So you want to participate in developing Kate? Great! The project is always in need of helping hands.

If you need pointers, please visit the following pages:

• Central hub for information around Kate development: Just head to our website kate-editor.org.

• How to compile Kate on your machine? Read our Build it! tutorial.

• How to help out with the project? See our Join Us! page.

Contributions to kate.git shall be licensed under LGPLv2+ or MIT.

All files shall contain a proper "SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-or-later" or "SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT" identifier inside a header like:

/*
    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Christoph Cullmann <cullmann@kde.org>

    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-or-later
*/

/*
    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Christoph Cullmann <cullmann@kde.org>

    SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
*/

The apps folder contains both the Kate and KWrite applications itself and their shared implementation.

The apps/lib directory contains the shared sources of the Kate and KWrite applications.

Close to everything beside the main functions of the two applications is implemented there.

This is installed a shared library kateprivate that can be used by addons, too. The library isn't BC over releases, no headers to use it are installed to the system.

The apps/kate directory contains the Kate application sources.

Kate is using KUserFeedback for telemetry starting with release 20.04.

For details of the opt-in send information, see https://community.kde.org/Telemetry_Use

The apps/kwrite directory contains the KWrite application sources.

KWrite is using KUserFeedback for telemetry starting with release 22.08.

For details of the opt-in send information, see https://community.kde.org/Telemetry_Use

The addons directory contains in sub-directories the sources of all bundled plugins. These plugins are not only used by Kate itself but other KTextEditor compatible applications, like KDevelop.

The doc directory contains the Kate, KWrite & KatePart manuals.

The LICENSES directory contains the license files as referenced in the individual source files. For any used SPDX-License-Identifier the matching license should be located there.

Kate's mascot, Kate the Cyber Woodpecker, was designed by Tyson Tan.

More details can be found on our mascot page.