KDE

Finally! Automatic Inline Spell Checking is Implemented in Kile

Posted Fri, 05/07/2010 - 11:22 by aravind
Enabling the automatic spell checking feature in Kile

Finally! I updated my Fedora 12 OS with some KDE updates this week and to my relief I saw the much awaited spell checking feature/bug was fixed. Now my favorite LaTeX editor is capable of checking spelling automatically. Additionally it can also suggest spellings as you type. Take a look at the thumbnails.

This is a very simple feature that is available in any basic text editor but unfortunately it was not implemented in Kile until now. My previous two blog entries, Hallelujah! In-line spell checking added to Kate and Inline Spell Checking May Finally be Implemented in Kate (and Kile) were premature and it took more than an year after my last post to actually see it.

Well at least now it is there, right on time for me; I need to start writing my dissertation pretty soon and this will really help me. Thanks to Kile and Kate developers.

Inline Spell Checking May Finally be Implemented in Kate (and Kile)

Posted Thu, 02/05/2009 - 08:54 by aravind

My previous article titled "Hallelujah! In-line spell checking added to Kate" brought a lot of traffic to my site through google. This is one of the features that is non-existent in Kate and in Kile, which depends on Kate. I use Kile all the time and an inline spell checking feature would definitely make my life lot easier. On 2007-12-11 user FiNeX reported that "Spell check added on KDE4 version of kate." Unfortunately there have been a lot of issues (or confusion) with it since not may distro's ship the complete KDE4 platform and not all applications that depend on Kate have been ported completely to the KDE4 platform.

KDE 4.1 released today

Posted Tue, 07/29/2008 - 12:54 by aravind

KDE 4.1 release was announced today. Keys release features include improvements to plasma, improvements to Dolphin, Konqueror and Gwenview.

In KDE 4.0 there were a few issues that I experienced with Gwenview, Dolphin and sometimes with Konqueror. Dolphin and Konqueror crashed occasionally while Gwenview would open an image without it menu bar. Hopefully those issues were fixed in this release.

KDE 4.0 Released

Posted Sat, 01/12/2008 - 15:07 by aravind

KDE 4.0 has finally been released. It will replace KDE 3.5 in Fedora 9 release. KDE 4.0 is a big leap towards a very modern desktop and this release is not by any means an incremental release.

KDE 4.0 Beta 2 Released

Posted Fri, 09/07/2007 - 12:48 by aravind

Folks at KDE announced the second beta of the well awaited KDE 4.0 yesterday. If you are brave to build from source check it out here. Kubuntu and openSUSE should have pre-compiled binaries in their repositories.

KDE 4.0.0 delayed

Posted Fri, 08/31/2007 - 09:03 by aravind

We saw yesterday that Fedora 8 will not ship with KDE 4.0. Apparently it was announced today that KDE 4.0.0 will not be released until late December. Check out the current release schedule. Hopefully we can expect to see it in Fedora 9.

Fedora 8 without KDE 4

Posted Thu, 08/30/2007 - 11:38 by aravind

Rex Dieter, one of the maintainers responsible for KDE 4 in Fedora 8 announced today in his blog that "KDE4 off the table for Fedora 8".