDE). I’m also fine with the KDE Workspace and other specialized variants. However, the login manager now also shows the term KDE Plasma Workspace. In...

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    Kate Modeline Editor

    by  • July 23, 2011 • Developers, Users • 9 Comments

    As you may know, Kate supports the concept of document variables, also known as modelines. In short, document variables can be used to set Kate settings local to a file. For instance, this is useful for settings specific indenter options than the ones defined in Kate’s settings dialog. Assume you work on two projects,...

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    Kate in KDE 4.7

    by  • July 9, 2011 • Developers, Users • 4 Comments

    Now that the next version of the KDE platform is branched, it’s time to have a look at all the changes in Kate in KDE 4.7. More than 150 wishes and issues have been resolved. A detailed list of the resolved  issues can be found in the KDE bug tracker. All Kate development is...

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    Bug Squashing

    by  • June 26, 2011 • Developers, Users • 3 Comments

    We’ve managed to push our bugs down from ~430 to ~310 during the last two days. Some bugs are not valid anymore, but lots of bugs also really have been fixed. So in KDE 4.7 we will have the best Kate release ever

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