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    Passive Notifications in Kate Part

    by  • November 6, 2012 • Developers, Users • 14 Comments

    In KDE 4.10, Kate Part got a new MessageInterface. The idea of this interface is to have a standardized way of showing notifications in a non-intrusive way, similar to how KMessageWidget in kdelibs works. Using the MessageInterface is extremly easy, for instance to show a quick notification, you write KTextEditor::Message *message = new KTextEditor::Message(KTextEditor::Message::Positive,...

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    Loading Remote Files

    by  • November 5, 2012 • Developers, Users • 7 Comments

    Loading huge files over the internet may take quite a long time. In KDE 4.10, Kate Part will show a passive message after 1 second that tells you the file is still being loaded, and, if wanted, the user can abort the loading process. It looks like this: This also fixes bug #128273. Again, cookies...

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    Contribute to Kate

    by  • October 28, 2012 • Developers • 13 Comments

    Currently we are at the Kate/KDevelop sprint in Vienna. Christoph and me took the time to look a bit around in the net for Kate, and more or less accidently stumbled over quite a lot of extensions by our users. Here are some examples: script to jump to next/previous paragraph several really good highlighting...

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