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Matt Tennant
Matt Tennant

Reputation: 33

Kate External Tools plugin missing

I have installed Kate Editor (with KWrite, which installs some plugins) in Ubuntu 15.04, and I have just realized that the Kate External Tools plugin is missing since version 4.8.
I really need this plugin, and if anyone could show me where to find an older Kate version or even the plugin itself I would really appreciate that.

By the way, I have found in this webpage the plugin, but (my Linux level is average) I am not able to install it: even the first command gives a problem, and you have to click on "actions" in the left bar... If someone could show me how to build it, that would be really helpful...

Thanks in advance!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 835

Answers (1)

dhaumann
dhaumann

Reputation: 1688

A Kate developer here: Unfortunately, the External Tools plugin was never ported to newer versions of KDE and in particular Plasma 5. There were changes in the plugin architecture, and due to some bugs and no maintainer, this plugin got lost.

We would be very happy to accept this plugin again in Kate's git repository, making it an official part of Kate again. But someone needs to implement it or port it to Kate 5. You can find more information in this bug report.

Update 2019-01-31: I am currently working on bringing this back to Kate: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17971 It will take another 2-3 weeks, though.

Update 2019-09-21: It is back, and will be released with the KDE Applications Release 19.12. See: https://kate-editor.org/post/2019/2019-09-21-external-tools-plugin/

Upvotes: 3

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