KTextEditor Plugins

[Sven Brauch]

On Sunday 22 December 2013 16:19:00 Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> e.g. the current Kate application interfaces would make a good starting
> point, guess needs to be just shrinked down.
Yes, quite possible. We should sit together at the sprint and discuss what 
kinds of things we want to have in the interface and which of those both 
applications can easily provide.

> Btw., does KDevelop support multiple main windows or is this then again a
> new process?
No. We have discussed this before, currently we don't support it at all. I 
think launching a new process it not a solution for KDevelop, because unlike 
kate we keep a large amount of language data in memory, and launching a new 
process would need to duplicate all this data. Additionally, our current 
architecture allows each session (which is bound to a language data 
repository) to be opened only once, because the underlying database system 
does not support concurrent access by multiple processes.

> I was about thinking to go for Kate to the "each main window is an own
> process" scheme, too. This would make the interfaces A LOT less complex, as
> each plugin would have only one view, even the plugin/view split could be
> removed.
I'm still not sure I understand this: If you want to keep split view (which I 
would really not remove), plugins always have to deal with multiple views 
anyways. The "two windows" doesn't really introduce any additional complexity 
over split view, or does it?

Greetings,
Sven