Fwd: kate 22.04 release notes

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2022-04-03 20:47, Paul Brown wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 April 2022 18:17:33 CEST Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io) 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I failed to find it myself, perhaps you can point me to it:
>> 
>> Is there some working branch for the KDE Gear 22.04 release notes?
>> 
>> And is there somebody who wants to help with beautifying this list for
>> it?
> 
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> We are collecting notes in Collaborate at
> 
> https://collaborate.kde.org/s/FeojYtRp2Z68mGB
> 
> At the moment there is not much there. If you are making notes of 
> changes
> somewhere else, we will be happy to go and copy them over so we can 
> include
> them in the announcement.

Hi,

at the moment we have just the list as inline in this mail and perhaps
some of the blog posts like

https://kate-editor.org/post/2022/2022-02-27-kate-ui-improvements/

That one has some nice screenshots and one could pick one of them
for the release notes.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Christoph
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: kate 22.04 release notes
>> Date: 2022-03-23 18:12
>>  From: Waqar Ahmed <waqar.17a at gmail.com>
>> To: cullmann at kde.org, Dominik Haumann <dhaumann at kde.org>
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I compiled most of the work done for this release. Usually our release
>> announcement doesn't mention a lot of work that is done so I think we
>> should add this in the release annoucement, probably at the end of the
>> blog post or something. I probably missed some things so feel free to
>> add things.
>> 
>> Fix incorrect blame info parsing when summary has '\t'
>> lsp: Handle client/RegisterCapability
>> Significantly improve Output view performance when there is a lot of
>> text
>> Add an action to clear search results to context menu
>> Add an option to disable focus frame around editor area
>> Add Before/After save triggers for external tools
>> Implement Drag & Drop support for tabs
>> Improve startup times by lazy loading the filebrowser plugin
>> Add options to disable search as you type
>> Search&Replace: Remove base path from files in search result
>> Search&Replace: Dim the path color slightly to make the filename
>> standout more
>> Search&Replace: Add options to disable search as you type
>> Search&Replace: Improve RTL support
>> Filebrowser: automatically synchronize with current document is now
>> enabled by default
>> lspclient: support multiline diagnostic items
>> Add a navigation bar for faster filesytem/symbols access
>> Remove margins in toolviews to make them more compact
>> Fix a crash when kate was closed
>> Make statusbar more compact
>> Handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to prevent data loss when kate was closed
>> externally
>> lspclient: Color icons in completion items
>> Save opened project in session
>> Improve quickopen performance & filtering
>> Ensure closing a tab only closes the tab that was closed
>> Close splitview when last tab in the split was closed
>> Fix tab closing for vi mode
>> Improve startup time by lazy creating views when a lot of files are
>> supplied as arguments
>> 
>> Other features that were implemented in KTextEditor during this cycle:
>> 
>> Ensure search bar doesn't replace statusbar
>> Improve filtering in completion
>> Make completion widget more compact
>> Show completion documentation outside the completion widget
>> Multicursor support
>> Save As dialog will open in the path of the last opened document
>> Custom line height support
>> Improved RTL text handling
>> Create Mode menu on demand to improve view creation time
>> Improvements to the CStyle indenter
>> Move some items from "Tools" menu to "Edit" for better discoverability
>> Fixes to allow using Font styles such as "Source Code Pro Light"
>> Differentiate files with identical filenames by appending their paths
>> to the filename
>> wayland: Avoid flicker on refresh
>> wayland: Fix completion widget positioning
>> wayland: Avoid flicker on save
>> Fix comment toggling
>> Add support for auto detecting a file's indentation
>> Fix crash when switching between tabs while search is running
>> Color current indentation line differently
>> Improve performance of the builtin search

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