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Christoph already wrote several blog posts about the upcoming projects plugin. In his last blog, he mentioned that a project can now be created on-the-fly by reading the git or subversion output: All the files under version control are automatically listed as files in the project.

However, this is restricted to git and subversion. If you always wanted to contribute to Kate, you can give other version control systems a try, such as Mercurial (command: hg manifest). Just quickly build Kate, and send us a patch!

After a bit toying around, the first version of project management plugin has landed in the master branch of the kate.git.

First time I developed a new feature in a feature-clone in my scratch space on git.kde.org. Very cool, KDE sysadmins did a GREAT job with that stuff: easy to setup and use ;)

Now, people wanting to try out that, just clone our kate.git and compile the master branch.

Some years ago the Kate team introduced the “Session” feature.

This allows you easily to keep around different Kate sessions for different work tasks, like coding, web design, writing, …

Whereas I used that feature a lot at start during my normal daily work, I kind of no longer used it already since some years.

For my normal work pattern: Checkout a project, fix something in it or code an extension, then hop over to the next one, the session feature doesn’t really provide the right workflow.

It is easy and fun, please help to fix the remaining small things in the cleanups section of the frameworks branch.

See here:
http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Epics/kdelibs_cleanups

And use the nice and complete build howto here:
http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building

And yeah, I have already stolen some really easy tasks :)
Don’t allow David to have all the fun.

Currently, we use our own passive notification bar to show a recovery bar when a swap file was found:

Since version 4.7 we have a class called KMessageWidget (api documentation). Using KMessageWidget, the notification could also look like this:

Hi,

just yesterday I got asked by one long time contributor, if he can at all join the KDE e.V. or if he needs to do something special for that. He thought it would be more an invitation only club.

It’s not ;) Anybody who does contribute to KDE can join us.

KDE e.V. definition from its homepage:
“KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE Community in legal and financial matters.”

With KDE SC 4.9 around the corner and according to tradition, it’s time to have a look at what’s new in Kate.

**Improved Support for Custom Color Schemas
**

• improved “Colors” tab in the “Fonts & Colors” config page
• configurable colors: search & replace, code folding, indentation line,
• schema export and import honor background colors (bug #291868) and font
• “highlight selection” plugin and “search and replace” plugin now use search & replace colors from Kate’s color schema

Line Modification System