Years ago, there was a blog on the planet with the title “How to crash (almost) every Qt/KDE Application and how to fix it“. In short, if you are showing a dialog, KWin prevents you from closing the application by clicking on the close button in the window decoration. However, through D-Bus, you can...
Read more →Recently, there was a very good blog about The Importance of Mentoring. It was mentioned that the 3200 slocs of the gsoc projects could be cut down to 500 slocs, doing exactly the same thing. While hunting some crashes in the new code folding code from the last gsoc project, I obviously had a...
Read more →In KDE SC 4.9, Kate Part will have an option in the Open/Save config tab called Append newline at end of file on save By default (and Kate tradition), this option is off. You can also use the document variable (modeline) newline-at-eof , either in the file itself, in a .kateconfig file, or...
Read more →As already mentioned, Kate Part much better chooses colors from the default KDE color palette configured in System Settings in upcoming KDE SC 4.9. As teaser, here are some examples – hope you like it. Default “Oxygen” Color Schema Default “Obsidian Coast” Color Schema Dark “Vim” Color Schema Note: The yellow search background comes...
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