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Introducing KDevelop TechNotes

Posted by timothy on from the from-the-field dept.

adymo writes "Yesterday I have started a series of KDevelop IDE related articles. I called them "KDevelop TechNotes" and I plan to publish all useful information about the IDE - tips and tricks, use cases, tutorials, etc. Everyone is welcome to share KDevelop knowledge by writing their own issues of technotes. I will be pleased to publish them on the project website www.kdevelop.org.
The first issue should be a matter of no little interest to all free software developers. Read on to learn more about KDevelop Assistant - an advanced API documentation viewer." A second issue is out, too, demonstrating a quick (two-minute) GUI app built with Qt.

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  1. From what I've seen by mandrake*rpgdx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    KDev is pretty impressive. It's like an open-source VC++ without all of the baggage, and on Linux. This just might be one of the killer apps on Linux to get people to switch over. We need less cross-platform util's on Linux, and more killer apps made just for it if we want people to start switching over.

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    1. Re:From what I've seen by Bob+The+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      What are you, stoned?

      You know what apps made it easier for me to switch to linux (years ago)? AbiWord and Mozilla, because they were cross platform. Ya know what kept a windows install on that computer for years? mIRC and Eudora. Why? Because I looked at the native linux apps (xchat and the old kmail) and was thoroughly unimpressed. I spent a lot of time on mIRC and had lots of scripts that made it do exactly what I wanted to do, I didn't want to spend the time to convert those to xchat scripts. I personally still don't like the way xchat looks (xchat2 is a nice improvment, though). Similarly, my mail, addresses and filters were already set up and working great in Eudora, I didn't want to mess with importing that to KMail which I liked a lot less at the time.

      I eventually did switch over, but native applications weren't much of a selling point to me. It's hard to justify switching from one application to another one that isn't compatible.

      Bill

  2. Shining example of the power of KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm a Gnome person, but KDevelop is one shining example of the power of the KDE framework. Gnome is years away from having anything with the power of KDevelop.

    I've never understood why top Gnome people didn't subtly encourage of something like KDevelop. Sorry anjuta, but it's not even in the same league.

    I guess some kiddies think they are elite just using command line tools like vim. Oh well, eclipse has a nice C++ parser now, and it uses gtk+ as the native toolkit.