SUMMARY Items specified in the External Tools plugin are not displayed in the Tools > External Tools menu. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Tools > External Tools menu OBSERVED RESULT Menu shows "Configure ..." but no tools are listed. EXPECTED RESULT Expect to see tools listed as they are on Linux. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: Windows 11 Pro 23H2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Problem seen on nightly version (2025-07-01) of Kate .
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!