[KDE/Mac] Kate / KDevelop Sprint

Andrius da Costa Ribas andriusmao at gmail.com
Sun Nov 30 23:53:45 UTC 2014


As of now kf5-kate builds fine on windows (plugin loading in kf5 still
needs some love,  though, so lots of functionality are missing in kate UI,
as well as in other apps). KF5 modularity is indeed a step towards
single-app installers, by reducing the dependency bloatwarehell, and Kate
is indeed a very good use case.


Em 26/11/2014 14:29, "Doug" <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> escreveu:

> On 11/22/2014 05:39 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
>
>>
>>  On 2014-11-22, at 07:50, John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:
>>> I really can't emphasise enough how good an idea this is. As someone
>>> who spends a lot of time on Windows and Mac machines I know how poor
>>> the alternative text editors are and how much I miss Kate when I can't
>>> install it. We could win many Win/Mac developers as users if we had an
>>> easy to deploy package on both platforms, and it would be a good
>>> 'gateway drug' to them making use of KF5 in their own code. Having a
>>> small targeted goal like deploying Kate would be also give the Win and
>>> Mac teams clear achievable goals to work towards in getting KF5 ready
>>> with active feedback from the Kate community.
>>>
>>
>> I agree on both points. Both Mac and Windows lack a simple installer, and
>> in reality sometimes all I want on OS X is Kate (a proper KDevelop would be
>> nice too).
>>
>> I use Kate on OS X almost daily building out of MacPorts. Most issues
>> seem to be related to OS integration and retina (high DPI) support. Isn't
>> this a thing with KDE on other platforms as a whole? This would not only
>> fix Mac, but it would also fix how KDE functions on a high DPI screen (on
>> other platforms besides OS X).
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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>>  KDE for Windows lets you install Kate. You don't have to install the KDE
> desktop, just Kate and , if you like, Find Files.
>
> --doug
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