• 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

    Crash through D-Bus calls

    by  • April 6, 2012 • Developers • 8 Comments

    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...

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    On Removing an Element from a List

    by  • March 17, 2012 • Developers • 6 Comments

    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...

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    Append Newline at End of File

    by  • March 12, 2012 • Users • 0 Comments

    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...

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    Some Kate Color Schemas

    by  • March 7, 2012 • Users • 20 Comments

    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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