• Kate Meeting: Day 0

    by  • April 11, 2008

    Finally it all begins: Anders and Joseph arrived at basysKom and we’ve started to discuss some things we want to do for KDE 4.1. Later, we are going to meet with the rest of the attendees in a restaurant to get to know each other. The official start of the meeting is tomorrow morning....

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    Kate Developer Sprint 2008

    by  • March 25, 2008

    In April there will be a Kate Developer Sprint, similar to previous sprints for Decibel, Akonadi, KDevelop and others. This is a great opportunity as developers interested in development of KDE’s text editor will discuss what to do to make Kate the best text editor on earth. This also means lots of polishing so...

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    Encapsulation is not Information Hiding

    by  • December 21, 2007

    As food for thought and in reply to Why Encapsulation is a Good Thing it’s interesting to take a closer look. What does encapsulation mean exactly, and what can you do with it? Maybe what you really want is Information Hiding? …and encapsulation is just a way of possibly achieving it? If you are...

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    Memory Leak Continued

    by  • November 22, 2007

    There was some confusion with regard to my last blog about leaking memory. Suppose the ui_mywidget.h files looks like this: class Ui_Widget { public: QGridLayout *gridLayout; QGroupBox *groupBox; QGridLayout *gridLayout1; QListWidget *listWidget; QSpacerItem *spacerItem; QPushButton *pushButton; void setupUi(QWidget *Widget); void retranslateUi(QWidget *Widget); }; Of course, those 6 QObject derived classes are deleted. But the...

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