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  KDE/Cygwin: KDE 2.2.1 On Windows Now Working!
KDE on Unix and other platforms Posted by Navindra Umanee on Saturday 24/Nov/2001, @06:47
from the blue-skreen-of-death dept.
Guillaume Laurent was the first of many to point out that the KDE on Cygwin project has successfully ported KDE 2.2.1 to Cygwin. What this basically means is that you can now have a recent KDE running under Windows with the help of Cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86. The full announcement is here. This is an early port in pre-alpha form so there are still problems, but a large part of the issue has been tackled. Many congratulations and kudos to the hackers involved. Now who's going to use this? Will there be a native windows port? Check out the faq for the answers to the most common questions.


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Binaries?
by bg on Saturday 24/Nov/2001, @08:59
Allthough I use Linux nearly all the time, I would like to
check this out on win32.

Is there a chance that we could get some binaries?
Ideally, they should include a complete tree, with qt and all the needed
cygwin/x stuff

I love kde
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Good or Bad? a few thoughts
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Saturday 24/Nov/2001, @11:52
Good:

1. KDE 2.x will protect the privacy. No commercial instrusion by M$oft
2. less crash prone ;)
3. Introduction to KDE+Linux/Unix.
4. this will help the non-upgraders say win95 will not upgrade to XP since this KDE rocks. Money saved!
5. More themes, sound and multimedia stuff created by Cygwin+Win+KDE users O:)
6. More bugs get hunted


Bad:

1. Viruses....yuck they still fuck MS and that's the reason I hate Windows
2. I am afraid Windows User will prefer KDE on Windows, but thanks to virus writers they are helping unix and Linux :)
3. ummmm..... well! :)

So, it is a good thing indeed.
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Could be usefull
by Syllten on Saturday 24/Nov/2001, @14:56
Cool, I want to test this on my dadīs machine. Hear what he thinks and after a week suggest him to install SuSE and dualboot. And if he doesn't think it sucks, my whole family could end up running Linux... -)

But that's only one possibility, amongst many others.
The big problem is there is no driver for his printer... Very bad, so KDE on top of Windows is much more likely to be accepted, but that would be slow i Guess, to big memoryproblems on 128M SDRAM.. -(

//Syllten happens to be syllten!
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[OT] Slashdotting
by not me on Saturday 24/Nov/2001, @20:15
Congrats, Dot crew! The site is holding up amazingly well under the Slashdotting! I would never have guessed you were being Slashdotted right now without actually going over there and seeing the link myself :-) The Dot is much more stable than it used to be.
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screenshots
by me on Sunday 25/Nov/2001, @02:37
screenshots, screenshots, screenshots !!!

;o)
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Cool but...
by Henri on Sunday 25/Nov/2001, @04:22
I don't really see the point of it. It's OK that someone (not KDE main developpers) done it, but for what use ? What's the point of all this ? I understand that cygwin can bring dev environment + real shell in the windows world, and I use it when I am _forced_ to work with windows.
But why would we need to run the KDE under Windows ? It it's the case, they we have no need to run Windows at all !!!
FS Developpers should focus on linux and all other free OS and leave Windows to some individuals or corporations (who often make bad choices regarding computing since they are not ready to hear the truth right now, some listen to MS anti-GPL instead and if they believe it, I'm glad they'll waste they money and become less competitive).
KDE rules, Windows has mainly disandvantages ; and big improvment of Koffice would mean a lot much to me than WinKDE...
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Who cares whether it is useful
by Guus on Sunday 25/Nov/2001, @05:31
Why are so many people arguing about the usefulness of KDE on windoze? Who cares?

This is a great hack which should be done because it can!

Congratulations and thanks for a terrific desktop to the KDE team!


Cheers, Guus
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Thanks
by A on Sunday 25/Nov/2001, @06:06
This project is good to convince people to switch to KDE and linux since they see that there is great browser and office suite + many apps.

is there any binary files of this project?
Which kde apps. are already ported to win?
are there any screenshots?

Keep on your great work.
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Developers, developers, developers!
by George Molson on Monday 26/Nov/2001, @23:12
The greatest accomplishment in porting KDE to Windows will be to attract new developers who can develop on top of KDE and symetrically deploy to multiple platforms. Efforts to port KDE to Windows are unlikely to detract from other important KDE developments as it will recruit new developers. I don't think that we've learned enough from Redmond, take it right from Balmer: Developers, developers, developers!

If we can develop a good enough KDE port, OEM's will jump at the opportunity to bundle some KDE applications with XP in place of some M$ applications as it would give them leverage in negotiating volume license discounts with Microsoft. Why do you think Dell is so adament about raising the profile of Linux even as they ship nominal units of Linux?
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will this mean
by Andreas on Tuesday 27/Nov/2001, @03:18
that I can run Konqueor as browser on my windows computer?
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eh?
by person on Saturday 01/Dec/2001, @07:41
Thats great, all except KDE BLOWS!!
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KDE/cygwin replaced my explorer.exe
by Tallon on Thursday 23/May/2002, @12:44
I just wanted to share my experience with setting up windows to run cygwin/KDE instead of explorer.exe. In my test install, I replaced the explorer.exe reference in my windows2000 registry to run a shell spawner (litespawn) to give me a choice between explorer and cygwin. With a quick edit of the cygwin batch file so that it auto-starts kde, explorer is replaced. The only problem with this method is that kde still runs in a window. I'm hoping that the next version will have this covered.

A common complaint with Linux is that some Windows programs aren't ported to it, etc. Running KDE as a Windows shell lets Linux users have their familiar desktop while still being able to run Windows binaries. If anyone else has tried this, let me know. I'd like to know how your results looked (Especially if you used a different version of Windows).
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FAQ link busted
by Anonymous on Sunday 18/Aug/2002, @17:46
The link to the FAQ is busted, can you fix it please?
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