Presentation at Foss.in/2010 on Writing Kate plugin.

1. Writing Kate plugins and enhancing Kate

3. Software Engineer

4. Vcreate Logic Pvt. Ltd (http://vcreatelogic.com)

5. @abhishekworld

7. Mainly contributes to Kate

8. Tabify Plugin for kate (KDE 4.5)

9. And other features from kate's wishlist (KDE 4.5)

11. Create Tabify Plugin

13. Based on KParts

15. Kate::MainWindow

16. Kate::DocumentManager

17. Kate::PluginManager

18. Kate::Plugin

19. Kate::PluginView

20. Kate::PluginConfigPageInterface

22. An XmlGui rc file named ui.rc

23. A library containing the plugin

24. 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

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

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

29. 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})

31. http://kate-editor.org/2004/01/06/writing-a-kate-plugin/

32. http://kate-editor.org/featured-articles/

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