| Summary: | External Tools plugin does not work in Windows | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kate | Reporter: | Bill Goodman <bg+kdex> |
| Component: | application | Assignee: | KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | christoph, waqar.17a |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Microsoft Windows | ||
| OS: | Microsoft Windows | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/commit/cab37b66ae807b34da2f38fd09e6fdeebd7cbbf8 | Version Fixed In: | 25.08.0 |
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Description
Bill Goodman
2025-07-03 21:28:37 UTC
Its most likely because Kate is unable to find the tools on your system. When a tool isn't found, it is hidden. That is rather strange, they should just be appear there disabled. Ok, I see, they will not appear at all, if on first run the tools where not there, on can later re-add the default ones in the settings dialog. That seems a bit suboptimal. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1804 Git commit 54963d60c005a41a80ef05f99c655c46e347587c by Christoph Cullmann. Committed on 05/07/2025 at 18:06. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'. add all tools, even the non-executable ones they will now be disabled in updateActionState M +20 -22 addons/externaltools/kateexternaltoolsview.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/commit/54963d60c005a41a80ef05f99c655c46e347587c Git commit cab37b66ae807b34da2f38fd09e6fdeebd7cbbf8 by Christoph Cullmann. Committed on 05/07/2025 at 20:23. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'release/25.08'. add all tools, even the non-executable ones they will now be disabled in updateActionState (cherry picked from commit 54963d60c005a41a80ef05f99c655c46e347587c) Co-authored-by: Christoph Cullmann <christoph@cullmann.dev> M +20 -22 addons/externaltools/kateexternaltoolsview.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/commit/cab37b66ae807b34da2f38fd09e6fdeebd7cbbf8 Thanks for reporting this. Can be tried in the next nightly build, too. (In reply to Christoph Cullmann from comment #7) > Thanks for reporting this. > > Can be tried in the next nightly build, too. I did not realize that tools had to be executable to be displayed. It appears that none of the tools are executable on my system, so no tools are ever displayed. I had created a new tool which also had an invalid executable, so it did not display either. After fixing the executable reference, my tool displays OK. I don't think I can test the fix above since none of the tools are executable on my system. Thanks for the quick response! |