This blog is mainly about documenting the process how to run Kate Part’s test regression suite and probably not much use for other developers. Step I: Setup the environment create the file ~/.testkateregression. The content of this file is a single line pointing to the folder of the checkout of the test regression suite...
Read more →Last year I’ve blogged about the missing system monitor with the three bars for the panel and about its port to Plasma. Meanwhile other developers also did a port called System Status. In a collaboration with them we finally have the applet back in KDE’s subversion, the name is now “System Load Viewer” and...
Read more →The Kate Editor Component (also called KatePart) has its own undo/redo system. It did not change much since KDE2 and basically it is very simple. Meanwhile there are classes for undo/redo support in Qt as well. In fact both systems are very similar. This article focuses on Kate Part’s system. Text Operations First we...
Read more →This Akademy’s Kate changes include fix: drag & drop of text code completion: only show group header if the group name is not empty reintroduction of buffer blocks in Kate’s document buffer (one buffer contains up to 4096 lines). The blocks build a linked list. Editing a 500 MB file kind of works now...
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