KDevelop 3.0 beta 1

e8johan writes "The KDevelop team has released the first beta of KDevelop 3.0 a.k.a. Gideon (download here). The GUI has been completely rewritten, support has been added for more languages, auto-completion, etc. Plus a bundle of improvements, the change overview can be found here. Judging from the screenshots ( 1, 2 and 3) it looks even more promissing than I dared to hope for!"

Comments

Holy crap

[Apreche]

I've always used KDevelop for linux C and C++ development. Looks like I'll be using it for Java soon as well. Hooray!

Gack!

[FroMan]

Sure, it may look more complete than before. But that is awful looking! Why would any developer use such an ugly look. I assume you can change the 'bubbley-ness' to the look with a different theme, but to put out screen shots that look like that?

It reminds me of winxp my sister-in-law uses. That look is not clean. I like defined lines! I like squared edges on buttons. I don't like bubbles. I do not lick my desktop.

Make it go away!

Multi Language IDE

[J0ey4]

Is anyone aware of how extensive their support for non-C++ projects will be. Are they going to include full debugging capabilities? Perhaps have a javadoc tab similar to the current QT documentation tab?

This is extremely exciting stuff, I am not aware of any other IDE that let you develop in multiple languages AND multiple toolkits...if they are fully supporting those other languages and toolkits like they do with C++ and QT.....wow....I'm going to be using this for everything I do from now on.....

Re:Multi Language IDE

[uradu]

> I am not aware of any other IDE that let you develop in multiple languages AND multiple toolkits

On Linux maybe. You are aware that KDevelop is (more or less closely) tracking the Visual Studio IDE from Microsoft? It used to look A LOT like VC++, and with version 3 it's adopting the new VS.NET look and functionality, including the New Project dialog and the code expansion and collapsing features (the tree gadgets on the left of the code). Not that that's a bad thing, the VS.NET has some pretty neat features.

Re:Multi Language IDE

[Samrobb]

don't get me wrong, i like eclipse. I've used it periodically, but to say that it can handle multiple languages and toolkits is a bid misleading

Ummm... it can handle multiple languages and toolkits. I'm using it for Java, C, and C++ development (multiple languages), and for testing cross-platform development. I've used it to compile a Linux kernel, build a couple of GNU utilities, and compile GUI apps using GTK and QT.

Languages support is better in some instances than in others. C/C++ is more than usable; I haven't used any other language features, but I've seen messages from folks actively developing those features and using those languages.

As for "Python, C#, Aspect, Eiffel, and Ruby are all 3rd-party add-ons and not officially supported"... Eclipse is an open source project under IBM's CPL. The only difference, AFAICT, between "supported" and "unsupported" projects is that "supported" projects have Eclipse consortium members devoting resources to them.

Other than that, everyone has the same code, everyone uses the same APIs, and the Eclipse core team is just as likely to take a patch from a Python feature developer as a CDT or Cobol team developer. Eclipse is usable for developing in multiple languages and toolkits now, and that level of support and usablity is only going to increase as time goes by.