A note to the kdevelop developers

William Bolish <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:31:30 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop
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    A note to the kdevelop developers

I installed kdevelop [Version 6.4.251202 (25.12.2)] on Win 10
I have 3 versions of qt: 6.9.3, 6.10.1, 6.11.0 installed.
I have Visual Studio 2026 Insider installed.
I have built qt  applications with qt and this VS, so I know the
    VS build environment is installed properly.
I am also a retired professional developer.

Your script "C:\Program Files\KDE\KDevelop\bin\kdevelop-msvc.bat
    did not work with VS2026 Insider, so I modified it find
    and successfully run for the VS installation.
If I run kdevelop after this, it will
     just loop forever once I open the cmake project.

I have never used this before and thought since it is used
    by the kde development team, it would be intuitive
    and easy to use cross-platform; i.e., use qt.
I'm doing this because I am moving from windows to linux and
    want to find a development environment as good as VS.

VS-Code is definitely not it, since it is not even intuitive
    to use. How does one make a tool without a build menu item?!
    And when you have an error after building with the context
    menu, the build entry disappears. Just stupid architecture.

But I am wrong. Kdevelop is not ready for prime time. You know that
    VS is installed in either "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)"
    so why are you looking in the registry. The registry entry the
    batch script references was not installed on my machine. You
    use an installer, yet you don't include an uninstaller. Crude,
    AND not friendly; yet not portable.
Also the documentation does not reference whether the script must
    initiate invokation of kdevelop or not, since the variables it
    defines are not saved in permanent environment.
How funny that a development tool used to develop many applications
    is absolutely not refined. Microsoft knows that its development
    IDE must be refined and is how they own the windows market.

What tools are your programmers using to develop cross-platform apps??
From a web search, it seems that CLion may be more intuitive, but
    I have not installed it yet.

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appears. Just stupid architecture.<br><br>But I am wrong. Kdevelop is not r=
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. Crude,<br>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 AND not friendly; yet not portable.<br>Also the d=
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itiate invokation of kdevelop or not, since the variables it <br>=C2=A0 =C2=
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