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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.

On KDE 4.8.0, there is no way to disable the line modification markers. In KDE >= 4.8.1, you can disable them as follows by first closing Kate and then typing kwriteconfig --file katerc --group "Kate View Defaults" --key "Line Modification" --type bool false To enable it again, close Kate and run kwriteconfig --file katerc --group "Kate View Defaults" --key "Line Modification" --type bool true However, this only affects Kate; not KWrite, Kile, KDevelop or any other application using Kate Part. If you want to disable the markers for KWrite, Kile or KDevelop, use kwriterc, kilerc or kdeveloprc instead of katerc. Read More

Since several releases, Kate Part has scripting support through javascript. So far, it seems it is not much used by users. Still, I stumbled over two extensions: jump to previous / next paragraph base64 encoding If you have more user defined scripts, it would be nice if you let us know! For KDE5, we plan to extend this, so applications like Kile or KDevelop can reuse Kate’s internal code. Read More

About half a year ago, Kate 3.7 was released as part of KDE 4.7. Now that KDE 4.8 is about to be released, let’s have a look at what Kate brings in KDE 4.8. Bug Fixes According to KDE’s bug tracker, about 190 issues were solved. Taking a closer look, lots of small issues were fixed, amongst them: improved printing support (report 1, report 2, report 3, report 4, report 5, and more) syntax highlighting files added and updated zoom in/out with ctrl+mouse wheel, scroll over folding area wrong active view when resuming session with split view ambiguous shortcuts in file system browser resolved improved GDB plugin we heavily cleaned up our bug database (bugs + wishes): Heavily Reworked Code Folding As part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2011, the code folding code was improved. The main goal was to eliminate wrong folding behavior and fix all crashes while making the code more maintainable. We are quite happy with the results: Given the robust behavior, it now was possible to remember code folding state past sessions and during document reload. So folded regions are not lost anymore. Read More

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

Recently, the Kate project celebrated its 10th anniversary. The gource visualization of 10 years Kate development (2001 to 2011) looks as follows. Have fun :-) PS: In case you do not see any video, click here. PPS:Launch gource on kdelibs, that’s much more interesting!

Seems the Trolls made it, qt-project.org is online ;) Grats.

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(++). Read More

With some of my gimp skills, I updated Kate’s feature list. Hope you like the face-lift :-)