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ZMX

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Friday, April 28th 2006, 9:00pm

KDE on Windows?

I know this sounds wierd and all
but I was wondering an couldn't find
KDE for Windows, but found it for all other
OS and Distros. GNOME the same way, too
they too. I know Windows Desktop Enviroment
is a Rival, which I fully understand. Just so you
know I favor KDE Desktop Enviroment more
than all the rest.

soo just wondering will KDE port
the project to Windows version as well
to make the people of windows user open
there mind and close there mouth.
lol just kiddng :P
or am I ?(

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Friday, April 28th 2006, 9:54pm

RE: KDE on Windows?

Windows support is planned for KDE 4, but it may take some time until this is released.
Bram Schoenmakers
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Friday, June 30th 2006, 3:47am

RE: KDE on Windows?

[KDE]
in Windows need to become a reality!
I bet people will convert if they start using KDE! :rolleyes:
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Friday, June 30th 2006, 4:44am

I'm also interested in a way to run KDE apps in Windows. I think right now the only way to do that is through the KDE on Cygwin project, but it only uses KDE 3.4.3, and a lot of fixes have been done in KDE 3.5.x

I'm particularly interested in just a few apps that I couldn't find any good equivalent in Windows, namely:
- Konqueror (I guess it's self explanatory)
- Kontact including Akregator (Thunderbird lacks an organizer feature)
- KOffice, especially KOffice Workspace (I only use OpenOffice to save documents in MS Word .doc format)
- KTorrent (one of the best bittorrent clients I've ever encountered)
- Amarok (simple but powerful)
- Superkaramba (Yahoo!Widgets and Google desktop just doesn't do it for me)

(Sometimes, I have to use Windows because of my sister, who I don't think would like Linux very much)

Btw, I just thought you might be interested to know that the Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Live CD includes some free software for Windows, which you can install by putting in the CD while you are in Windows. The interesting part is that it can install two KDE-PIM programs: Address Book and Calendar. I was wondering, if they were able to do have those two run on Windows, wouldn't it be possible to have the whole Kontact package run, too?

Here's the link to the Kubuntu page: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/6.06-lts-release.php
OS: Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) | KDE 3.5.3
Computer Specs: AMD Sempron 2200 1.5Ghz | VIA KM266 Pro 8235 chipset | nVidia GeForce MX 4000 128MB DDR-RAM 32-bit AGP 8x

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Friday, June 30th 2006, 7:56am

Buy your sister an early Christmas present, win4linpro, she can run her Window$ apps on your Linux distro. You can also get soem of those Window$ apps to run under wine.
Win4linpro has trial offer, full blown system for 15 days, if yoiu like it keep it pay the fee and keep sis happy with her Window$ running under Linux. As she end up seeing more and more of the Linux system and how here windows has less problems she'll want to make the change herself.
Also both of you take a look at these post, if this doesn't want her to leave Window$ then maybe she needs help, just kidding, but do read the posts.
http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/windoze-howto.html
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4488
[URL=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html]http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

Those will make anyone shake in their boots.

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "silvagroup" (Jun 30th 2006, 8:01am)


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Friday, July 14th 2006, 4:44am

like-ability of Linux by your sister issue

I'm new to LInux but surprised you think your sis wouldn't like it. I can't figure out much yet--am using cd roms for Red Hat I got from a Wiley "dummies" book and haven't even figured out yet how to get my Linux-blessed computer online, but I really love Linux many times more than Microsoft.I recently bought an old computer with Windows XP on it and it's gotten me back online, but XP is terminally ill by nature compared to KDE and GNOME., which I installed on another old computer when my MS 98SE crashed totally. I can't install Fedora yet because I just have a cd-rom drive, so ordered the cd's. I'm already amazed at the generosity and excellence of Linux-kde, compared to the selfishness of something like XP. Everything's just plain better-- except for the way geeks communicate. I appear to be headed to taking a RedHat class so I can get out of the lower dummies level. I haven't been influenced by the purported "myths" about this OS--just my limited experience. XP just seems like a big, selfish rip-off--few good features. I'm telling my friends to try Linux. I've installed a number of softwarish things (photos, for ex.) I got on cd roms geared for MS WIN. I haven't figured out how to install everything, but some COSMI stuff installs easily, and the rest I'll have to just figure out. Don't laugh at me, Geeks. This is all new to me.