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Lets fight the bugs (or here bugs fighting each other, from de.wikipedia). Dominik and I did a nice bug squashing here at Berlin Desktop Summit 2011. We already met some weeks ago to hunt down bugs in Kate at Saarbrücken, but this additional time really helped a lot. The progress of the last 365 days look quiet promising. Read More

We almost missed it, but 10 years ago Kate was included in KDE’s CVS repository and shipped the first time with KDE 2.2. Details about the history can be found here. So Happy Birthday Kate! And Kate in KDE 2.2 looked like this: Read More

Thanks a lot to Intel for passing around the ExoPC at the AppUp workshop yesterday. Its kind of nice hardware to start developing for Intel based tablets, whereas for normal use, the battery life and weight is kind of problematic. I really like the idea to be able to write nice and shiny Qt applications which run both on MeeGo and Windows and the AppUp store is really open in respect to allowing distribute open source software. Read More

The “External Tools” plugin is one of the oldest plugins of Kate. A big hug to Anders Lund for writing it years ago, a lot of people enjoyed using it. It allows the user to specify own commands (aka snippets of shell programs) to be executed with the text of the current document or the current file. Read More

As you may know the Kate code folding implementation gets some love these days. The last days, several bug fixes dropped in by our GSoC student. And the good news is that if all works well, we’ll be able to backport these fixes so that the code folding is much more robust in our beloved Kate even in KDE 4.7.x. These changes probably fix several crashes that were around since 2005 as well. I believe the word we’re looking for is: owned! :-) Read More

I want to introduce you my GSoC-2011 project. I was working on improvement the vi input mode for the Kate part. There are a lot of improvements for normal mode. Now it’s able to use jump list by pressing ctrl-i/ctrl-o in normal mode like in vim. And now not only registers but also marks, and jumps stored in the config of the session. H, M and L commands moves cursor to the first(Home), Middle and Last line of the screen. To go to the any percent of the document you can use the % command by typing the number of percent(1-100) before it. gk and gj motions will make you able to go visual(display) lines up and down. It’s useful when you using line wrap. Read More

For me, it (still) feels very unnatural to talk about us as KDE. I’m still thinking in terms of the KDE community; and the KDE Project releases the KDE Desktop (or just KDE). I’m also fine with the KDE Workspace and other specialized variants. However, the login manager now also shows the term KDE Plasma Workspace. In my very own humble opinion, this is already too much of buzz words. Read More

As you may know, Kate supports the concept of document variables, also known as modelines. In short, document variables can be used to set Kate settings local to a file. For instance, this is useful for settings specific indenter options than the ones defined in Kate’s settings dialog. Assume you work on two projects, the first indents with spaces and the second with tabs, then you can simply add a modeline that contains the specific document variables that set the specific indentation properties. Read More

I normally enjoy StarCraft 2 in the evening a bit or like now, if it is raining and I have no fun in any more real work. But just now and some days ago, it has again proven, KDE > StarCraft 2. Just again, StarCraft 2 (played with wine, thanks a lot wine team, you do a great job!) got sluggish and then terminated. A quick dmesg call shows the cause. Like last time, the OOM killer got me. Read More

Now that the next version of the KDE platform is branched, it’s time to have a look at all the changes in Kate in KDE 4.7. More than 150 wishes and issues have been resolved. A detailed list of the resolved issues can be found in the KDE bug tracker. All Kate development is done in the KDE git infrastructure as submodule of kdebase. It is very straight forward to build Kate within a few minutes according to our excellent documentation. New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files (will replace the Find in Files plugin in KDE 4.8). Plugin improvements: Build Plugin., GDB Plugin Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features. Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only. Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more. Current State of Kate Read More