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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2005-02-09 6:14:00
Message-ID: 200502090614.00347.ben () meyerhome ! net
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On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:32 pm, Dennie Bastiaan wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 February 2005 05:21, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:24 am, Dennie Bastiaan wrote:
> > > I think that the focus of KDE shouldn't be porting it to windows.
> >
> > What about kdelibs?  If KDE doesn't supply/have an official kdelibs for
> > windows third party open source kde application will most likely remove
> > their kde abilities and become Qt only so that they can work on windows
> > to increase their user base.
>
> I should say that I thought about that and you are actually right. But I
> were affraid of KDE-developers putting effort in porting KDE completely to
> windows. As if it was part of a KDE-roadmap. Porting kdelibs only should
> enable KDE applications on windows, instead of completely replacing the
> explorer-shell. And I admit, I aggree that that's a good thing. ;-)
>
> > > If KDE on windows wasn't one of KDE's main goals, than leave it like
> > > that and don't let a GPL'ed Qt change that. :)
> >
> > Yes, so our goal isn't to port KDE to windows, but I do think it would be
> > a good thing to release kdelibs for windows for both open source and
> > commercial Qt developers.
>
> I have one little question: Is kdelibs depended on dcop? Dcop depends X11
> and could be a problem, since windows natively is not X11. ;-)
 
I doubt that sense I got KDE working on native OSX. :D

-Benjamin Meyer

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