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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: excellent desktop (fwd)
From:       Holger Thon <devel_ht () unidui ! uni-duisburg ! de>
Date:       1999-05-22 22:57:47
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Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:40:45 -0500
> From: Luciano Chavez <lchavez@austin.rr.com>
> To: webmaster@kde.org
> Subject: excellent desktop
> 
> Dear KDE development,
> 
> I am a long time OS/2 user and have found little desktops out there that

Fine! Another STABLE os :-)

> could match the power of the OS/2 Workplace Shell. Yours is the first
> one I would like to see ported to OS/2. I really, really like to do
> stuff on my Linux partition now that I have KDE installed. Keep up the
> great work!

I'm completly new to the team, but the real developers will be pleased,
i'm sure.

> 
> Luciano Chavez

I don't know if there is an emx port of egcs already, but i didn't find
any on leo.org. An actual version would at least be needed for rtti. Is
there already an os/2 qt port? This is needed for kde, too.

XFree exists, but i hated the following: When using os/2s builtin
telnet, the xterm started a telnet process running in a window on the
os/2 desktop (os/2 means here 2 desktops - one on X and one native ;-).
Though the X port is really stable. If you have a network, you can run
the startkde script via rsh in the xsession.cmd somewhere in the XFree86
directory. You may have to adapt the -display option in an copy of
startkde on your linux box and use this script instead.

I haven't got a OS/2 installation for a long time though, for i
completly moved to linux. The only thing i still use from os/2 is it's
bootmanager for different installations/root partitions.

Regards,
  Holger

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