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The Kate Text Editor - Valentine's Day 2022
Monday, 14 February 2022 | Christoph Cullmann
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.
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Kate & KTextEditor Bug Fixing
Saturday, 29 January 2022 | Christoph Cullmann
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.
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The Kate Text Editor in 2021
Friday, 31 December 2021 | Christoph Cullmann
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.
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KDE e.V. Windows Store Statistics
Sunday, 5 December 2021 | Christoph Cullmann
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:
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Dart / Flutter support in Kate
Monday, 21 June 2021 | Waqar Ahmed
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.
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KDE e.V. Windows Store Statistics
Saturday, 19 June 2021 | Christoph Cullmann
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
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KDE Framework 5.84 - Expandable Tooltips
Sunday, 13 June 2021 | Christoph Cullmann
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.
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Kate 21.04 in the Windows Store
Sunday, 9 May 2021 | Christoph Cullmann
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!
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Let's welcome Kate the Cyber Woodpecker
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 | Christoph Cullmann
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.
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Git Blame Plugin for Kate 21.04 Take 2
Thursday, 1 April 2021 | Kåre Särs
Nifty new feature in Kate for KDE Gear 21.04 So OK the previous blog was a bit exaggerated. There is no AI in the works (right now at least) :) But with KDE Gear 21.04 there will actually be be a Git Blame plugin.
So what does it do for real? Ever wonder why a code line is as it is? Git helps with that. There is the git blame command that provides information about when and who committed a line in a file.
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