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So there I am, a confirmed Kate user, and now I need to find my way around a codebase of over 100,000 files using GNU ID utils. The rather crude answer for Kate 3 was to write a wrapper around the lid(1) utility and the DCOP scripting interface of Kate, all driven from the built-in Konsole. The result was clunky but somewhat usable. But Kate 3? In 2010? Because the version of KDE on our primary development environment is the venerable KDE 3. Read More

Like last summer I am mentoring a student working on Kate’s Vi mode this summer. This year’s student is Vegard Øye from Oslo, Norway. I’ll let him introduce himself: My name is Vegard Øye. I am a computer science student at the University of Oslo, Norway. I also have a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Sør-Trøndelag University College in Trondheim, where I programmed for integrated circuits. It was a lot of fun, so I decided to embark on a grade with an even larger emphasis on programming. Read More

One year more passed and the next Akademy will soon open its doors. Was never before in Tallinn or Estonia, will be an interesting visit. Hope to meet again a lot of old and new KDE people. Didn’t code a lot at all since last years meeting, too busy to finalize my phd thesis. Hope to get more time for Kate in the next months again ;) And at the meeting. Read More

I’ve been using and contributing to KDE on-and-off for a while, but our friends over in Gnome land were already busy by the time I got into the game. So why did I conceptually commit to KDE, and thence Kate? Consistency. I grew up on VAX/VMS where it was possible – and even easy – to mix Ada code with C and Pascal, mix in a CLI that used the standard parser, generate error messages that looked and were like every other message in the system. Read More

Perhaps a bit early, but typical german, me and Dominik booked our flights to Tallinn. Lets hope we will have a lot fun there and meet old and new friends ;) See you all, at Tallinn.

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 video if you visit our blog page here. Direct HD link to YouTube here. Read More

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at home this weekend. [][2]Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie 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 develop in (Objective) C(++). For me C was one of my starting languages for my real programming work and even today I analyze the whole day software written in C for embedded systems that control our modern world, be it the flight control of airplanes or engine control of cars. 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!

Some days ago, Dominik implemented a line modification system in the KatePart. For all who don’t know what that means at all (like me before the DS 2011), here some screenshots. First, starting with a fresh loaded file: Now, lets write some lines: Next, after saving: Now, lets change some stuff again: Awesome :) First I thought: Why to hell do I need such a feature? But after using it some days now, I think it is really VERY useful. Read More

Soon the GSoC projects of this year are over again. I would like to thank our two students Adrian Lungu and Svyatoslav Kuzmich for their work! They both did a nice job and improved both the code folding and the vi mode a lot. Thanks to them and I hope they stick around in our project, more help is always welcome ;) And thanks to Google for sponsoring their efforts.