Final KDevelop 3.0 Alpha Released

e8johan writes "The KDevelop team has released the final alpha of KDevelop 3.0 (a.k.a. Gideon) has been released. This third generation of KDevelop looks really promising as it features plug-in editors, many wizards (even for Kicker apps, KControl modules and KIOSlaves). Some of the features that I like best are the support for cross compilation and support for more languages than C/C++. Screenshots are here, more info here, dot.kde article here!"

Comments

Re:confusing XP buttons deliberate?

[Anonymous Coward]

No. KDE does not run under Windows and probably never will. QT is cross-platform, but KDE is Unix-specific. The Unix/X11-specific things are everywhere, and not segregated into easy-to-replace components, so it would be difficult to get it to run on Windows.

You might be able to get KDE running under cygwin + XFree86 with the Unix version of QT, but that's not really running under Windows and that's not really very useful. It certainly wouldn't be using MFC or GDI or whatever it is on Windows that draws the XP-style widgets.

This is well-known. They are not trying to mislead, and you're probably the first person I hear saying "Windows" and "KDE" in the same sentence.

There is no "supported platforms" page for kdevelop, as it's a KDE program and I imagine it's not doing system-specific things, so it would probably work on any Unix platform where KDE works. You figure out if your platform is supported by downloading and compiling and submitting patches if something breaks. Hint: it will work on any Unix platform you'll be using soon, since I'm guessing from your post that you don't admin AIX/HPUX/Irix/other esoteric Unices.

The theme is gaudy and in poor taste, yes.

Re:confusing XP buttons deliberate?

[Tyler Eaves]

Bzzt, wrong answer Mcfly!

KDE can be run under cygwin.