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Evolution to be ported to windows
by Thomas on Wednesday 19/Jan/2005, @23:39

at least, that's what the Ximian people inside Novell are going to try. From my point of view, that a bold venture. They'll need to apply massive changes to get it work, and it may even got stuck in the middle. Time will tell, if it's a good idea to already advertise it while they haven't done anything to the code yet.
I'm very pleased with the ongoings on KDE-PIM though. Kontact matures apparently. I think it would be a wasted effort to (officially) try to port Kontact/kdelibs to windows (well you never know, if kdelibs can be ported, maybe we'll even see apps like Kontact on windows one day)

btw.: I'd still like to see a solution to ease the attachment of files to appointments like discussed in this bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75047

just my 2 cents

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Re: Evolution to be ported to windows
by Ingo Klöcker on Thursday 20/Jan/2005, @00:59

As we people from Oche (== Aachen in Germany) say "Net mulle, werke." ("Don't talk, work."):
http://lists.kde.org/?t=110528165700001

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Re: Evolution to be ported to windows
by David on Saturday 22/Jan/2005, @15:57

Waste of time. Kontact/KMail etc. are KDE integrated apps.

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Re: Evolution to be ported to windows
by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 20/Jan/2005, @01:18

Evolution... Now that chimes in with a discovery I made yesterday evening. I'm porting the Wet & Sticky paint model to Krita, and I needed a cut & dried rgb to hls color conversion routine. That particular routine wasn't yet in the KOffice painter lib, so I googled for something cut & pastable.

It turns out that (at least in some version) Evolution contains not just code to draw a bevelled button, but that that code also contains its own particular colourspace conversion routines:

http://www.gxsnmp.org/CVS/evolution/notes/e-bevel-button-util.c

I don't like to use the word 'bloat' in combination with code, mostly because that almost invariably exposes one as a complete ignoramus, but, well, I'd be tempted if I were sure that this code is actually inside a compiled Evolution.

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Re: Evolution to be ported to windows
by Thomas on Thursday 20/Jan/2005, @02:56

Great.. so they'll have the same beveled buttons on windows as on linux. Cool stuff. It has to be so much fun to reinvent the wheel over and over again, I guess... What else did they build in?

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch you first have to create the universe."

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Re: Evolution to be ported to windows
by Ralf Habacker on Thursday 20/Jan/2005, @12:38

Jaroslav Staniek has already ported Kexi to Windows, why should it not be possible to port Kontact/kdepim especially because a windows based gpl'ed qt library release 3.3 is also available.

Kexi on windows - http://iidea.pl/~js/qkw/
QT/Win Free Edition - http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/qt3-win32/.

Ralf

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