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After adding the new design to the Kate homepage, I got some feedback about broken fonts and other stuff. Most should be fixed now, e.g. the “The Team” page now looks kind of okay again. In addition, we now have some nice feed display with the latest commits and overall a bit cleanup page. For mobile devices, like my Android phone, we now have WPtouch installed, which provides some rather nice layout for small screens (but allows easy switch back to normal layout, too). Read More

2021 Update: Kate's current mascot is Kate the Cyber Woodpecker. Kate’s icon is quiet nice, but for our website and other stuff, it would be really cool to have some eye catcher and something to know: yeah, that is Kate :) As Kate is obviously a woman, at least in most languages, it would be quiet nice if some artist could come up with a painted or rendered one to put on our page. Read More

Kate has since more than one year a new WordPress powered site. During last years Akademy, Dominik and I installed it and filled it with first life. It replaced the old Drupal powered site, that Anders did set up years ago. Thanks again to Anders here, for the work he did on the old page. But since the day Anders didn’t have that much time any more for Kate development, it somehow lost its drive (as Dominik an I are not at all capable to work with Drupal, whereas Anders really was an well practiced Drupal admininstrator). Read More

Kate (App + Part + KWrite) is down to 200 bugs, thanks a lot to all people helping with this effort, e.g. Dominik, Erlend, Adrian, … Perhaps others want to join, we have still a lot bugs and many are quiet some work (and stuff like BiDi errors are not that nice to fix, if you have actually no clue about the used languages :/)

It’s been a nice week here in Berlin at the Desktop summit. I have even got some coding done. A command I often missed from Vim was the gq command that re-formats text based on your text width setting. For example, if you want to stick to a sixty-columns layout, you often have to re-format the text when adding or removing something, like in this screenshot where some text has been surrounded by HTML tags: Read More

Lets fight the bugs (or here bugs fighting each other, from de.wikipedia). Dominik and I did a nice bug squashing here at Berlin Desktop Summit 2011. We already met some weeks ago to hunt down bugs in Kate at Saarbrücken, but this additional time really helped a lot. The progress of the last 365 days look quiet promising. We actually really fixed quiet a lot of them and sorted out no longer valid ones. Read More

We almost missed it, but 10 years ago Kate was included in KDE’s CVS repository and shipped the first time with KDE 2.2. Details about the history can be found here. So Happy Birthday Kate! And Kate in KDE 2.2 looked like this: In comparison, Kate nowadays looks like this (KDE 4.7):

Thanks a lot to Intel for passing around the ExoPC at the AppUp workshop yesterday. Its kind of nice hardware to start developing for Intel based tablets, whereas for normal use, the battery life and weight is kind of problematic. I really like the idea to be able to write nice and shiny Qt applications which run both on MeeGo and Windows and the AppUp store is really open in respect to allowing distribute open source software. Read More

The “External Tools” plugin is one of the oldest plugins of Kate. A big hug to Anders Lund for writing it years ago, a lot of people enjoyed using it. It allows the user to specify own commands (aka snippets of shell programs) to be executed with the text of the current document or the current file. Basic stuff you can do with it: Create you a little command that shows an Git/SVN/… diff of current file Sort the file with command line sort program (or more advanced scripts) Pipe the text of the document into your most loved perl script Unfortunately there is no maintainer for it at the moment. Read More

Hi! Yesterday I received a comment on my previous blog post that it would be nice to give some more technical details about the folding. Initially, this was a comment response, but because it proved to be pretty interesting and more of you read the articles than the comments, I decided to post it as an article :) Here are some details that you could find interesting: Kate’s folding is based on a real / virtual line system. Read More