Month: October 2013

kdev-python update: version 1.5.2 released

I’m happy to announce the availability of a second stabilization update for the 1.5 series of kdev-python, the Python language support plugin for the KDevelop development environment. See the 1.5 announcement for more information. kdev-python version 1.5.2 http://download.kde.org/stable/kdevelop/kdev-python/1.5.2/src/kdev-python-v1.5.2.tar.xz.mirrorlist SHA256:84ae7015623a3848b1c1ce8e8f958c32778e9ba0afafa3ea3b3dd70687e1fe40 The kdev-python 1.5 series is compatible with KDevelop 4.5 (kdevplatform 1.5) and is suitable for working with Python 2.x source code. If you’re only interested in using (as opposed to packaging […]

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kte-collaborative 0.2: First stable release of the collaborative text editing project

I’m pleased to announce the first stable release of kte-collaborative, which provides collaborative text editing in kate through kde-telepathy, and an update to the libqinfinity library. libqinfinity version 0.5.2: http://download.kde.org/stable/libqinfinity/0.5.2/src/libqinfinity-v0.5.2.tar.xz.mirrorlist SHA256: 739f99afb7fd464e4b541e2980e07911c8f30924f9871f14294dc3148137825a kte-collaborative version 0.2.0 (aka 0.2): http://download.kde.org/stable/kte-collaborative/0.2.0/src/kte-collaborative-v0.2.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist  SHA256: 06c8cfb16b93a8fe3c5e2267ba3f71110526966267f73fed20a902c3f7982a55 kte-collaborative 0.2 depends on kde-telepathy 0.7 beta or later, and works with libinfinity 0.5.x. kte-collaborative 0.2, with dolphin listing some files from gobby.0x539.de and editing a file in kate. There have […]

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Advanced code completion filtering in kate / KDevelop

I have implemented two new ways to filter the code completion popup in kate: filtering the list using an abbreviation, and filtering the list using text not occuring at the word’s beginning. This can probably best be demonstrated by lots of pictures: You can match completion items by their abbreviation. This works for both camel case and underscore notation. You can also match entries by words they merely contain but […]

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Extracting text from Photoshop (PSD) images

I just needed to grab text from some Photoshop images and put it into a LaTeX document. But, how do I get that text on Linux? GIMP can’t do it, nor can any other program I tried (they all rasterize the text). Fortunately the text is just saved in plain in the .psd file, so it’s relatively easy to get it out of there. However it’s in utf-16, so with […]

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