LinuxJournal is carrying an introduction to the KDevelop development environment. “The aim of this article is to enable you to create an application with the KDevelop Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on a Linux/UNIX system running KDE 2. We explain this process by creating a sample application that gives some insight into the development framework and how it works. This might require getting your development environment set up correctly, so that you can work efficiently when getting started with your very own application or extension for the KDE 2 Desktop.”
“An IDE provides the user with a complete set of tools that integrate into one graphical environment. It's an enormous bonus for developers if the environment remains flexible enough to handle things separately or outside of the IDE, so they are not forced to use the IDE's features where they think other tools are more appropriate.”
“The KDE Project, comes with an IDE called KDevelop. This IDE can be used on any UNIX system to develop software, especially KDE software, but not limited to it. Many experienced UNIX programmers use it for plain C and C++ programming. “