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Re: KDE on Windows?
by Fabi on Thursday 17/May/2001, @13:16

Although a nice attempt, I think it is mainly a proof of concept. Which windows-user would mess around with installing this? One who is really interessted would give linux a try, and the others wouldn't mind.

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Re: KDE on Windows?
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 17/May/2001, @14:24

>> Which windows-user would mess around with installing this?

One who was interested in installing a KDE app. Maybe a suite of KDE applications. Maybe it will turn into a common library like VBRUNx00.dll.

Even if you are a Linux or BSD fan, and you believe that your OS of choice will take over, someday the tables could be reversed, and the poor guy in the corner running Win2008 while the rest of the company is using KDE on a variety of OSes will need *some* way to read KWord 7.0 files (since they are the business standard).

And if you doubt that, I've got a CP/M machine in the closet with Wordstar and Visicalc that was the "business standard" not *too* long ago.

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Evan

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Re: KDE on Windows?
by Evandro on Thursday 17/May/2001, @19:02

actually, the standards used by koffice are open, so it's very easy to add support for .kwd in other office applications (ms will do so in 2008, if they're still around).

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Re: KDE on Windows?
by APW on Saturday 19/May/2001, @04:57

Your comment is the first sane thing that I've seen in this thread. This is nothing more than a proof-of-concept which hasn't been thought through to the end-product. There might be a geek or two that actually implements KDE apps on Windows, but the global population will be in the 2 or 3 digits range -- hardly worth getting up from your chair.

"To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

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