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Pâté, Kate and Kubuntu (KDE 4)

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Posted by Evandro Myller on August 10, 2009 – 4:31 am
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It’s quite a long time I’ve been trying to run this awesome plug-in for Kate (Pâté) on my Linux box, a Kubuntu jaunty (with KDE 4.3).

Recently, when I got contact with Paul, the Pâté creator, we got it working here (Thanks, Paul!). I was very excited to see things like expanders working on Kate, and I like – very much – to have the power to enhance my favorite text editor easily.

So, here’s the magic I gotta do to install Pâté:

$ sudo aptitude install cmake kdelibs5-dev kdesdk-dev python-kde4-dev python-qt4-dev sip4

After that, you’re ready to compile Pâté and enjoy it. Compiling: In a shell, switch to the Pâté directory that you just downloaded from the git repository.

Then, run these commands (you might be familiar with them):

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. --DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(kde4-config --prefix)
$ make
$ sudo make install

There are some cool bundled plug-ins already. Can’t wait to use them?

$ cp -r src/plugins $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/kate/pate

One of these plug-ins is the awesome Expander, that can add code snippets to your code like Textmate does. Cool, huh? Now, start Kate, go to the plug-in list and voilà. Pâté is there. enable it and happy coding!

I noticed that it’s very easy to develop a python plugin for Kate. Please help us to make Kate even better and share your ideas with the community!

IRC: #kate @ Freenode

Kate color schemes

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Posted by Evandro Myller on June 21, 2009 – 2:04 pm
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I’m getting more impressed with the KDE news each day. One of the greatest tools I found on it is its default text editor, Kate. However, I’ve been looking for new color schemes (personally I hate to code on white background), but I didn’t find anything that I could use on the new Kate (KDE 4.2+).

Today a friend of mine just installed Kubuntu 9.04 in his machine. One of the first things he did was change the KDE color scheme to a darker one. Then he started out Kate and voilà! Kate also followed the color scheme that was set to KDE itself. No, don’t go try it right now.

Ok, I went to my PC like a child runs for a lolipop to change my KDE’s color scheme. Changed it; what now? Oh, start Kate. Damn, I didn’t notice any change on syntax highlighting. Everything else (related to Qt) was darker. Everything but my Kate color scheme. You know, I just got frustated. Anyway, still didn’t quit.

Desperate, I immediatelly closed Kate, removed every Kate config file from my system – please don’t do that – then started it again. Whoah! Its color scheme was darker too! First thing I did: try to save that color scheme (Settings » Configure Kate » Fonts & Colors). Done; yay! I got a darker color scheme. Then I tried to copy the color schemes from other KDE ones by closing Kate, changing KDE color scheme then starting Kate again. Once again I got sad: The color scheme didn’t change. It was just the same than the previous scheme.

kate screenshot

I started to hack on the Kate’s config files ~/.kde/share/config/kateschemarc and ~/.kde/share/config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc and I noticed that the scheme kate - Normal was there. Once it should inherit the global KDE colors, it shouldn’t have any predefined color setting. I just erased it and restarted Kate. Alright this time, it inherited the global colors as it should do. Then I repeated all this process for almost all the color schemes I have on my KDE.

You can get the files I did for myself here. If you don’t have any personal change to these files, you can safely overwrite them with my ones. Now, finally, I have my favorite text editor with various dark color schemes, and so you can do easily. [If you write another scheme, share with us!] ;)