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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: Licensing (Was: [kde-promo] What's the community up to?)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-12-08 13:31:42
Message-ID: 200412081431.46160.bastian () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 08 December 2004 13:55, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8. December 2004 11:03, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 December 2004 02:59, Steven Giacomelli wrote:
> > > [..]
> > >
> > > Maybe it's time for a "KDE for Windows" initiative
> >
> > It's there already, http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net
>
> This is one project. There are others.

Like?

> We are missing some coordinated effort. 

Afaik kde-cygwin _IS_ a coordinated effort.

> And personally I think cygwin is not the way to go, we need a 
> native Windows version (and with native Qt on Windows we are only a little
> step away).

That's covered here: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/

> > Jaroslaw Staniek <js@iidea.pl> is working hard to get his fixes for
> > Windows in KDE CVS at the moment.
>
> Is this related to the kde-cygwin project? I was under the impression that
> this is a separate project.

It's complementary, see
http://wiki.kde.org//tiki-index.php?page=KDElibs+for+win32

> > > Thats a non-starter -- KDE is a Unix\Linux DE focusing on a windows
> > > version would not serve the goals of the organization and would only
> > > take resources away from the project as a whole.
>
> KDE is much more than a Unix/Linux Desktop Environment. It has lots of
> great applications which certainly would also benefit Windows users. How do
> you come to the conclusion that this would not work? If we would run on
> Windows we could attract Windows developers. There are plenty of them, so
> if only a very small percentage of them would join the project we would get
> more resources than before.

Indeed.

Cheers,
Waldo
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