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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:

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.

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!

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at home this weekend.

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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(++).

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!

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.

Some days ago, Dominik implemented a line modification system in the KatePart.
For all who don’t know what that means at all (like me before the DS 2011), here some screenshots.

First, starting with a fresh loaded file:

Now, lets write some lines: