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In the past, KTextEditor notified the user about externally modified files with a modal dialog. Many users were annoyed by this behavior. Starting with KDE Frameworks 5.27, KTextEditor will show an embedded widget for external changes, see:

Dominik and me got the Akademy 2016 Award for our work on Kate and KTextEditor. I want to pass that on to all other contributors of both the application and the framework: You all rock and people seem to appreciate our work! Lets keep on improving our stuff and providing people with a very usable editor and editor component for various use cases. Read More

Arrived at Berlin for Akademy/QtCon 2016, too ;=) Already met some other KDE & Kate people, lets see how the week goes.

I was contacted by Buovjaga from the LibreOffice QA team to spread the word about the current bug triaging efforts going on. Therefore now a short guest block about that ;=) Thanks to Buovjaga for trying to get some public interest in this important aspect of open source work: handling our flood of bugs! Free software needs more contributors from the non-coding user community. The problem is that there is no scientifically proven method for attracting them. Read More

This years topic for the Randa meeting, was multi-platform end-user application development. That was a golden opportunity to work on the Windows and Mac versions. One thing that happened was that the icon.rcc file generation is moved to the breeze-icons repository in stead of doing it separately for every application. The icon.rcc file loading was moved to KIconThemes so that all applications linking to it don’t have to invent the wheel again. This would not have been so easy if we hadn’t been at the same place discussing things face to face. Read More

The KTextEditor Framework just got a new features for the next KDE Frameworks 5.24 release: A Text Preview on the vertical scrollbar. If enabled in the options, the KTextEditor now shows a preview of the text when the mouse hovers over the scrollbar. The feature is available both when the minimap is used and also when the standard scrollbar is used. The text preview is only visible when vertical scrolling is possible. Read More

During the Randa sprint an 13 year old bug was fixed :P I myself moved it to kxmlgui (out of Kate/KWrites’s harm, good to delegate stuff away :) in 2003 and since then we got a lot of duplicates but never somebody got the time to track it down. (333 votes for it, really nice number) Now, after 13 years, it got done (and yet another chance that a bug becomes a sentient intelligence has vanished ;=) Read More

KDE applications providing Windows installers can now be additionally listed in the Chocolatey software repository on an dedicated KDE profile. If you want to be added to this profile with your application, contact kde-windows@kde.org. At the moment, you can find digiKam, Kate & Krita. The profile allows an quick overview about the KDE applications that are available. This is a nice addition to the downloads provided via download.kde.org or the application homepages and increases the visibility of our applications on Windows. Read More

I updated again the Kate/KWrite application bundles following the new guide on KDE on Mac. With the same guide, other application developers should be able to create stand-alone application bundles for Mac OS X, too. Btw., the guide is on a wiki page, feel free to enhance the documentation, I doubt it is optimal ATM. What needs to be solved to make it easier: At the moment, the guide uses a stock Qt as obtainable from qt.io but unfortunately, macdeployqt needs to be patched to deploy non-qt plugins Read More

We used the nice weather for some small trip near Randa between hacking ;=) But beside getting a bit fresh air, we did other nice things like fixing together with David Faure of Frameworks fame the issue “how to get automagically icons loaded if you want to bundle them in your installer/app bundle”, see the change: “Add support for loading and using an icontheme in a RCC file automatically.” Read More