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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. 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: Read More

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. Read More

I want to introduce you my GSoC-2011 project. I was working on improvement the vi input mode for the Kate part. There are a lot of improvements for normal mode. Now it’s able to use jump list by pressing ctrl-i/ctrl-o in normal mode like in vim. And now not only registers but also marks, and jumps stored in the config of the session. H, M and L commands moves cursor to the first(Home), Middle and Last line of the screen. To go to the any percent of the document you can use the % command by typing the number of percent(1-100) before it. gk and gj motions will make you able to go visual(display) lines up and down. It’s useful when you using line wrap. Read More

For me, it (still) feels very unnatural to talk about us as KDE. I’m still thinking in terms of the KDE community; and the KDE Project releases the KDE Desktop (or just KDE). I’m also fine with the KDE Workspace and other specialized variants. However, the login manager now also shows the term KDE Plasma Workspace. In my very own humble opinion, this is already too much of buzz words. Read More

Hi everyone! Kate’s new code folding was merged with the master branch. :) You can try it by yourself. If you do find any bugs, please send a bug report on KDE’s bug tracker or leave a comment here. I will use a test unit to solve those bugs, so I will need a full backtrace and some info to help me replicate it. Please notice that there are no new features added yet – just the basic code folding. Read More

Hey! The new code folding is taking shape. Actually it is implemented. :) The next step will be testing it (and debugging, if necessary) and implementing some new features. Also there are some keyboard shortcuts that didn’t worked so well on the previous version and they need to be fixed too. If you want to help us with the testing, you can download my clone and play a little with code folding. Also, if you have some ideas about the new features that Kate’s folding should have, let me know. If it is possible and there is time, they will be implemented. Greetings, Adrian Read More

I normally enjoy StarCraft 2 in the evening a bit or like now, if it is raining and I have no fun in any more real work. But just now and some days ago, it has again proven, KDE > StarCraft 2. Just again, StarCraft 2 (played with wine, thanks a lot wine team, you do a great job!) got sluggish and then terminated. A quick dmesg call shows the cause. Like last time, the OOM killer got me. Read More

Hi! I bring good news about Kate’s folding today. The algorithm was implemented and tested successfully. ;) As I mentioned in the previous article, I implemented it in a new (simpler) project. It is a Qt project (developed using Qt Creator) and you can find it in my Kate clone, “tree_alg” folder. Actually, I have implemented two folding algorithms: one that uses a tree that changes itself dynamically whenever you insert or delete a node, and one based on stack that rebuilds the entire folding tree whenever you insert or delete a node. I needed two algorithms because I wanted to implement an automatic testing mechanism and for that I needed a way to test the output. The second algorithm was easier to be implemented and it was very stable (bug-less) from the beginning, so it was great to use it for my testing. Read More