The Kate Text Editor - February 2021

Like in January 2021, a lot of stuff happened for Kate in February 2021, too. I will skip the stuff that I already reported on Valentine’s Day. The web site for example has still a new design and some people are still working behind the scenes to improve it! Let’s take a look at which cool new stuff you can expect to have in the 21.04 release of Kate. If you are adventurous: build the current development version yourself and try the stuff today. Feedback & patches welcome!

Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2021 Improves the Task Manager, Thunar, and More

The star of this month is Xfce’s Task Manager, which received two updates for its stable 1.4.x series up to version 1.4.2, to implement better color that works well with both light and dark themes, as well as to fix various bugs. In addition, development kicked off on the next major Task Manager series that will come with the Xfce 4.18 release, which introduces many changes and improvements, including support for Client-side decorations (CSD), the migration of all of its settings to the Settings dialog, port to xfconf, and much more.

Top 10 Version Control Systems for Linux

Version control systems are programs that record changes in filesystems, source code, or software. They are integral to agile software development. Depending on the design, you can categorize them into two types---centralized and distributed. Thankfully, we can choose from several robust version control systems for Linux. This guide outlines some of the best such tools for starting software developers and DevOps professionals.

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