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After the latest changes in Nokia, I was kind of scared that “Qt Everywhere!” like printed on my nice bathing towel won’t really happen any more, at least not as fast as thought. Now I got my new phone, Android based, and tried out Necessitas. And I must say, I am impressed. Just downloaded Ministro from the Android Market (yes, just like that, no rooting, no hacking, nothing) and the hello world demo and it runs :P Read More

Thanks to the massive work of sysadmin and others (like Ian Monroe), kdelibs and kdebase are now converted to Git. In parallel, the move of all kate related code to the kate.git was done and announced. Kate Part / App + KWrite reside now in kate.git on git.kde.org and this is the central place for kate development, like it was already before, but now without the shadow-copies in three other repositories. Read More

As Dominik already points out in his blog, Kate has made nice progress for KDE 4.6. Some of the latest fixes, like for some nasty search bug didn’t make it in RC1, btw., I was too lame with Git -> SVN syncs. Anyway, I have now synced and backported to KDE 4.6 branch all pending fixes. For the next KDE SC release 4.7 (here you go, I wrote SC :)), I hope this syncing will no longer be necessary. Read More

Some days ago KDE 4.6 was branched. So what will Kate in KDE 4.6 bring? The new tree view as “Documents” sidebar completely replaces the old file list. It supports the simple list mode as well as a pseudo-intelligent tree view to group files. The “Documents” tab is now implemented as plugin (always loaded), meaning that it brought a code cleanup as well. We hope you like it! :) Swap file support, meaning that you can recover all your unsaved data for local files on the next Kate startup. Read More

Goodbye to Gitorious, welcome to git.kde.org. You can find the Kate project here. The “Get It!” page on the homepage is updated, too. Push access is still restricted, but that will not last for ever ;) Thanks to the sysadmin team of KDE, thanks guys, for all the work you put into the new infrastructure (and to help me with my faults ;) And thanks to Gitorious, it was a nice time there, and I learned to appreciate Git, like many Kate developers (some appreciated it even before). Read More

We tried to move weeks ago already, but in our current repository some small glitches occured during the SVN => Git transition. I have redone the conversion now and soon we will be on git.kde.org (if I not screw that again, thanks already to sysadmin for all help, now and in past!). Still some small stuff will then need to be ported, which I will do after the initial repository is up there. Read More

Kate has a new plugin called “Highlight Selection”. Since it is a KTextEditor plugin, it is available for all apps using KatePart (e.g.: Kile, Kate, KWrite, KDevelop etc). What does it do? If you select a whole word, all occurrences of this word are highlighted as well: You can jump to the next occurrence with ctrl+h (btw: ctrl+h works already since KDE 4.2 or so). The plugin will be included in KDE 4. Read More

Being a regular Kate user (more than half a dozen hours each day), I was not satisfied by the PHP treeview (available from the SymbolViewer plugin). As some of you have probably noticed, it is quite outdated and seems to only support the PHP4 syntax. Here is a screenshot: The recent switch of Kate to gitourious was the trigger to try compile it on my own and to dive into the source code. Read More

As many other applications Kate has the menu File > Recent Files, which lists all files you recently used. This recent file list right now is per session, i.e., each session has its own entries listed as recent files. Now there is a request to change it such that there is just one single global recent file list. I think having two recent files menus (one for the session and one global) is a bad solution. Read More

Hi! It’s me again. Got some exciting news. The file tree is now the default (and only) document list/view widget. It actually took me by surprise. After I got the list mode and other features implemented, the old document list was unceremoniously ripped out, and extensions were added to allow kate to always load a given plugin, and give its settings tab a little more prominence. Since then however I’ve fixed a few issues regarding the settings in the plugin. Read More