Kate (KDE)

KDE 4.9 has branched, and so the Pâté plugin ”host” for Python plugins has moved from Kate’s playground to be a mainstream plugin. Since a plugin-for-plugins might be a bit confusing, here is a quick tour of how it is managed and works, and especially a few rough edges it still has. NOTE If you’ve installed this [...]

So there I am, a confirmed Kate user, and now I need to find my way around a codebase of over 100,000 files using GNU ID utils. The rather crude answer for Kate 3 was to write a wrapper around the lid(1) utility and the DCOP scripting interface of Kate, all driven from the built-in [...]

Like last summer I am mentoring a student working on Kate’s Vi mode this summer. This year’s student is Vegard Øye from Oslo, Norway. I’ll let him introduce himself: My name is Vegard Øye. I am a computer science student at the University of Oslo, Norway. I also have a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering [...]

One year more passed and the next Akademy will soon open its doors. Was never before in Tallinn or Estonia, will be an interesting visit. Hope to meet again a lot of old and new KDE people. Didn’t code a lot at all since last years meeting, too busy to finalize my phd thesis. Hope [...]

I’ve been using and contributing to KDE on-and-off for a while, but our friends over in Gnome land were already busy by the time I got into the game. So why did I conceptually commit to KDE, and thence Kate? Consistency. I grew up on VAX/VMS where it was possible – and even easy – [...]

Since quite some time, Kate Part has build-in scripting support through JavaScript. Our plan is to make this API public, so other applications like Kile, Kate App and KDevelop can use it. However, we are currently unsure how to best implement it, so this is a rfc to get feedback. The bindings for a Kate Document [...]

Years ago, there was a blog on the planet with the title “How to crash (almost) every Qt/KDE Application and how to fix it“. In short, if you are showing a dialog, KWin prevents you from closing the application by clicking on the close button in the window decoration. However, through D-Bus, you can still [...]

Recently, there was a very good blog about The Importance of Mentoring. It was mentioned that the 3200 slocs of the gsoc projects could be cut down to 500 slocs, doing exactly the same thing. While hunting some crashes in the new code folding code from the last gsoc project, I obviously had a closer [...]

In KDE SC 4.9, Kate Part will have an option in the Open/Save config tab called [ ] Append newline at end of file on save By default (and Kate tradition), this option is off. You can also use the document variable (modeline) newline-at-eof [bool], either in the file itself, in a .kateconfig file, or in [...]

As already mentioned, Kate Part much better chooses colors from the default KDE color palette configured in System Settings in upcoming KDE SC 4.9. As teaser, here are some examples – hope you like it. Default “Oxygen” Color Schema Default “Obsidian Coast” Color Schema  Dark “Vim” Color Schema Note: The yellow search background comes from [...]