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[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Marta Rybczynska <marta at rybczynska.net>wrote:

> > >
> >
> > That would be splendid indeed, but it's beyond my expertise.
> >
> >
> > I tried to bring up some things for the synopsis to put more meat in
> there.
> >
> > *Dear editors, please let me know if you this is worthwhile*
> >
> > ---
> > week of 12th to 18th Nov
> > ---
> >
> > 1)
> > one of dhaumann's commit messages said something like "removing search
> and
> > replace highlighting from kate. thats a truly sad day"
> >
> > Intrigued I asked for more, here is what he said:
> >
> > (I can give it a shot at editing it into somekind of article if it fits
> our
> > purpose)
> >
> > <dhaumann>
> > Up to KDE 4.9, the search & replace highlights stay, even if you close
> the
> > search & replace bar. You had to press Escape to manually remove them.
> > From KDE 4.10 on, there will be a notification bar on the bottom of the
> view
> > that tells the user the amount of search & replace matches. This bar stay
> > visible for about 6 seconds, then it hides itself automatically. And
> then,
> > i.e. after these 6 seconds, the search & replace highlights are also
> > removed.
> >
> > I wrote "this is a sad day", since I personally liked the previous
> behavior
> > a
> > lot. But there seemed to be quite some users who never figured out that
> > Escape
> > was needed to remove these highlightings :)
> >  </dhaumann>
> >
> > 2)
> > Homerun¹, a fullscreen launcher developped by Shaun Reich and Aurélien
> > Gateau, made its debut² release. Although it's currently at version
> 0.1.0,
> > it already looks³ functional(4). Integration with Activities (5) is
> planned
> > and other interesting ideas are afloat. Download and build instructions
> can
> > be found at Aurélien's blog²
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 1: http://userbase.kde.org/Homerun
> > 2: http://agateau.com/2012/11/14/introducing-homerun/
> > 3:
> >
> http://agateau.com/2012/11/14/introducing-homerun/thumb_homerun-containment.png
> > 4: http://youtu.be/6WcllgzepRY
> >
> > embedded alternative:
> > <iframe width="420" height="315" src="
> > http://www.youtube.com/embed/6WcllgzepRY?rel=0" frameborder="0"
> > allowfullscreen></iframe>
> >
> > 5: http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma#Activities
> >
> >
>
> I like both stories. For the first one, has dhaumann agreed to publish his
> answer? If so,
> I think that you can start working on the story. For Homerun, do ou think
> that we can
> contact the team for a special story or just we put one on our own based
> on the
> information present at other sources?
>
> Cheers,
> Marta
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I'm sure that if you ask Aurélien he'll be happy to help :).

Aleix
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