On Being Wrong
by Dominik • 2011-12-21 • 0 Comments
Maybe a good read: On being wrong. It’s about why it’s so hard to admit that you are wrong, and more.
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Kate in KDE 4.8
by Dominik • 2011-12-21 • 16 Comments
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 [...]
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Evolution of Kate Development (Take 2)
by Christoph Cullmann • 2011-11-6 • 1 Comment
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 [...]
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Evolution of Kate Development
by Dominik • 2011-11-3 • 5 Comments
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!
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qt-project.org online ;)
by Christoph Cullmann • 2011-10-21 • 0 Comments
Seems the Trolls made it, qt-project.org is online Grats.
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Plasma Active
by Dominik • 2011-10-15 • 2 Comments
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 [...]
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One great man less :(
by Christoph Cullmann • 2011-10-13 • 4 Comments
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at home this weekend. 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 [...]
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About Kate Redesigned
by Dominik • 2011-09-24 • 15 Comments
With some of my gimp skills, I updated Kate’s feature list. Hope you like the face-lift
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Qt open governance will go live!
by Christoph Cullmann • 2011-09-12 • 0 Comments
Finally some sustainable announcements about the future of Qt and its open governance project: labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/ 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!
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Code Folding Updates
by Dominik • 2011-09-11 • 19 Comments
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 [...]
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