• 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

    Kate in KDE 3.5.4

    by  • August 2, 2006 • Common

    Finally, KDE 3.5.4 is out! We were able to fix a lot of issues in Kate and the bug curves went noticeably down. Thanks to all contributors for the nice KDE release

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    Kate: Shortcomings of .kateconfig file

    by  • July 23, 2006 • Common

    Assume you have a .kateconfig file optimized for C++ code that replaces tabs on save. Now you open a Makefile that contains tabs (due to its strict syntax). If you save the Makefile in kate, the tabs then are replaced which results in a corrupted Makefile. In other words: The .kateconfig file applies to...

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    Indentation and Coding Style

    by  • July 23, 2006 • Common

    kdelibs will have coding style conventions. In general. this is not a bad idea. Our 45528 slocs in KatePart all use a consistent indent-width of 2 spaces. Changing this does not really make sense – ok, if svn praise -w (sure, we never need svn blame in our code finally works, we can discuss...

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    Kate Project Plugin

    by  • July 20, 2006 • Common

    It is not a secret that removing Kate’s project manager in KDE 3.5 was not the right thing to do. It seems a lot of people used it and we got many complaints about this decision. That also shows that it is hard go get feedback about what users are really using. If a...

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