Well I’m not sure this really qualifies as an update, because it is actually a new plugin. And the plugin I’m talking about is the Search plugin. This is going to be mostly a series of screen-shots. The first shot contains the “new” feature differentiating itself from the other one. You can now select to search in the currently open files. This is especially good if you are working on files on a remote server.
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
| Dominik Haumann | Tags:
planet
We’ve managed to push our bugs down from ~430 to ~310 during the last two days. Some bugs are not valid anymore, but lots of bugs also really have been fixed. So in KDE 4.7 we will have the best Kate release ever :-)
Second out in the this series of plugins update is the GDB plugin which has gained a view for local variables. If you have GDB pretty printes in use, you can even get various Qt types displayed nicely. Here are direct links to the relevant printers and an example .gdbinit: qt4.py, libstdcxx.py and kde4.py.
[][6]Locals view
The locals view does not (yet?) have any fancy features as editing the values and does not show which variables have changed.
KDE SC (or was it Platform?) 4.7 will bring some enhancements to Kate plugins. First up is the build plugin. The new thing for the build plugin is the ability to specify multiple targets per session. This means that you can build debug/releas/… targets without having to jump between sessions. The default setup/targets contain a configure target with a CMake command and a build target that runs make.
Saturday, 4 June 2011
| Dominik Haumann | Tags:
planet
Recently we’ve had several feature requests in comments of a blog post. If you are interested, you can easily implement this and contribute to Kate. And I’ll even show you how to get started for the following feature. First, build Kate according to /get-it/.
Adding support for ctrl+w {left, right, up, down} to switch the active view.
Kate has a vi input mode. This way, vim users can still use their default work flow but still use Kate at the same time. What’s missing in the current vi input mode implementation is support for view navigation. In vim, to move between different windows, press ctrl-w to switch to the neighboring view. Implementing this is rather easy – the following steps need to be taken care of:
Monday, 23 May 2011
| Erlend Hamberg | Tags:
planet
This year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) has started and the Kate project has been lucky to get two students who will work on improving Kate’s folding code and Vi input mode.
[][1]Adrian
Adrian will work on improving the folding code which is in need of an overhaul:
Thursday, 28 April 2011
| Dominik Haumann | Tags:
planet
From time to time it happens that bug reports get pretty much nasty. A single user or some users request a feature. If you argue, bashing starts.
In this case, it’s about Kate and the following scenario: You are editing several files (e.g. because you clicked on text files in dolphin). So Kate starts and you are not using an explicit session. If all files are saved, you can simply quit Kate. Bug #267356 requests, that the user is asked whether to save the session or not. Right now, if you are not using a session, Kate simply closes and the file list is lost. Comments are welcome, especially in the report. But please be objective and polite. Thanks…
Monday, 25 April 2011
| Dominik Haumann | Tags:
planet
If you check Kate’s plugin list, you will recognize that there are two different tab bar plugins available. The first one is Tabify. This plugin adds a standard KDE tab bar to the top of Kate’s main window:
The plugin shows the same entries as the “Documents” tool view on the left. With drag&drop, the tabs can be moved around. In KDE SC <= 4.6.2 this plugin is called Tabify. In KDE SC >= 4.6.3 the name is simply “Tab Bar”.
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
| Christoph Cullmann | Tags:
planet
My last post mentioned Necessitas which provides the means to have Qt on Android. Whereas still a early preview release, it already allows you to compile and run Qt applications on Android >= 1.6 without any big hassle and integrates that into QtCreator!
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