Planet 

One year more passed and the next Akademy will soon open its doors.

Was never before in Tallinn or Estonia, will be an interesting visit.

Hope to meet again a lot of old and new KDE people.

Didn’t code a lot at all since last years meeting, too busy to finalize my phd thesis.
Hope to get more time for Kate in the next months again ;) And at the meeting.

Since quite some time, Kate Part has build-in scripting support through JavaScript. Our plan is to make this API public, so other applications like Kile, Kate App and KDevelop can use it. However, we are currently unsure how to best implement it, so this is a rfc to get feedback.

The bindings for a Kate Document are for instance located in part/script/katescriptdocument.h (header, implementation). As you can see, there are functions like

Recently, there was a very good blog about The Importance of Mentoring. It was mentioned that the 3200 slocs of the gsoc projects could be cut down to 500 slocs, doing exactly the same thing.

While hunting some crashes in the new code folding code from the last gsoc project, I obviously had a closer look on how things are implemented. The code folding uses a simple tree structure. Nodes can be added, removed or moved around. So I stumbled over the following code:

In KDE SC 4.9, Kate Part will have an option in the Open/Save config tab called

[ ] Append newline at end of file on save

By default (and Kate tradition), this option is off. You can also use the document variable (modeline) newline-at-eof [bool], either in the file itself, in a .kateconfig file, or in the “Modes & Filetypes” config page. If a newline was added, it is visible only after reloading the document. This finally fixes wish #256134.

Default “Oxygen” Color Schema
Read More

Now, the categories in the “Colors” tab are painted like in System Settings (top: new, bottom: old):

Thanks to Rafael Fernández López for relicensing the code of SystemSettings’ CategoryDrawer under LGPLv{2,3}.

This week, Kate Part received an update of the “Colors” tab in the settings dialog, available in KDE 4.9. The major features include

• configurable colors: search highlight, replace highlight and modified line colors – finally :-)
• possibility to always use colors from the KDE color scheme.
• the implementation works in a way that at some point, the host application (KDevelop, Kile, …) can put items into this list.

Here are screenshots of the new (top) and the old (bottom) color tab:

Since several releases, Kate Part has scripting support through javascript. So far, it seems it is not much used by users. Still, I stumbled over two extensions:

• jump to previous / next paragraph
• base64 encoding

If you have more user defined scripts, it would be nice if you let us know! For KDE5, we plan to extend this, so applications like Kile or KDevelop can reuse Kate’s internal code.