Planet Kate
Kate Developer Sprint
Nå ja, det er noget siden, men jeg var til Kate Developer Sprint i Darmstadt i april måned.
Selvom jeg havde besluttet mig for at tage afsted for længe side, havde jeg ikke fået bestilt en flybillet i ordentlig tid, hvilket betød at jeg dels måtte mellemlande både ud og hjem i Zurich, dels at det blev noget dyrere, og endelig at jeg ikke kunne få de bedste rejsetidspunkter.
Men jeg kom afsted, og det var et rigtig godt møde, hvor der blev taget en masse gode beslutninger om hvad vi vil med Kate i den kommende tid.
Og jeg fik fornøjelsen af at møde endnu nogle af mine med-nørder som jeg har kendt i årevis men aldrig set IRL, som man siger. Og det er en fornøjelse! Vi var 9, deriblandt Christoph Cullmann, Joseph Wenninger og jeg som var de tre første udviklere der tog fat for over 8 år siden, og Dominik Haumann som er kommet til for nogle år siden og er en meget stabil kraft, og som gjorde arbejdet med at få arrangeret mødet.
Mødet som blev holdt i lånte lokaler tilhørende basyskom var støttet af KDEs formelle organisation, som betalte for hotelværelser og delvis transport, og der blev også sørget for en del af maden.
I alt en rigtig god og givende weekend, selvom de lange rejsetider og ustandselige gennemlysninger i lufthavne er trættende.
Tag aldrig en cykelpumpe med ud at flyve, sikkerhedspersonalet tror hver gang at det er en farlig skyder… ;)
Categories: Planet Kate
Offline for 3 months
I don't have internet the next 3 months. Maybe here and there at some point. That means I can not review the techbase changes. Also, I'll be rather silent wrt kate/kwrite.
Categories: Planet Kate
Do you understand the word HTML?
During the Kate developer meeting we also thought about simplifying KWrite and how to make the decision whether KWrite should be launched in full featured mode or in a stripped version. ...well, and we found a really funny idea:
Note, that this would even work, the question would be rather annoying, though :) The solution right now is to always start KWrite in a simple mode. Mostly only actions are hidden in the menus (@distributors: kdelibs/kate/data/katepartsimpleui.rc), but you can also change c++ code at Kate part level, as there are some functions:
PS: Tackat, we came up with this image before our phone call. That's why it was really funny when you said HTML is something that should not be removed. hehe... :)
Note, that this would even work, the question would be rather annoying, though :) The solution right now is to always start KWrite in a simple mode. Mostly only actions are hidden in the menus (@distributors: kdelibs/kate/data/katepartsimpleui.rc), but you can also change c++ code at Kate part level, as there are some functions:
- bool KateDocument::simpleMode() (kate part internal), and
- bool KTextEditor::Editor::simpleMode() (along with setSimpleMode())
PS: Tackat, we came up with this image before our phone call. That's why it was really funny when you said HTML is something that should not be removed. hehe... :)
Categories: Planet Kate
Kate Meeting: Day 1 and 2
The Kate Developer Meeting was a productive weekend and once more shows how important the developer sprints are. The summary will be on the dot shortly. Work already started on several topics. As everyone want screenshots, here we go: The new annotation interface available now in KTextEditor can be use to e.g. show svn annotations directly in kate:
basysKom's coffee maching is simply the best: It can do everything, you just have to press the right key combos:
basysKom's coffee maching is simply the best: It can do everything, you just have to press the right key combos:
Categories: Planet Kate
KDevelop - UI revolution
I'm currently at the KDevelop sprint at the Trolltech offices in Munich, Germany. We had a productive weekend of talks to bring everyone up to speed with the current state of KDevelop, and while what's going on under the hood is very exciting, it currently suffers from a kluged together, buggy and incomplete UI. For the first day of the programming several of us are working on improving the user interface, and it's making progress slowly but surely. Stay tuned for a screenshot / screencast when we have it looking just right
Categories: Planet Kate
Kate Meeting: Day 0
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. If you are interested in contributing to Kate, just join #kate on irc.kde.org. I'm looking forward to the next two days :)
Categories: Planet Kate
How to compile and run KDE4
...or rather how to setup a KDE4 development environment. There already is a howto on techbase, but I'm using my own scripts since years, and they work just fine. I've made them public in my user space on techbase: User:Dhaumann/Compiling KDE4. The howto is very short but complete. It does not have any troubleshooting sections. This is intentional: If you have any errors, fix them and rerun the scripts. Happy compiling :)
Categories: Planet Kate
How to compile and run KDE4
...or rather how to setup a KDE4 development environment. There already is a howto on techbase, but I'm using my own scripts since years, and they work just fine. I've made them public in my user space on techbase: User:Dhaumann/Compiling KDE4. The howto is very short but complete. It does not have any troubleshooting sections. This is intentional: If you have any errors, fix them and rerun the scripts. Happy compiling :)
Categories: Planet Kate
Feature Plan on TechBase
The Planned Features list is up and running again. It just needs to be filled. If you are a KDE developer you should consider to add your planned features to the list :) There are three templates you can use:
- {{FeatureDone|project|description|email-address|first-name name}}
- {{FeatureInProgress|project|description|email-address|first-name name}}
- {{FeatureTodo|project|description|email-address|first-name name}}
Categories: Planet Kate
Feature Plan on TechBase
The Planned Features list is up and running again. It just needs to be filled. If you are a KDE developer you should consider to add your planned features to the list :) There are three templates you can use:
- {{FeatureDone|project|description|email-address|first-name name}}
- {{FeatureInProgress|project|description|email-address|first-name name}}
- {{FeatureTodo|project|description|email-address|first-name name}}
Categories: Planet Kate
Growing articles on TechBase
Right now TechBase has content in 19 languages. Sometimes articles grow bigger over time. How to build KDE4 is the prefect example. Here is a list of pages about building KDE4 (not counting translations):
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Arch Linux
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Ark Linux
