Using KTextEditor plugins?

[Milian Wolff]

On Sunday, February 5, 2017 11:12:58 PM CET René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you read the KTextEditor documentation about plugins you get the
> impression that any application based on the framework should load those
> plugins automagically.
> 
> I tested this with a nice little plugin that launches remote searches in the
> Zeal docset browser. It only existed for KDE4, and once built its menu
> action indeed showed up in Kate4 and KDevelop4.
> 
> So I spent some time porting the plugin to KF5 and even managed to get it to
> be loaded by KDevelop. The only thing that doesn't work is plugin
> configuration. Is there any way to expose the config page via KDevelop?
> 
> The plugin code: github.com/RJVB/ZealSearch
> 
> BTW, is there a trick to get changes to a plugin's .desktop file be taken
> into account directly? Changes do end up in the intermediate .json file
> immediately, but the only way I found to get them into the final binary is
> to point the K_PLUGIN_FACTORY_WITH_JSON macro to an nonexistent file,
> build, fix the "error" and build again. That doesn't sound right.

We potentially not support all that's needed. Please debug yourself by going 
through the ktexteditor integration in kdevplatform/shell to see if anything 
is missing.

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Milian Wolff
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