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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: improved printing support (report 1, report 2, report 3, report 4, report 5, and more) syntax highlighting files added and updated zoom in/out with ctrl+mouse wheel, scroll over folding area wrong active view when resuming session with split view ambiguous shortcuts in file system browser resolved improved GDB plugin we heavily cleaned up our bug database (bugs + wishes): Heavily Reworked Code Folding As part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2011, the code folding code was improved. The main goal was to eliminate wrong folding behavior and fix all crashes while making the code more maintainable. We are quite happy with the results: Given the robust behavior, it now was possible to remember code folding state past sessions and during document reload. So folded regions are not lost anymore. Read More

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. Read More

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!

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

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

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at home this weekend. [][2]Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie 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(++). Read More

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

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: Next, after saving: Read More