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 →Now, the categories in the “Colors” tab are painted like in System Settings (top: new, bottom: old): Thanks to Rafael Fernández López for relicensing the code of SystemSettings’ CategoryDrawer under LGPLv{2,3}.
Read more →This week, Kate Part received an update of the “Colors” tab in the settings dialog, available in KDE 4.9. The major features include configurable colors: search highlight, replace highlight and modified line colors – finally possibility to always use colors from the KDE color scheme. the implementation works in a way that at some...
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