Since several releases, Kate Part has scripting support through javascript. So far, it seems it is not much used by users. Still, I stumbled over two extensions: jump to previous / next paragraph base64 encoding If you have more user defined scripts, it would be nice if you let us know! For KDE5, we plan [...]
Read more →In response to Kate in KDE 4.8, there was this reply on reddit: Does this mean the stupid search/replace functionality has finally been fixed? Once the search/replace marks/colors text there’s no way to clear it so when you’re replacing keywords the last one will be permanently marked with background color unless you reload the file or [...]
Read more →About half a year ago, Kate 3.7 was released as part of KDE 4.7. Now that KDE 4.8 is about to be released, let’s have a look at what Kate brings in KDE 4.8. Bug Fixes According to KDE’s bug tracker, about 190 issues were solved. Taking a closer look, lots of small issues were [...]
Read more →Dominik’s video is cool, but we agreed that perhaps the names should be around and we can have a bit higher resolution to make them readable Therefore here is a second take of the video, this time with names and 720p. (I have no luck with music, therefore, silence) You only get to see the [...]
Read more →Recently, the Kate project celebrated its 10th anniversary. The gource visualization of 10 years Kate development (2001 to 2011) looks as follows. Have fun PS: In case you do not see any video, click here. PPS:Launch gource on kdelibs, that’s much more interesting!
Read more →Seems the Trolls made it, qt-project.org is online Grats.
Read more →At the desktop summit, many contributors got a ExoPC from Intel, but the software on it was quite a disappointment. Meanwhile, there is an official release of Plasma Active that fills the gap. So I sat down and installed it on the ExoPC. It really works quite nice and smooth. Applications like Amarok and a [...]
Read more →Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at home this weekend. As the creator of the C programming language and one of the main developers of Unix, he impacted the life of me and other developers a lot. Even today, 30 years after their initial creation, many people work on Unix like systems (like Linux or Mac OS) and [...]
Read more →With some of my gimp skills, I updated Kate’s feature list. Hope you like the face-lift
Read more →Finally some sustainable announcements about the future of Qt and its open governance project: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ I hope this will be well received and we will see yet another increase in contributions to our Qt/KDE ecosystem Thanks for all the effort to all people who made this possible!
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