Posts Tagged ‘kate’

conf.kde.in : I am attending !! are you ?

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

If you are a KDE or Qt Developer or Opensource enthusiast then DON’T miss India’s fist ever KDE conference.

My 2 talks got selected for conf.kde.in 1) Writing Kate Plugins 2 ) Getting started with Qt programming (with Prashanth Udupa) and there are many more interesting talks by really cool speakers. Here is the list ->  http://kde.in/conf/talks/ .

If you have’t yet register then do it now (http://kde.in/conf/register/)  if you are a student or professor you got a discount too ;) and for student how needs to provide participation letter to there college here it is http://kde.in/conf/letter-for-participation/ hurry up secure your sit, lock you calendar and  plan your trip :) .  See you there.

Cheers !!

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Good News About KDE!!

Friday, December 31st, 2010

In my last post I mention about the disappointment I got because of No KDE day at Foss.in/2010.

But here’s the GOOD NEWS instead of KDE day we all (Kde developer’s team Kde India ) decided to have a KDE conference in India hurry!! :) .

Team KdeIndia

Photo credit Dinesh Sai

So we have First Ever KDE conference in India details are as follow:

Website : http://conf.kde.in

When:  9 – 13 March.

Where : R V College Of Engineering,
R V Vidyanikethan Post,
Mysore Road,
Bengaluru – 560004,
Karnataka, India

So lock your calendars, apply for leaves and get prepare for the event!

All are welcome from newbies to Old contributors.

See you there Enjoy :) .

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My first Open-Source conference Presentation

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

I attend India’s Biggest Open-Source conference FOSS.IN from 2007, and in 2009, in the same conference, I started contributing to KDE/Kate project.

I wrote Tabify plugin for Kate editor and also submitted a few patches to kate and KDE. Then I got lazy and didn’t do much significant contributions.

And again the Foss.in season arrived and I thought why not give a talk on Kate plugin in Foss.in KDE day. There are not much Kate contributors in India and I can share what I learnt and we can get more contributors in Kate too. That seemed to be an inspiring idea.

But I got disappointed since this year KDE day’s plan was dropped and I decided to drop my plan as well!! But thanks to people at my office ( VCL team ) for forcing me to do the presentation and finally I applied for the talk.

Eventually my talk got selected and I became a speaker at Foss.in. On 16th Dec 2010 at 11 am I gave my talk on “Writing plugins for Kate and enhancing Kate”.

Here is the presentation.

Writing plugins for Kate and enhancing Kate

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KDE: Kate Tabify Plugin

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Well this was my own wish list to have normal Tab Bar in Kate.
And finally I wrote a Tab Bar Plugin – Tabify (this is for now mostly will changed it to TabBar Extension in svn later)

This is how it looks

Here is the patch and this is the “Tar” for the folder.

enjoy :)

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KDE: Kate add a file by right-click in Filesystem Browser

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

One more Kate wish completed by me :) .  Bug no. 93230 and this will also be in KDE4.5 :) .

Problem/Wish: There is no way to add a file by rightclicking to a folder in Filesystem Broswer(filebrowser plugin).

Solution: Updated the KDirOperator with KNewFileMenu wrapper “setNewFileMenuSupportedMimeTypes” which will Only show the files in a given set of mimetypes it Internally uses  KNewFileMenu::setSupportedMimeTypes. In general now we can restrict options to be shown in Create New, this is useful in specialized applications like kate etc.  while file managers, on  the other hand, want to show all mimetypes.  (thanks to David Faure for moving KNewMenu to kdelibs as KNewFileMenu).

* for more details  here is the bug description.

This is how the new context menu of kate Filesystem Browser will look:

To download patch click here.


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KDE: Kate close/save multiple files.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

One more patch from my side to Kate. This time it’s from kate wish-list Bug No. 62998 and this will be in KDE 4.5 :) .

Problem/Wish: There was no option for closing and saving multiple (selected) files in document list.

Solution: Changed the document list’s selection mode to QAbstractItemView::ExtendedSelection and added two options in list’s context-menu, Save Selected and  Close Selected , now user can select multiple  files in document list by Left-click + Ctrl combination and close them using Right-click + Close Selected or/and save them using Right-click + Save Selected options.

* for more details  here is the bug description.

This is how the new context menu of kate document list will look :

To download patch click  here.

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My 1st Open-Source contribution

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Long time since I made a blog post … My new year started with a bang .. completing one item from my own wish list i.e contribute to a Open-Source project.

I have started contributing to KDE Kate. My 1st patch accepted for BUG No. 184055 which is now in kde 4.4 :) . Hurray …

About the fix:
Problem : Previously in Kate’s document view the last added file was not getting sorted as per the given sorting option.
Solution: Whenever user open the file call the document views sorting.

* for more details  here is the bug description .

To download patch click here.

Though it was really small bug fix it was really a good learning experience. I will try to be consistent with contributing to KDE :) .

All credit goes to Pradeepto and Prashanth for encouraging and guiding me :) . Thanks guys.

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