Quickies: Win32 Kontact, Awards, Hurd, Kubuntu Bounties, Linspire Job

Tuesday, 14 June 2005  |  Jriddell

KDE/Qt company KDAB will port Kontact to Windows once Qt 4 is out. *** Linux Journal are holding their Readers' Choice Awards, make sure you vote for KDE. *** Some elite Debian hackers ported Qt to the Hurd. *** Kubuntu released a Live CD with KDE 3.4.1 and KOffice 1.4 beta, and if you missed out on the Google bounties you may be interested in the Kubuntu Bounties. *** Finally congratulations to Matt Rogers on getting a job with Linspire to work on instant messenger program Kopete.

Comments:

Kontact ported to Windows - cies breijs - 2005-06-14

Good! I wonder what KDE apps will find their way to the smelly platform when Qt4 gets GPLed. BTW: Evolution is reported to compile on windows. http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2278

Re: Kontact ported to Windows - Ingo Klöcker - 2005-06-14

Evolution compiles on Windows? So? Kontact does already run on Windows due to the folks of kde-cygwin. Three days ago the first snapshot of KDE 3.4.1 for cygwin was released (http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=473247 ): "Posted By: habacker Date: 2005-06-11 12:14 Summary: First snapshot of KDE 3.4.1 for cygwin available Today the first snapshot release of KDE 3.4.1 for cygwin is released. It is compiled from recent kde svn sources and contains all application from the kdebase package like konqueror, kate, kicker and mostly applications from kdepim like kmail, korganizer, kontact and friends. From the kdesdk package there is umbrello included. As special feature a tool named lnk2desktop is available, which imports explorer startmenu items into kicker. You can download this snapshot from http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/snapshots/kde/kde3.4/"

Re: Kontact ported to Windows - TIM.. - 2005-06-14

In that case Evolution runs already on Windows too via cygwin too, Evolution its making its way to run native on Windows the same Kontact is trying to. so please get the facs.

Re: Kontact ported to Windows - cies breijs - 2005-06-16

it was just a little (BTW) note... no offense :)

unbelievable - jumpy - 2005-06-14

How many great news!!! I'm Amazed!! Great times, aren't they ?? :-) ( Take a look at this artwork I just tried in amarok: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=25178 ) Vive-la-KDAB

Some say KDE 3.5 is slower than 3.4.1... - Alex - 2005-06-14

Is this true? If so, why and will the final be this way? One of the most important things about KDE IMO is speed, and I would hate for it to get any slower.

Re: Some say KDE 3.5 is slower than 3.4.1... - aardvark - 2005-06-14

Huh? How can KDE 3.5 be slower than anything it's not out yet. No offense intended, but if you're concerned about speed why not develop some benchmarks and check out KDE HEAD on a regular basis and report your findings. That could be helpful.

Re: Some say KDE 3.5 is slower than 3.4.1... - Leo S - 2005-06-14

No

Re: Some say KDE 3.5 is slower than 3.4.1... - Rick - 2005-06-15

From many perspectives, it is wise to worry about quality first...then optimize. Besides, the product is not even close to beta...have some patients...

Kde 3.5 won't be out for a while - Daniel - 2005-06-14

And I'm sure everyone will pay close attention to performance, I wouldn't worry about it.

Re: Kde 3.5 won't be out for a while - superstoned - 2005-06-14

if everybody thinks that, it won't be very fast :D

Office applications - Inge Wallin - 2005-06-14

Interesting that KOffice was mentioned among the choices, but not Abiword and Gnumeric.

Re: Office applications - TIM.. - 2005-06-14

>>office program: KDE Kontact >>office program: KOffice >>office program: LaTex >>office program: LyX >>office program: OpenOffice.org >>office program: Scribus >>office program: StarOffice >>office program: Mozilla Sunbird Right, that poll sucks, no Gnumeric, no Abiword. That poll is biased.

Hurd - Petteri - 2005-06-14

That Hurd port seem really nice. Mayby couple of year more and then I can get my Debian GNU/Hurd running with my favorate desktop environment ;)

Even KDE runs on Hurd - Mario Fux - 2005-06-14

Even KDE runs on Hurd. See the announcement [1] and a screenshot [2]. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2005/06/msg00056.html [2] http://www.h1.org/~ncryer/kde.png

Re: Even KDE runs on Hurd - Josef Spillner - 2005-06-17

Qt runs on the L4 microkernel directly (under a DROPS environment), which is the kernel that Hurd is being ported on, deprecating GNU Mach. http://fiascodobrasil.codigolivre.org.br/qtporting/ Any volunteers for a KDE port? :)

Re: Even KDE runs on Hurd - cm - 2005-06-17

> Any volunteers for a KDE port? :) Too late, it seems... :) http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2005/06/msg00056.html

Re: Even KDE runs on Hurd - cm - 2005-06-17

Oops, sorry. Please forget the previous post...

Shouldn't that be... - mikeyd - 2005-06-14

Kuickies? I keed, I keed

Linspire hiring for Kopete? - iKDE - 2005-06-16

That seems pretty odd, being that they are a big sponsor of the gaim project. I wonder what they're up to?