Since several releases, Kate Part has scripting support through javascript. So far, it seems it is not much used by users. Still, I stumbled over two extensions: jump to previous / next paragraph base64 encoding If you have more user defined scripts, it would be nice if you let us know! For KDE5, we plan [...]
Read more →Seems the Trolls made it, qt-project.org is online Grats.
Read more →Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at home this weekend. As the creator of the C programming language and one of the main developers of Unix, he impacted the life of me and other developers a lot. Even today, 30 years after their initial creation, many people work on Unix like systems (like Linux or Mac OS) and [...]
Read more →Finally some sustainable announcements about the future of Qt and its open governance project: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ I hope this will be well received and we will see yet another increase in contributions to our Qt/KDE ecosystem Thanks for all the effort to all people who made this possible!
Read more →Christoph and me cleaned up the visualization of the code folding for KDE 4.8 a bit. In the snapshot, the left image shows the old behavior, and the right one shows the new behavior. The background highlighting appears as soon as you hover over the code folding bar. We hope you like it Mockups of [...]
Read more →Some days ago, Dominik implemented a line modification system in the KatePart. For all who don’t know what that means at all (like me before the DS 2011), here some screenshots. First, starting with a fresh loaded file: Now, lets write some lines: Next, after saving: Now, lets change some stuff again: Awesome First I [...]
Read more →Once in a while, there are really interesting blogs, presentations and reports about how to do things right as software developer. This is a quick list of links about API design and coding style: Designing Qt-Style C++ APIs (Qt4), by Matthias Ettrich, 2005 API Design Principles, extended version of (1), Qt Developer Network (Nokia) The [...]
Read more →Soon the GSoC projects of this year are over again. I would like to thank our two students Adrian Lungu and Svyatoslav Kuzmich for their work! They both did a nice job and improved both the code folding and the vi mode a lot. Thanks to them and I hope they stick around in our [...]
Read more →After adding the new design to the Kate homepage, I got some feedback about broken fonts and other stuff. Most should be fixed now, e.g. the “The Team” page now looks kind of okay again. In addition, we now have some nice feed display with the latest commits and overall a bit cleanup page. For [...]
Read more →Hi everyone! So… this GSoC season came to its end. This week is the official deadline for the projects and, happily, my project is done, but my collaboration with Kate is just starting, so I’ll see you around As I mentioned in the previous post, I used this last week for some fine [...]
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