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[Marta Rybczynska]

Hello,

Both lok good to me. This is an interesting read. Coul you please put them in Enzyme (the Features tab)
with the formatting etc?

Thanks,
Marta

Jürgen Appel wrote:
> Hola!
> 
> For Kate's new search and replace behaviour, Dominik added a screenshot
> (attached) and edited what I send to him comme ça:
> 
> <start article>
> 
> The highlighting appearance in Kate's search and replace function has been
> modified. Dominik, one of the Kate developers, changed this behavior on
> several user requests, who never figured out that pressing Escape was needed
> to remove these highlightings :)
> 
> In the commit message he refers to the change as "a truly sad day", since he
> personally like the feature quite a lot. The commit message explains the new
> behavior in detail:
> 
> <quote>
> Up to KDE SC 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 SC 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 :)
> </quote>
> 
> <end article>
> 
> the Homerun-snipped: Aurélian added the part about the Runner API and
> supported the article's inclusion into the digest.
> 
> <article>
> 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.
> 
> The homerun developers are investigating with other Plasma developers how
> to rework/extend the Runner API so that there they can avoid the need of a
> separate Sources API in the future.
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> </article>
> 
> Let me know if / how I can prepare these articles better for the digest in
> case I ll write again : )
> 
> lgs,
> 
> J
>