Texlipse Plugin

If you are an Eclipse fan and in love with LaTeX, you should try the eclipse plugin Texlipse. It seems to be still in its infancy, but works fine for general needs.

• Has command completion with Ctrl+space.
• Can invoke latex command internally to compile the project.
• Can spawn xdvi for viewing compiled dvi files.
• Can handle complicated projects with \input and \include commands.
• Can keep all the temporary files in a separate directory.
  

Confusing, irritating, and missing features:

• It does not have a separate perspective. (Still, it doesn't matter, once installed, it enable additional menus when you open a .tex file.)
• You better compile with the "build automatically" ON. Otherwise, you will be force to do a lot of "clean, build."
  
• There is no way to select a text and apply a latex command to it (for example, change the font style to italics or bold.)
• Auto-format does not work.
• Working with spell-check is not that intuitive.
  

Globally Installing LaTeX Style Files

If you want install a LaTeX style file in Ubuntu/Kubuntu globally so that all the users in the system can access it, put it inside a directory (say misc) in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex and run the mktexlsr command from a command line. You have to have root privileges for both the above steps.