Kate plugins - running without installing

[Stefan Rödiger [GMX]]

On 25.01.20 20:51, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi!
hi!
>
> Two quick notes about the current development version of RKWard:
>
> 1) RKWard can now load ate plugins. As of now, "Search in Files",
> "Snippets", and "Projects" are hard-coded to be loaded (if they are
> available), so this brings quite a few strong new features, right there.
>
> A bunch of further plugins are available, but I'll need to add a
> settings page to configure which plugins to load.
>
> One thing to look out for when testing these new features is the
> placement of menu items. I'm not quite sure about the best approach,
> here, but e.g. I have merged the "Projects" and "Tools" top level menus
> into "Edit". There is also the question, whether actions provided by
> plugins should be visible *all* of the time, or only while the
> corresponding plugin tools windows are active.
This is great news. I will try to get my hands on it ASAP.
>
> 2) If you want to give the above a try, this has just become another
> step easier on Linux / BSD: You can now run RKWard directly from the
> build tree, without "sudo make install". This way you can even test the
> development version in parallel to a regularly installed version of
> RKWard (do note that the config is shared, however).
ok
>
> Regards
> Thomas

Kind regards

Stefan