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I updated the bundles, now they are release builds of Kate & KWrite and they contain less frameworks. The size is only one half of the last bundles, less than 50 MB per app. Visit “Get It” for the download links or below.

Mac Application Bundles

• Kate 16.07.70 (Update 1)
• KWrite 16.07.70 (Update 1)

As we now have some binaries available for Windows & Mac, I renovated the “Get It” page.

You now have there links to the latest versions of our binaries (installer for Windows & application bundle for Mac) beside the link to the distribution packages for Linux/BSD/* as provided by our dear packagers.

For building Kate from sources, we now have the building instructions on a separate “Build It” page.

Right now, around 40 developers are working together on bringing KDE to other platforms in Randa (Switzerland) for an entire week.

So far, I just fixed some bugs, e.g.:

• Kate: Correctly restore view config of all split views (commit, bug, review)
• Kate: Sort Kate Session Menu alphabetically (commit, bug, review)
• Kate: Avoid hidden view spaces on start (commit, bug, review)
• Kate, KDevelop: Tab Switcher Plugin: Make sure the height fits all items (commit, bug)

Much more work is going on, especially also with bringing Kate to Mac OS, or making it work better on Windows. For instance, thanks to Kåre and David, renaming documents already works now, and soon the filesystem browser plugin will be available in the next Kate on Windows release :)

NOTE: Please refer to Get It for up-to-date Windows versions

It seems the Kate Alpha Release in January was well received by some users. So we are happy to announce that we are releasing an updated Windows installer for Kate (64bit) today. Essentially, this is the same version that is shipped with the KDE Applications 16.04 release under Linux.

• Kate-setup-16.04.1-64bit.exe (64bit) installer, compiled on Windows 10
• If you have git in your PATH, then the Kate Projects plugin will work as expected.
• As mentioned in the previous post, you may want to also install D-Bus for Windows, so that all documents opened use the same Kate instance.
• You can compile Kate yourself with Visual Studio 2015 community edition by following the steps in kate-windows.git. For me, a few tweaks were necessary, though: If some modules do not compile, just run the cmake build command again (and again). The “NMake Makefiles JOM” do not work for me, I had to use “Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64” generator. You can start the Visual Studio with `devenv KateOnWindows.sln`. If you have further questions, please contact us on the mailing list.

Screenshot of running Kate under Windows 10:

NOTE: Please refer to Get It for up-to-date Windows versions

It took some time but here is now an installer for Kate on Windows.

First the proof :)

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There are still some things that needs fixing. The current installer is built from git master and not from released packages so the translation stuff hat you usually get with the release packages are missing. So only partially translated. Another feature that I’m still missing is the spell-check. I need to still add a/hspell and language dictionaries to get that to work.

After a bit more work, toolbars (and other places ;=) have icons, too. More Kate plugins do work, like the nice project plugin I use the whole day, see:

Updated .dmg files can be found at (alpha quality, only tested on Mac OS 10.10):

ftp://kate-editor.org/cullmann/kate-20151024.dmg

Hi,

with my latest changes in kate.git, icons work, too, on windows and mac, without any qt patch, if you put some qt resource file containing breeze inside your share or Resources folder (one up from the application binary).

mac.txt contains the rcc calls needed to create such a package and all others things you need to run to get .dmg files. (you need Qt 5.5.0 + a recent CMake + XCode with command line stuff enabled)

Kate runs ;=)

But as you can see, we have no icons, but that is as no work was invested into it and not even any icons are installed ;=)

I will maintain a guide how to build it on mac in the kate.git/mac.txt file. At the moment, this is all not that nice. Kate is able to open files via file dialog and it renders OK, modulo some glitches.