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On Being Wrong

Wednesday, 21 December 2011 | Dominik Haumann

Maybe a good read: On being wrong. It’s about why it’s so hard to admit that you are wrong, and more.

Kate in KDE 4.8

Tuesday, 20 December 2011 | Dominik Haumann | Tags: planet

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:

Evolution of Kate Development (Take 2)

Sunday, 6 November 2011 | Christoph Cullmann | Tags: planet

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.

Evolution of Kate Development

Thursday, 3 November 2011 | Dominik Haumann | Tags: planet

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!

qt-project.org online ;)

Friday, 21 October 2011 | Christoph Cullmann | Tags: planet

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

Plasma Active

Saturday, 15 October 2011 | Dominik Haumann | Tags: planet

At the desktop summit, many contributors got a ExoPC from Intel, but the software on it was quite a disappointment. Meanwhile, there is an official release of Plasma Active that fills the gap. So I sat down and installed it on the ExoPC. It really works quite nice and smooth. Applications like Amarok and a browser make it usable to hear music and do some quick internet surfing. I documented the steps in order to get everything up and running. Read More

One great man less :(

Thursday, 13 October 2011 | Christoph Cullmann | Tags: planet

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at home this weekend.

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(++).

About Kate Redesigned

Saturday, 24 September 2011 | Dominik Haumann | Tags: planet

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

Qt open governance will go live!

Monday, 12 September 2011 | Christoph Cullmann | Tags: planet

Finally some sustainable announcements about the future of Qt and its open governance project:

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/

http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/

I hope this will be well received and we will see yet another increase in contributions to our Qt/KDE ecosystem ;)

Thanks for all the effort to all people who made this possible!

Code Folding Updates

Sunday, 11 September 2011 | Dominik Haumann | Tags: planet

Christoph and me cleaned up the visualization of the code folding for KDE 4.8 a bit. In the snapshot, the left image shows the old behavior, and the right one shows the new behavior. The background highlighting appears as soon as you hover over the code folding bar. We hope you like it :) Mockups of how to make it even better are welcome, of course! You can try it by building Kate yourself, if you want.