Getting started with KXmlGui

Discover KDE Frameworks and start building your first classic KDE desktop application.

This tutorial will guide you in creating a small text editor using KTextEditor , KXmlGui for the window and KIO for saving and loading files.

KXmlGui is built on top of QtWidgets and provides several libraries easily create your user interfaces with C++. QtWidgets is a mature technology with several premade components to easily create user interfaces, and it is strongly geared towards non-convergent, traditional desktop interfaces.

The knowledge gained from this tutorial will introduce you to several KDE libraries that are managed with C++, and should prove useful for other tutorials, like Kirigami.

Hello World!

Your first window using KDE Frameworks

Creating the main window

This tutorial shows you the magic of an application's most important thing: the main window.

Using actions

How to add actions to the menus and toolbars.

Saving and loading

Introduces the KIO library while adding loading and saving support to our application.

Command line interface

Adds the ability to specify which file to open from the command line to our text editor.