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Cygwin
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Fedora
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/FreeBSD
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Gentoo
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Kubuntu and Debian
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Mac OS X
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Mac OS X 10.5 issues
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Mandriva
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Prerequisites
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Troubleshooting
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/3rd-party libraries
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Building DBus
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Building KDESupport Libraries
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Building Qt 4
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Environment
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/GCC And MinGW
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Littlecms.patch
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/MS Visual Studio
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/MinGW Build Tips
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Windows Vista
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/additional libraries
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/kdesvn-build
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/openSUSE
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4 Alpha 1
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4 Alpha 2
- 1 page »Distribution Specials«, instead of 11 separated pages?
- a cleanup instead of a split, if the page grows more and more?
- talk pages sometimes fit better?
Categories: Planet Kate
Growing articles on TechBase
Right now TechBase has content in 19 languages. Sometimes articles grow bigger over time. How to build KDE4 is the prefect example. Here is a list of pages about building KDE4 (not counting translations):
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Arch Linux
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Ark Linux
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Cygwin
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Fedora
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/FreeBSD
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Gentoo
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Kubuntu and Debian
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Mac OS X
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Mac OS X 10.5 issues
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Mandriva
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Prerequisites
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Troubleshooting
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/3rd-party libraries
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Building DBus
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Building KDESupport Libraries
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Building Qt 4
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Environment
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/GCC And MinGW
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Littlecms.patch
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/MS Visual Studio
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/MinGW Build Tips
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/Windows Vista
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/additional libraries
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/kdesvn-build
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4/openSUSE
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4 Alpha 1
- Getting Started/Build/KDE4 Alpha 2
- 1 page »Distribution Specials«, instead of 11 separated pages?
- a cleanup instead of a split, if the page grows more and more?
- talk pages sometimes fit better?
Categories: Planet Kate
TechBase: Contributing...
How you can help to make maintaining TechBase easier:
- login before you edit pages. Reviewing an edit of a logged in user is often as easy as "ah, user X, his content is ok anyway, next one..."
- do not use the "I-form". Who is 'I'? Noone knows. Especially not years later. Using 'I' in talk pages is perfectly fine. But please avoid it in articles :)
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TechBase: Contributing...
How you can help to make maintaining TechBase easier:
- login before you edit pages. Reviewing an edit of a logged in user is often as easy as "ah, user X, his content is ok anyway, next one..."
- do not use the "I-form". Who is 'I'? Noone knows. Especially not years later. Using 'I' in talk pages is perfectly fine. But please avoid it in articles :)
Categories: Planet Kate
Reviewing TechBase Changes
KDE's techbase wiki is pretty much alive and I'm especially surprised that the translation system works really well. Of course there is some maintenance work to do and I'm reviewing every change so far.
I was away from Dec. 27th until 4th of January. Unfortunately, the "recent changes" feature allows me to see only the changes from 1st January till today. So if you have the RSS/Atom feed please review the changes from 27th until 31th of December and fix spam/typos/whatever you think needs to be fixed! :)
I was away from Dec. 27th until 4th of January. Unfortunately, the "recent changes" feature allows me to see only the changes from 1st January till today. So if you have the RSS/Atom feed please review the changes from 27th until 31th of December and fix spam/typos/whatever you think needs to be fixed! :)
Categories: Planet Kate
Reviewing TechBase Changes
KDE's techbase wiki is pretty much alive and I'm especially surprised that the translation system works really well. Of course there is some maintenance work to do and I'm reviewing every change so far.
I was away from Dec. 27th until 4th of January. Unfortunately, the "recent changes" feature allows me to see only the changes from 1st January till today. So if you have the RSS/Atom feed please review the changes from 27th until 31th of December and fix spam/typos/whatever you think needs to be fixed! :)
I was away from Dec. 27th until 4th of January. Unfortunately, the "recent changes" feature allows me to see only the changes from 1st January till today. So if you have the RSS/Atom feed please review the changes from 27th until 31th of December and fix spam/typos/whatever you think needs to be fixed! :)
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