Bug 445029

Summary:	Simple UI to create a new project
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Nowshed H. Imran <now.im.627>
Component:	application	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	christoph, waqar.17a
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	21.08.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Nowshed H. Imran 2021-11-05 15:50:23 UTC

SUMMARY
Almost every modern IDE has an option to set up a program workspace/project through a wizard. As Kate is not a very common IDE, I was baffled trying to create a new C project. After reading the documentation, it became clear to me, Kate needs manual intervention to create a project which is not user-friendly at all. For veteran developers this might be a no-brainer but for newbie like me, I would just use it as text editor and not look at it as IDE anymore which is such a lost potential. Kate needs to be user-friendly, and some blogs about how to use it will change its user base by a lot.

Comment 1 Waqar Ahmed 2021-11-05 18:04:27 UTC

Hi, our documentation is unfortunately missing out on a lot of features that are there but not documented.

Kate doesn't really have a concept of projects in an ide sense. What it does have is the ability to open a folder along with its files very quickly requiring no effort. Here's how:

From the terminal, go to the directory you want and then just type:

kate .

Kate will load whatever directory you were in as a project. You can also just open Kate and then from the menu: File - Open Folder, to open a folder

Hope that answers your question.

Comment 2 Waqar Ahmed 2021-11-05 18:06:02 UTC

We need help with blogs and documentation, a lot of help. Maybe you can help us :)

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2021-11-05 19:35:54 UTC

Yes ;=)

And it is easy as never before, you can just provide a merge request to

https://invent.kde.org/websites/kate-editor-org

to help to improve this.

Comment 4 Nowshed H. Imran 2021-11-06 08:45:41 UTC

I intend to help with blogging. There is really no blog that shines this editor.