Building Kate from Sources on Linux Right now, Kate's source code is located on the invent.kde.org GitLab instance. This tutorial explains how to build Kate without touching your global installation. All stuff will happen inside an extra development directory. This avoids the need for administrator rights and allows always to fallback to use the global installed Kate if the currently build version is broken. As this tutorial will introduce a setup that allows to develop other parts of the KDE...| Kate
Kate has been supported on Windows for a long time however, we missed one crucial feature on Windows that made it not as good as Kate on Linux. That feature was the built-in terminal. If you are a developer you might have to use the terminal a lot and having a built-in terminal inside your editor can be really helpful and convenient. With 23.04, we have filled this gap. After a hectic weekend of 20+ hours of hacking on a borrowed windows machine and sacrificing a lot of other things, Kate now...| Kate