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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

With the next Applications 16.08 release, Kate5’s tabs will be movable with the mouse. This was a feature request for quite some time, which is now fixed.For the record, the animated gif was created with the following two commands: ffmpeg -f alsa -f x11grab -r 30 -s 680x385 -i :0.0+0,0 -threads 0 output%04d.png convert -delay 1/30 -loop 0 -layers OptimizeFrame -size 680x385 -fuzz 2% output*.png output.gif Much more work is going on at the Randa spring currently held in Switzerland. Would be nice if you support us ;)

During the Mac OS X platform meeting here at Randa, the point was made that the current build documentation for Mac OS X is a bit lacking, as e.g. the steps to create an application bundle are only documented somewhere for Kate, Krita, KDevelop, … but in no central place. I started to writeup a new howto at the mac.kde.org page that utilizes emerge for the heavy lifting like the KDE Windows team uses it. Read More

Kate also supports a minimap of the text contents instead of a classical scrollbar. To enable it, just go to Here at the Randa meeting, we just invested some time to bring this minimap more in line with the Breeze style. You can see the difference here: Note the scrollbar slider frame, the new version (right) is more distinct and in line with the rounded corners of the Breeze style. Read More

I updated the bundles, now they are release builds of Kate & KWrite and they contain less frameworks. The size is only one half of the last bundles, less than 50 MB per app. Visit “Get It” for the download links or below. Mac Application Bundles Kate 16.07.70 (Update 1) KWrite 16.07.70 (Update 1)

As we now have some binaries available for Windows & Mac, I renovated the “Get It” page. You now have there links to the latest versions of our binaries (installer for Windows & application bundle for Mac) beside the link to the distribution packages for Linux/BSD/* as provided by our dear packagers. For building Kate from sources, we now have the building instructions on a separate “Build It” page. We will try to update the binary builds in the next days at Randa. Read More

Right now, around 40 developers are working together on bringing KDE to other platforms in Randa (Switzerland) for an entire week. So far, I just fixed some bugs, e.g.: Kate: Correctly restore view config of all split views (commit, bug, review) Kate: Sort Kate Session Menu alphabetically (commit, bug, review) Kate: Avoid hidden view spaces on start (commit, bug, review) Kate, KDevelop: Tab Switcher Plugin: Make sure the height fits all items (commit, bug) Much more work is going on, especially also with bringing Kate to Mac OS, or making it work better on Windows. For instance, thanks to Kåre and David, renaming documents already works now, and soon the filesystem browser plugin will be available in the next Kate on Windows release :) Read More

I just created new bundles for Kate & KWrite. By accident they are a bit large, as stuff as web engine is moved to the bundle, but they should work ;=) How to create them? mac.txt in kate.git shows how that works. But you need a macqtdeploy with the patch for QTBUG-48836. Download links: Kate 16.07.70 KWrite 16.07.70 Thanks to the Randa meetup I got time for this, if you want to sponsor, click the image below ;) Read More

Yesterday afternoon I and others arrived in Randa. After some first meetup, started to try out how much work it is to e.g. compile Konsole or KDevelop on my Mac without patching Qt and stuff. Two review requests pending to get Konsole working at least on some basic level. Lets see what more is needed to get it in some usable state (at least the terminal toolview in Kate now can use the konsole part ;=) Read More

Tomorrow I will start to travel to the Randa Meeting 2016. I hope I can help to make it possible to spread KF5 based stuff more easy on platforms like Windows & Mac. Lets see what can be done, will be an interesting week ;=) If you want to support us, please consider to donate, we have a fundraising campaign running!