Developers 

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).

Hi everyone!

 
So… this GSoC season came to its end. This week is the official deadline for the projects and, happily, my project is done, but my collaboration with Kate is just starting, so I’ll see you around :)
 
As I mentioned in the previous post, I used this last week for some fine tuning and to close the bugs that slipped the previous scan. The folding-related bugs remained on bug.kde.org are highlight related too, so I can’t do much about them. The folding submenu was changed, so we can add more features into the feature. You can find the old and the new folding’s submenus in this article. You can see that the new folding has new features and it’s more flexible. Now you can fold/unfold a specific level entirely, or you can fold/unfold the node that contains the cursor. I have one regret regarding these new features: we couldn’t find some key-shortcuts for them :(

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.

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). The current WordPress site is much more usable for us, as we know WordPress much better than Drupal. The initial import of the content of the old Drupal page was kind of painful, but most stuff was moved over even during Akademy, just some outdated howtos and faqs got purged.

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 :/)

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.

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.

Hi everyone!

Another season of Google Summer of Code is approaching its end. :(

I feel pretty bad about that, because I enjoy it and I love working on Kate.

I used the last two weeks to solve all the bugs and requests (folding related) from bugs.kde.org. If you find any folded related bugs, please send the report using bugs.kde.org and I will solve them (the warranty period is unlimited, so you don’t have to worry about that ;) )