Comments on: Science and KDE: kile

By: Paolo

Paolo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:11:11 +0000

@woto: I use the opensuse rpms and they are quite stable. It crashed twice on closing the program in my now week-old use of Kile 2.1.SVN, but in both cases I did not lose any data. It has some hidden new features but mainly it is now consistent with my KDE4 desktop.

@einar: thanks for the review, it made me look for kile-kde4 (I was waiting for it!) and then I found it.

By: woto

woto — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:28:49 +0000

Is there any release schedule for kile 2.1? To have only one kde3 app on the computer is kind of annoying and I don’t want to switch to SVN if it’s still unstable. Loosing hours of work just because of a crashing application is more than just annoying. But I’m actually thinking about installing 2.1-svn anyway to take a look at it.

By: lion

lion — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:04:52 +0000

Hi all,

if you use kile it is not unlikely that you are also interested in a kde program to organize your scientific literature, and in particular associated bibliographic information. I love kbibtex for this, see
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex/ . Currently it is kde3, but the port to kde4 is planned for the next future.

By: maninalift

maninalift — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:45:06 +0000

Note, to my great delight, this is also available from openSUSE build service:

http://software.opensuse.org/search

search for kde-kile (NB the version number will be 2.0.xx as it’s pre-release)

By: Einar

Einar — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:46:37 +0000

@gromgull: In the options there’s a checkbox called “Toggle Spell-check On the Fly”, so it may be the one you’re mentioning.

By: gromgull

gromgull — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:36:04 +0000

As far as I remember, the great feature promised for the kde4 port was using the new kate-edit component that apparently does inline spell-checking.

Now… Does it?

By: Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:23:55 +0000

A port to KDE4 isn’t worthy of a major version increment?! Does kile have to cure cancer before it can earn 3.0? :)

By: Antonio Salazar Cardozo

Antonio Salazar Cardozo — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:58:50 +0000

@KDEuser — that’s essentially what LyX is. It’s a more WYSIWYG-like frontend for LaTeX. They call it `WYSIWYM’ — what you see is what you *mean*. It’s actually relatively good for exploring LaTeX’s abilities, and then you can study its LaTeX export results to figure out how to do certain things in LaTeX.

By: KDEuser

KDEuser — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:28:15 +0000

It would be great if all the power of kile and LaTex was offered in a way that the reset of us mere mortals could actually understand.

I have played around enough with it to see where it could really kick ass, but it is too difficult to master without devoting a whole month of life, which I currently don’t have. If some of these tools had a learning mode that could be disabled by more advanced users, it would really help.

Nonetheless, I will master LaTex one day.

By: Einar

Einar — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:06:37 +0000

@nixternal: Whoops, thanks for noticing. I fixed the entry.
@fullmetalcoder: A Qt4 application is not completely integrated in KDE, that is why I didn’t search for Qt equivalents like TexMakerX.