Events/Akademy/2010/KDevelopBoF

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This BoF is for advanced KDevelop3/Kate/Emacs/Vi/Eclipse/QtCreator/etc. users who would like to get deep and detailed information about KDevelop 4 first hands.

Topics:

usage patterns
- kdevelop as improved kate
- kdevelop as 1-project ide
- kdevelop as an ultimate work tool - many projects, sessions, etc.
- which usage patterns are best supported right now and why
what are sessions: intended use, scope, limitations
projects
- idea behind multiple projects
- multiple projects and buildiing
- multiple projects and other plugins
what happens behind the hood in UI
- what are areas: intended use, limitations
- what are workingsets: intended use, limitations
- concept of views, saving/closing views, views and areas
what happens behind the hood in c++ support
- how includes are found
  - when automatic resolver is used
  - which buildsystems and when can do
- how and when completion, assistant hints, refactoring etc. work
- what is duchain and what it does
- how to tune performance
how to create and use snippets
how to customize the IDE
- customizing editor (modelines, kateconfig)
- creating a custom shortcut scheme
- kdeveloprc - what's there, what to change
- quick overview of the extension architecture
- writing language support plugins: very brief intro
best workflows
- quickopen instead of class view
- navigation explained
  - what is context, what context navigation do
  - all other navigation features
  - tab/notab view management
Q/A