1. Writing Kate plugins and enhancing Kate

2. About me

Abhishek Patil (http://thezeroth.net)

3. Software Engineer 4. Vcreate Logic Pvt. Ltd (http://vcreatelogic.com) 5. @abhishekworld 6. Why me?

A Qt/KDE developer

7. Mainly contributes to Kate 8. Tabify Plugin for kate (KDE 4.5) 9. And other features from kate's wishlist (KDE 4.5) 10. Aim of this talk!

Understand how kate plugins are written

11. Create Tabify Plugin 12. Kate Application base

Plugin Architecture

13. Based on KParts 14. Important classes in KATE

Kate::Application

15. Kate::MainWindow 16. Kate::DocumentManager 17. Kate::PluginManager 18. Kate::Plugin 19. Kate::PluginView 20. Kate::PluginConfigPageInterface 21. Bacis of Kate Plugin

3 Important Files in Kate Plugin

A desktop file with some information about the plugin

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 inkate yourpluginname.desktopformat. katetabify.desktop IMPORTANT 25. XmlGUI file Tabify Plugin The name of this file has to be ui.rc 26.

• The Library

class MyPlugin : public Kate::Plugin { Q_OBJECT public: // other methods etc... PluginView *createView(MainWindow *mainWindow) { return new MyPluginView(mainWindow); } }; 27.

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() }; 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 katetabifypluginDESTINATION ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR}) install(FILES ui.rcDESTINATION ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/kate/plugins/katetabify) install(FILESkatetabifyplugin.desktopDESTINATION ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR}) 30. Referances

http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdesdk-apidocs/kate/interfaces/kate/html/index.html

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