The KDevelop-Project was founded in 1998 to build up an easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for KDE. Since then, the KDevelop IDE is publicly available under the GPL and supports many programming languages.

There are three KDevelop-based applications:

The KDevelop IDE â?? this is the place where you will usually work.

The stand-alone KDevelop Assistant documentation browser â?? isolates all the powerful documentation facilities of the KDevelop IDE in a separate tool. This comes in handy when you want to look up some programming documentation but do not want to start the full IDE.

The KDevelop Designer â?? enhances the Qtâ?¢ User Interface Designer by KDE specific elements and integrates nicely in the KDevelop IDE.


KDevelop integrates a lot of tools, scripts, and templates in a common user interface. Basically it consists of

several user interface modes from which you can select the look and feel of the workspace,

an Application Wizard which aids you in setting up a new project,

several project management systems which aid in building and managing your project,

some editing tools to easily work on your program texts

various file browsers providing you different views on your file system,

various class browsers to aid you in maintaining the classes and their relationships of your object-oriented programming project,

a debugger interface to find and remove program errors from within KDevelop, and

several plugin tools, extensible modules which can be loaded at runtime and on demand. This allows you to only turn on those features you really need.

a set of other diagnosis, documentation, and optimization helper tools.