People Behind KDE: Christoph Cullmann

This man maintains KDE's text editor Kate and the associated KTextEditor interface. He also keeps three cats and disappears from his girlfriend for a week each year in the name of KDE. The star of tonight's People Behind KDE interview is Christoph Cullmann.

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by Thiago Macieira (not verified)

We'd be shocked if the reply was "Emacs" :-)

Great interview, Christoph. Now, can you share with us your secret of super-fast-porting-Kate-to-KDE4? It'll sure help in kdelibs.

by Swoosh (not verified)

I would just love to have emacs embedded in kdevelop. I guess this should be possible after kdevelop has been ported to Qt4.

by Narishma (not verified)

After kdevelop has been ported to emacs you mean ? :p

by Swoosh (not verified)

Well, I guess one can argue how serious my comment was. I just got a bit inspired by this:

http://blogs.qtdeveloper.net/archives/2005/08/10/playing-around-with-xem...

Unfortunately the screenshot showing the stuff in action seems to be gone...

by petteri (not verified)

I just hope that some day Kate will have decent Emacs profile which will include emacs-like identation and most of the magical key bindings.

by Ian Monroe (not verified)

Kate is just a nice piece of software. Thanks!

by Pascal Klein (not verified)

Lovely interview. Christoph, in case you read this: thanks a bundle for Kate. It is my favourite text editor. I even install the KDE libraries when I work under a GNOME environment just so I can use it. ^_^

I'll remember to say hi next time I re-visit Germany again. Ich bin von Mainz.

Cheers and kudos.

by Roy Schestowitz (not verified)

Kate is great (rhyme intended). Keep up the great work!

by Phase II (not verified)

The Bouncing Souls already knew this before - and that was back in 1997!

http://www.letssingit.com/?/bouncing-souls-k8-is-great-qkc1cm9.html

by m. (not verified)

Completely agree - KHTML is really underrated. Only KJS could be faster.

by ac (not verified)

khtml rocks the house

I agree about kjs, see here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113921

by testerus (not verified)

There are slow pages for almost all browsers. http://blog.naver.com/applezhome makes my Konqueror unusable.

by Sam Weber (not verified)

Did anyone else experience yesterday that the dot == ark linux?

I typed in dot.kde.org and and the page at http://www.arklinux.org/ showed up. I was like, whoa :)

Good to see it back.

-Sam

by Jack H (not verified)

Yeah, KDE Dot seemed to be down for a while, and then just before it seemed to be working again I got the same thing as you! It was rather confusing :S

by Phase II (not verified)

The dot is hosted by Ark Linux (again).
Throw in a downtime, a configuration error and someone with his fingers glued onto the refresh button and you get this..! ;-)

by jameth (not verified)

I am a writer by trade and passion, and Kate is the best thing out there. When on a Mac, I can abide using TextEdit, so long as I switch it to plain-text mode, and even then it's only fine because the place I end up using Macs at has enormous monitors and I can have three windows open side-by-side.

On Windows, I have no options. Wordpad in text-only mode is acceptable, but has problems, and has no support for multiple files (and most Windows machines don't have the same cinema display monitors as the Macs). Notepad is a joke, and Word trys to fix my spelling!

All GNOME gives me is Gedit, which is only a couple steps ahead of Notepad, and if I try something like Abiword it has the lesser issues of MS-Word: thinking it should have page-borders and formatting and options.

In Kate, I can easily keep open all ten-to-fifteen things I'm working on 24-hours-a-day seven-days-a-week and it's always responsive and easy to use. It's just the flat-out best text editor around (well, vim gives some competition, but only for some specific tasks).

And again,
Thanks for Kate, it defines my workflow.

by jameth (not verified)

Also, I just added my vote and comments to bug 65740, the only issue I have with Kate. That is: please add an option to get a word-count for the selected text. Right now, I need to use a console and wc. Hopefully that can get added to improve an already great application.

by Amr Youssef (not verified)

Wish you all the best