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In the last few weeks we had time to nicely improve the general UI of our editor. Naturally, the overall structure of the main window stays the same, with a central splitter area and some tool views around. But if you take a look at the two screenshots below that show the last release and the current master branch version, you will spot some differences that in my eyes improve on what we have in a nice way. Read More

Once more, Valentine's Day has arrived. Like last year, Kate's development is nicely progressing this year, too. Plenty of new stuff and fixes We had a very successful year 2021 development wise. As you can track on our merge requests page 348 requests got merged directly into Kate and 177 into the KTextEditor editor component. The year 2022 already began well with 63 patches for Kate and 39 for KTextEditor. Read More

Bugs, bugs, bugs... The Kate & KTextEditor projects have at the moment 189 open bugs. That is a lot given only a few people work on this projects regularly. Therefore it would be really appreciated if people could help out with fixing. If you have spare time and you are interested in help to improve our projects, head over to our long list of bugs. Some might even be already fixed and just need to be tried out with a recent version. Read More

COVID-19 Pandemic Unfortunately, like the year 2020, for many people this was again no easy year. A lot of us and our families & friends are still directly or indirectly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like last year, I still hope the future will look less bleak now that vaccination is on the rise and perhaps we even have a bit luck with less deadly virus mutations in the future. Read More

Soon the year ends, let's take a look at the current statistics of all applications in the Windows Store published with the KDE e.V. account. Since the last summary in June, KDE Connect joined as newly available application! Thanks to all people that made this happen. Last 30 days statistics Here are the number of acquisitions for the last 30 days (roughly equal to the number of installations, not mere downloads) for our applications: Read More

So about a couple of weeks ago I decided it was time to try out Flutter for desktop app development. If you don't know about Flutter, it's a UI framework for cross-platform app development by Google. After reading a little bit about Dart, I decided to dive in directly and write a basic app in Dart. To my surprise Kate didn't support Dart at all, there was no syntax-highlighting, no anything, not even Dart file detection. Read More

Now that Akademy 2021 has started, let's take a look at the current statistics of all applications in the Windows Store published with the KDE e.V. account. Last 30 days statistics Here are the number of acquisitions for the last 30 days (roughly equal to the number of installations, not mere downloads) for our applications: Okular - More than a reader - 5,674 acquisitions Kate - Advanced Text Editor - 3,701 acquisitions Read More

Starting with the KDE Frameworks 5.84 release, KXMLGUI based applications will feature expandable tooltips per default. The matching merge request by Felix Ernst got merged today after 3 months ;=) What are expandable tooltips at all? Good question ;=) In short: for stuff like menu & toolbar actions, it provides an easy way to access the "What's This?" help. Unlike before, where you need to manually trigger that via the "Shift-F1" shortcut and click around to try out which GUI elements provide at all this additional help, you will now first get a small tooltip with the normal tooltip content (if any) and a hint that with "Shift" you are able to get more help displayed. Read More

KDE Gear 21.04 including Kate out in the wild! KDE Gear 21.04 was released some weeks ago. If you use some distribution like e.g. the rolling release Arch Linux (or Arch derivates like Manjaro), you might already have updated to Kate from that release. As show in the 21.04 pre-release post, Kate 21.04 really has some nifty new features and improvements on all fronts over 20.12. Window Store Update => Done! Read More

A lot of good things happen at the moment in Kate's development. We didn't only implement plenty of new features for 21.04 and fix a lot of bugs in the last months and year, we did improve our overall product branding, too. Early in 2020, we introduced a new Kate icon designed by Tyson Tan to get some icon that is instantly recognizable compared to the generic ones we used in the past. Read More