Writing plugins for Kate and enhancing Kate

Writing Kate plugins and enhancing Kate

About me
Abhishek Patil (http://thezeroth.net)
Software Engineer
Vcreate Logic Pvt. Ltd (http://vcreatelogic.com)
@abhishekworld

Why me?
A Qt/KDE developer
Mainly contributes to Kate
Tabify Plugin for kate (KDE 4.5)
And other features from kate's wishlist (KDE 4.5)

Aim of this talk!
Understand how kate plugins are written
Create Tabify Plugin

Kate Application base
Plugin Architecture
Based on KParts

Important classes in KATE
Kate::Application
Kate::MainWindow
Kate::DocumentManager
Kate::PluginManager
Kate::Plugin
Kate::PluginView
Kate::PluginConfigPageInterface

Bacis of Kate Plugin
3 Important Files in Kate Plugin
A desktop file with some information about the plugin
An XmlGui rc file named ui.rc
A library containing the plugin

Desktop File [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 X-Kate-Version=2.8 X-KDE-Library=katetabifyplugin ServiceTypes=Kate/Plugin Type=Service Icon=korganizer Name=Tabify X-Kate-MajorProfiles=Kate X-Kate-MinorProfiles=* Name of the files has to be in kate” yourpluginname”.desktop format. katetabify.desktop IMPORTANT

XmlGUI file <!DOCTYPE kpartgui> <gui name="tabifyplugin" library="katetabifyplugin" version="1"> <ToolBar> <text>Tabify Plugin</text> <Action name="tabbar_widget"/> </ToolBar> </gui> The name of this file has to be ui.rc

The Library
class MyPlugin : public Kate::Plugin { Q_OBJECT public: // other methods etc... PluginView *createView(MainWindow *mainWindow) { return new MyPluginView(mainWindow); } };

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class MyPluginView : public Kate::PluginView { Q_OBJECT public: MyPluginView(MainWindow *mainWindow); // possibilities of gui: // - hook into the menus with KXMLGUIClient // - create a toolView and put a widget into it // with MainWindow::createToolView() };

Code http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/kate/plugins/tabify/

Compile your plugin CMakeList.txt find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED) include (KDE4Defaults) include_directories(${KDE4_INCLUDES}) kde4_add_plugin(katetabifyplugin tabify.cpp) target_link_libraries(katetabifyplugin ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS} ${KDE4_KPARTS_LIBS} kateinterfaces) install(TARGETS katetabifyplugin DESTINATION ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR}) install(FILES ui.rc DESTINATION ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/kate/plugins/katetabify) install(FILES katetabifyplugin.desktop DESTINATION ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR})

Referances
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdesdk-apidocs/kate/interfaces/kate/html/index.html
http://kate-editor.org/2004/01/06/writing-a-kate-plugin/
http://kate-editor.org/featured-articles/

Thank You.... Questions??? [email_address] @abhishekworld http://thezeroth.net

Writing plugins for Kate and enhancing Kate

by Abhishek Patil on Dec 30, 2010

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