As I am writing this, I am sitting in a train home from Akademy 2018, KDE’s annual developer conference, which took place in Vienna this year. Akademy always is a great mix of some talks, some socializing with people you otherwise only communicate with through mailing lists or IRC, and some hacking, and this year’s conference was no exception to this. In this post, I will detail some of the […]
I started to implement multiple cursor and selection support in KDE’s famous text editor kate a while ago, but eventually didn’t quite have the time to finalize it. I am currently at Akademy in Spain, KDE’s annual developer conference, and decided that would be a good time to pick it up again and make it actually work. Here it is in action: What does it do? It allows you to […]
The last few days, we had a joint kate and KDevelop sprint in Berlin. I finally found the time to fix up the Python language support plugin for KDevelop, which was in a quite bad shape in the last few months. Most importantly, the 1.7-py3 branch now supports Python 3.4.3, and the master branch supports KF5 (this mostly thanks to Laurent, who did most of the porting) and Python 3.5, […]
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 […]
We have decided that kte-collaborative (the “Collaborative text editing in KTextEditor via kde-telepathy” project — see previous) is ready for a first release! This release is explicitly flagged as “preview” and might not be suitable for daily use just yet. There are still some known problems; the release is meant as an invitation to curious users to test the program and tell us about any problems they encounter. Release tarballs: […]
Read my first status report for a more general introduction on what is happening. The second report gives some information about features implemented earlier. Much has happened in the “bring collaborative text editing to kate and kde-telepathy” project! This blog post will outline some of the most important changes, such as undo support and sharing documents with chatrooms. Current snapshot of kte-collaborative Sharing documents with chatrooms Cool feature, but not […]
First of all, I’ve been accepted for GSoC this year! I’ll be working on creating a collaborative text editor based on the KTextEditor interface and libinfinity library, and on integrating that editor into kde-telepathy. The point of integration with kde-telepathy is that it will allow for a nice user experience in setting up connections: instead of typing IP addresses, they can just select a person from their contact list. “Integration” […]