Bug 300361

Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last year and no contributor stepped up to implement it.

The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs.

Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users.
If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it.

If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind,
if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it,
it will expire in a year again.

We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it.

Patches can be handed in via https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann

(In reply to Christoph Cullmann from comment #1)
> Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the
> last year and no contributor stepped up to implement it.
> 
> The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with
> fixing bugs.
> 
> Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed
> from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the
> users.
> If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some
> patch for it.
> 
> If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in
> mind,
> if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to
> implement it,
> it will expire in a year again.
> 
> We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the
> information needed to contribute, please make use of it.
> 
> Patches can be handed in via https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/
> 
> Greetings
> Christoph Cullmann

I still think that this feature would be beneficial for everybody, but I am not a KDE/QT. I am also a an open-source contributor in the Drupal community.
So I totally understand that this is a low priority issue, but it is a quite a surprise, to close this issue just because there are no enough resources to implement it.

However I tried to solve it my own. I had installed Kdevelop and I tried to go through the example projects and project templates but I could not compile them.
In total I spent ~7-10 days(!) to take the first step in order to contribute to the KDE source code, but the entry barrier is extremely high.
Maybe that's why the "The Kate/KTextEditor team" is small.

Hi, I am sorry that your experience to try to provide a patch was that bad :/

Given you want to patch the plugin, the easiest way to go would be to start with getting the stuff in kate.git compiled, like described on https://kate-editor.org/build-it/

Unfortunately that boot strap procedure isn't that easy to do.
And yes, that you need to be familiar with Qt/KDE & how to setup a development environment for sure is a barrier for people only wanting to contribute smaller things.

Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last two years and no contributor stepped up to implement it.

The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs.

Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users.
If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it.

If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind,
if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it,
it will expire in a year again.

We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it.

e.g. see the information at https://kate-editor.org/join-us/ for details

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann