• Posts Tagged ‘planet’

    RFC: Exporting JavaScript API

    by  • May 12, 2012 • Developers • 4 Comments

    Since quite some time, Kate Part has build-in scripting support through JavaScript. Our plan is to make this API public, so other applications like Kile, Kate App and KDevelop can use it. However, we are currently unsure how to best implement it, so this is a rfc to get feedback. The bindings for a Kate...

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    Crash through D-Bus calls

    by  • April 6, 2012 • Developers • 8 Comments

    Years ago, there was a blog on the planet with the title “How to crash (almost) every Qt/KDE Application and how to fix it“. In short, if you are showing a dialog, KWin prevents you from closing the application by clicking on the close button in the window decoration. However, through D-Bus, you can...

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    On Removing an Element from a List

    by  • March 17, 2012 • Developers • 6 Comments

    Recently, there was a very good blog about The Importance of Mentoring. It was mentioned that the 3200 slocs of the gsoc projects could be cut down to 500 slocs, doing exactly the same thing. While hunting some crashes in the new code folding code from the last gsoc project, I obviously had a...

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