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Hello guys! I’m writing my weekly article today because I have already started working on something else. I didn’t have time to finish the previous stage because I started the next phase of the project. I had a talk with my GSoC mentor and a couple of Kate developers and we all concluded that I should start working on the folding algorithm as soon as possible because this is the main (and most important) part. For this part, I built a small new project that will help me implement the algorithm and test it independently from Kate project. You can find this project (and my Kate clone) at this address. There are not so many methods implemented, but you can figure out how things will be developed. Read More

Second out in the this series of plugins update is the GDB plugin which has gained a view for local variables. If you have GDB pretty printes in use, you can even get various Qt types displayed nicely. Here are direct links to the relevant printers and an example .gdbinit: qt4.py, libstdcxx.py and kde4.py. [][6]Locals view The locals view does not (yet?) have any fancy features as editing the values and does not show which variables have changed. Read More

KDE SC (or was it Platform?) 4.7 will bring some enhancements to Kate plugins. First up is the build plugin. The new thing for the build plugin is the ability to specify multiple targets per session. This means that you can build debug/releas/… targets without having to jump between sessions. The default setup/targets contain a configure target with a CMake command and a build target that runs make. Screenshot of the default "Config" target Read More

Hello! Last week I focused on analyzing the interface of the actual implementation. Now, it’s time to develop the new interface. As I mentioned in my proposal, one of my project’s goals is compatibility: I want to make as few changes as possible in the other sources. This is the reason why I studied the previous implementation for a whole week. Another goal of my project is simplicity. The interface will be implemented in an abstract class. This class will be inherited by two other classes: one for C style languages (those who use elements like “{}”) and one for Python style languages (those who use indentation level to define the code blocks), as you can see from the diagram. I believe the code will be simpler and clearer if it is more specialized. Read More

Hi everybody! I am Adrian and, as Erlend already mentioned in a previous post, I will rewrite Kate’s code folding algorithm on this GSoC edition. Starting from this week, I will post a weekly report of my work. At the end of each week I will post some info about the project’s progress and some details about what I have scheduled for the next week (according to my presented timeline). Read More

Recently we’ve had several feature requests in comments of a blog post. If you are interested, you can easily implement this and contribute to Kate. And I’ll even show you how to get started for the following feature. First, build Kate according to /get-it/. Adding support for ctrl+w {left, right, up, down} to switch the active view. Kate has a vi input mode. This way, vim users can still use their default work flow but still use Kate at the same time. What’s missing in the current vi input mode implementation is support for view navigation. In vim, to move between different windows, press ctrl-w to switch to the neighboring view. Implementing this is rather easy – the following steps need to be taken care of: Read More

This year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) has started and the Kate project has been lucky to get two students who will work on improving Kate’s folding code and Vi input mode. [][1]Adrian Adrian will work on improving the folding code which is in need of an overhaul: My name is Adrian. I’m studying in Bucharest, Romania, but my hometown is Constanta, a seaside town from Romania as well. I am a 3rd year student at “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. I have developed a passion for algorithms since High school when I participate in many programming competitions and took things to a new level during college. Read More

From time to time it happens that bug reports get pretty much nasty. A single user or some users request a feature. If you argue, bashing starts. In this case, it’s about Kate and the following scenario: You are editing several files (e.g. because you clicked on text files in dolphin). So Kate starts and you are not using an explicit session. If all files are saved, you can simply quit Kate. Bug #267356 requests, that the user is asked whether to save the session or not. Right now, if you are not using a session, Kate simply closes and the file list is lost. Comments are welcome, especially in the report. But please be objective and polite. Thanks… Read More

If you check Kate’s plugin list, you will recognize that there are two different tab bar plugins available. The first one is Tabify. This plugin adds a standard KDE tab bar to the top of Kate’s main window: The plugin shows the same entries as the “Documents” tool view on the left. With drag&drop, the tabs can be moved around. In KDE SC <= 4.6.2 this plugin is called Tabify. In KDE SC >= 4.6.3 the name is simply “Tab Bar”. Read More

My last post mentioned Necessitas which provides the means to have Qt on Android. Whereas still a early preview release, it already allows you to compile and run Qt applications on Android >= 1.6 without any big hassle and integrates that into QtCreator! I tried out the SDK in the last days, it is really easy to use and setup, like seen here and here (with good video that shows the steps). What is missing here? KDE :) Read More