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,...
Read more →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...
Read more →During our long bug hunting and fixing sprint I came along some nasty BiDi or Unicode related bugs. I and most others in the Kate team are not really able to fix such issues We lack both the knowledge of the underlying techniques and are not able to write/read any language that really uses complex...
Read more →One of the results of the Kate/KDevelop sprint in Vienna is the new “MiniMap” that can be used instead of the vertical scrollbar. I came to the sprint with a black and white version of it for the symbols viewer, but got encouraged to integrate it to the core. The result, in cooperation with...
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