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Kate on KDE Frameworks 5

Sunday, 8 December 2013 | Christoph Cullmann


After the initial porting of KTextEditor interfaces and KatePart, now the Kate application itself runs on KF5, too.
It still has a LOT of issues (and I marked all commented out pieces with FIXME KF5), but at least, it launches and loads the essential file tree plugin and allows you to open files via the “Open” action. Any help in fixing the remaining issues is welcome (and removing deprecated cruft), but keep in mind, it might eat all the files you edit :)

That means now all stuff in the “frameworks” branch of kate.git beside the “addons” directory containing plugins/plasma stuff at least compiles and launches with KF5.

Now the question is how we handle further development. Shall we switch to “frameworks” for all major stuff in interfaces/part/application and only let feature work be done in the “master” branch for addons (which we then can port later on)?

Feedback is welcome ;)

Tags:  planet

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