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@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ categories: [kde, kate, development]
tags: [kde, kate]
url: /posts/kate-history-kde-4-porting/
author: "Christoph Cullmann"
resources:
- name: "featured-image-preview"
src: "images/kate-kde4-20050519.png"
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During my web site upgrade, I reviewed the old stuff I had hosted on my long gone web sites but still archived here locally. An interesting thing I stumbled on are the KDE 3 -> 4 porting screenshots of Kate I saved in 2005.
@ -19,27 +16,19 @@ The KDE 3 -> 4 transition was a large hassle. It did take weeks of work just to
We first started with some trivial KTextEditor container (a mini KWrite) for the porting to get KTextEditor at all doing something. That started out with something that even had no menu or toolbars working:
<p align="center">
<a href="images/katetest-kde4-20050515-more.png" target="_blank"><img width=500 src="images/katetest-kde4-20050515-more.png"></a>
</p>
{{< image src="/posts/kate-history-kde-4-porting/images/katetest-kde4-20050515-more.png" alt="no menu or toolbars working kde 4" >}}
This evolved after two days into a kind of working KWrite port (icons still randomly missing):
<p align="center">
<a href="images/katetest-kde4-20050517.png" target="_blank"><img width=500 src="images/katetest-kde4-20050517.png"></a>
</p>
{{< image src="/posts/kate-history-kde-4-porting/images/katetest-kde4-20050517.png" alt="kwrite kde 4" >}}
After the KTextEditor part did work "reasonable", we started with Kate:
<p align="center">
<a href="images/kate-kde4-20050519.png" target="_blank"><img width=500 src="images/kate-kde4-20050519.png"></a>
</p>
{{< image src="/posts/kate-history-kde-4-porting/images/kate-kde4-20050519.png" alt="kate kde 4" >}}
And ended up with an initial ported prototype three days later:
<p align="center">
<a href="images/kate-kde4-20050522.png" target="_blank"><img width=500 src="images/kate-kde4-20050522.png"></a>
</p>
{{< image src="/posts/kate-history-kde-4-porting/images/kate-kde4-20050522.png" alt="kate kde 4" >}}
And after that a long time of actual polishing for KDE 4.0 did start. Kate was actually one of the first ported applications during the KDE 3 -> 4 transition.
@ -47,8 +36,6 @@ The KDE 4 -> KF5 transition was much nicer, even thought the Frameworks split di
And where did we end up with this ~14 years later? Actually, just here:
<p align="center">
<a href="images/kate-kf5-20190412.png" target="_blank"><img width=500 src="images/kate-kf5-20190412.png"></a>
</p>
{{< image src="/posts/kate-history-kde-4-porting/images/kate-kf5-20190412.png" alt="kate kf5" >}}
It is still recognizable the same application, thought I hope some progress is visible :=)