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Re: KDE on Windows?
by Joe Theriault on Thursday 17/May/2001, @13:14

I'd been thinking for a while that this would be a Good Thing, but in particular having KDE on Windows so that KOffice could be there as well, because I think a lot of Windows users would be receptive to an office suite that doesn't cost a lot (MS, Corel) and doesn't suck (Staroffice). This project (if brought more up to date, and marketed to some degree) could be used to ween Windows users from the interface they know, and gain KDE more attention.

Kudos to the project.

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Re: KDE on Windows?
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 17/May/2001, @13:51

>> I'd been thinking for a while that this would be a Good Thing, but in particular having KDE on Windows so that KOffice could be there

Another aspect that makes *me* happy is the fact that I have been lobbying (sucessfully) to use Qt for commercial software development so that we can have Linux, Mac and Windows based tools. If KDE, or just kdelibs is ported to OSX and Windows, then it suddenly becomes a fantastic tool for commerical development, which has to worry about such things (We have an even Mac and Windows mixed client base, due to our being in the publishing field, but our current products are all backend servers that run on *nix, and we need GUI admin tools).

And of course, then the Linux version would be KDE, rather than just Qt, resulting in more KDE native apps.

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Evan

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Re: KDE on Windows?
by Voice of Reason on Wednesday 12/Jul/2006, @05:09

If the project was "brought more up to date, and marketed to some degree" it would cost the same as MS and Corel.....

Nothing is for free....

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