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KDE on Windows
by T. J. Brumfield on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @07:28

I don't believe I've ever seen much report in any of the digests about the KDE 4 ports to Mac and Windows.

I tried the KDE 4 Installer for Windows, and the very first time I ran it, it allowed me to download Amarok, except that version of Amarok was quite broken and I couldn't get it to play a single song. I was hoping there might be a newer version, but the installer can't find any download for Amarok at all anymore.

The other games and apps I've tried so far seem to work reasonably well, except one thing that is sorely lacking is integration into the Start menu.

I'm curious how the porting is going.

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Re: KDE on Windows
by mimoune djouallah on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @08:17

- start menu not yet

-amarok when i tried to build the collection, it still don't work, to be honest even in linux it did not worked for me the last time ( when i was home using my opensuse box, now i am stuck with windows in work for two months).

-can't try konqueror as the option the configure proxy still crash.

-the kde games works perfectly well,

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Re: KDE on Windows
by Bobby on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @09:10

I am also using openSuse 10.3. I got Amorok to work with the KDE version 4.0.66 which seems to be even more stable and functional than 4.0.2. Amarok is looking really pretty but it isn't as stable as the KDE 3.5 version.
The developers are working very fast. At this pace I am beginning to wonder what 4.1 will be like. I am really impressed :)

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Re: KDE on Windows
by Ralf Habacker on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @09:46

> -can't try konqueror as the option the configure proxy still crash.
this is fixed in svn and will be available in the 4.0.68 release

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Re: KDE on Windows
by mimoune djouallah on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @09:58

hihi thanks,

me marking my bug report as fixed, neaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

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Re: KDE on Windows
by mimoune djouallah on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @10:27

"Amarok was quite broken and I couldn't get it to play a single song" actually it play sounds, but no way to configure proxy in kde application, bad

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Re: KDE on Windows
by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @07:43

I think it is because the first time I opened the app I configured it to look for my music folder. Later I just opened it trying to get a song to play, but I guess the library function is quite broke, and every time I open the app now it is trying to build the library and failing.

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Re: KDE on Windows
by Max on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @13:43

Yes, could we get a detailed digest and updates for KDE on Windows?

Please!!

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Re: KDE on Windows
by jos poortvliet on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @05:12

Feel free... I'm sure Danny is way to busy already.

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Re: KDE on Windows
by kollum on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @13:10

Well, the commit digest is that, a commit digest. Wich mean you should find in it informations related to the SVN commits of the week.

Danny had been adding some 'extras' for some weeks now, but an article about the windows port doesn't have to be in the commit digest. You cousd just have a dot article published about that thought :)

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