Unix like systems with X11 or Wayland All Unix like systems with either X11 or Wayland are well supported since ever. Linux with X11 and now Wayland is for a long time the primary system on that Kate work happens. Over the years it was, like most of the KDE applications, ported to various BSD variants. Be it some mainstream Linux distribution like Fedora or a niche one like NixOS, Kate is available as binary package....
The Qt 6 based KDE Frameworks 6 (KF6) development is ongoing since some time. Already many things including Plasma and several applications, like Kate, have working KF6 based development versions. KDE contributors did meet this week online for planning the final release time-frames. We came up with this current plan: Frameworks / Plasma/ Gear Release Schedule Plan Following on from the last Akademy we checked where we were with our development progress in a meeting and settled on the following plan for all 3 major parts:...
Wayland, the future after X11 Since years Wayland based compositors are promoted as the successors to the venerable X.org X11 display server. In the embedded space it seems Wayland already has made a lot of progress and some distributions start to use it per default, too. My experience of the past years I tried Wayland over the last few years multiple times, but I most often needed to go back to X11 due to random crashes/displaying issues/… (independent of the compositor, I tried a few)....
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I bought a MacBook end of 2014. My initial reason to buy it was to improve the Kate port for macOS. Beside that, I wanted to try if the Apple ecosystem and macOS are really that great and will solve all my issues in life (short answer: no, they aren’t, at least not for me). The HiDPI screen looked nice, too :=) After some initial “not a lot works”, if you don’t go the Homebrew or MacPorts way, the Kate port improved over the following years....