The 'scripts' menu item

[Vladimir Prus]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:47, Jens Dagerbo wrote:

> > Hi,
> > stock KDevelop has a menu item named "Scrips". For a freshly build 
> > kdelibs/kdebase/kdevelop that menu is empty, and the KDevelop installed
> > from  
> > Debian package has a "Test script" entry which replaces the window content 
> > with output of "ls".
> > 
> > The UI does not make it clear how one edits those scripts, and that "ls" 
> > script is hardly useful. As it stands, this menu item can only confuse
> > users. 
> > 
> > Maybe, we should either remove it completely, or make it hidden by
> > default? 

> Removing it is as simple as unloading the "scripting support"(?? not
> sure the name is correct, this is from memory) plugin.
>
> As for how it works, check with Ian Geiser.

Ian,
can you comment on how scripting support is to be used? While KDevelop has UI 
to set additional scripts directories, there are no docs about how to write 
scripts, which makes this feature a bit confusing for novices.

Thanks,
Volodya