Develop Kate plugin (for Ollama integration)

[Kåre Särs]

Hi,

Nice that you are interested in working on stuff with Kate :)

Unfortunately for you on Debian Sid, all Kate development has moved to Qt6 and 
KF6 over a year ago. Any changes you would need to upstream would have to go 
to the Qt6 version...

That said you could test to get a plugin working by using KAppTemplate to 
create a Kate plugin. With that template it should be possible to install the 
plugin to the right system location with CMake

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../
cmake --build .
sudo cmake --build . --target install

Hope that helps,

Br,
  Kåre
 
On Tuesday, 18 March 2025 16.55.34 Eastern European Standard Time Daniele 
"Mte90" Scasciafratte wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am on Debian Sid, and I am not very skilled with C++ but I am trying to do
> a plugin to integrate Ollama inside Kate.
> 
> There is https://github.com/arturbac/kdevcxx_with_ai but is only for OpenAI
> and I have issues on compiling (already reported) and the dev are not very
> responsive.
> 
> Following https://develop.kde.org/docs/apps/kate/plugin/ I was able to do
> https://github.com/Mte90/kate-ollama
> 
> The problem is that on installing the plugin path is "-- Installing:
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/ktexteditor/kate-ollama.so" but Kate
> doesn't load it.
> 
> The plugin of course is not complete as I want to do some testing and
> probably improve the UX but if I am not able to try it...
> 
> What I am missing?