I''m trying to find a good IDE for X, any suggestions? I can imagine a lot of you guys are all in to using emacs or pico, but I am just looking for something that can manage projects well. The best I''ve seen so far is KDevelop, but they still have a lot of bugs to work out. One more thing - I have a scroll wheel on my mouse which I have become addicted to on windows. Is there any way to get this working with X? NickW

Try Anjuta , even just the editor is worth the download and installation. And it handle projects too.
As a newbie, I never used the projects option, I works with makefile.

Regarding the scroll-wheel, yeah, it''s not too hard to do, just hard to figure out what you have to do.

Go into your XF86Config or XF86Config-4. Under Section "InputDevice", change Option "Protocol" from PS/2 to ImPS/2. That should do it, assuming everything else is correct.

ben.c

You have to add something about ZAxisMapping too... I forget what the option is exactly, and I''d post it for you, but I''m not on my Linux box right now. If you don''t get it to work, post again, and I''ll copy and paste the relevant lines from my XF86Config file.

rm -rf /bin/laden

KDEStudio isn''t too bad either although I don''t think they''re updating it any more.

I''d also like to take the time to say that I usually just use Nedit and the auto tools for Linux development

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The best I've seen so far is KDevelop, but they still have a lot of bugs to work out.

What kind of bug are you talking about ? I've almost never used KDevelop but intent to use it so I'm curious about this.

Edited by - Prosper/LOADED on January 25, 2002 10:24:49 PM

The problems with KDevelop are pretty minor. Overall I think it works well as far as generating projects/makfiles which eventually lead to RPMs.

Some of the problems I''ve encountered are:
-When you compile, the output of ''make'' is piped to a window incorrectly (you get "artifact" characters at the beginning of each line). This makes me mad when I try to dbl-click on the error (which should bring up the problem file) but since there are screwy characters in there, it can''t find the file and crashes.
-It uses a lot of memory (I have 512 megs, and if I''m running anything besides KDevelop it gets laggy)
-The class browser is nice, but it doesn''t work all the way (my functions never show up)
-It crashes every once in a while and I can''t figure out why.
-The built in debugger doesn''t work well, and it won''t let you use ddd/gdb to debug it either...
-When you click on somewhere in the text, it doesn''t go to the end of the line if there is no more text after/before it.

I think if I could use my scroll wheel, I would overlook all of these things, but it just takes so much time to move my mouse over to the scroll bar, and figure out where I want to go =(

I just write a makefile and use Advanced Editor to edit source(and that''s just for highlighting). I usually have multiple instances of the editor over many desktops to keep track of certain stuff I''ve written.

With KDE2.2.2 there is also Kate which can have multiple files open within the editor, and I think would work just as well.

KDevelop is ok, I just felt it was kind of awkward (to used to VC I guess ). All though, I didn''t really use it enough to give it a chance.

use gVim, it even lets you compile stuff (:make)

/Mikael_j