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KDE 3.5 Beta 1 Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the new-thing-thursday dept.

christchurch writes "The KDE Project has announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5 Beta 1, dubbed "Kanzler". This will be the last major release in the KDE 3 series. Qt 3.3.5 was released too late to adapt to it and it shows some fundamental compilation problems. We had a preview of KDE 3.5 two months ago."

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  1. Re:3.6? by CDMA_Demo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone think we can port KDE to Windows? It will be really cool if instead of explorer we boot up into KDE. Just an interesting possibility. I know something like this has been done before but its not as good as having complete KDE or Gnome!

  2. Re:3.6? by Psiren · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone think we can port KDE to Windows?

    I seem to remember reading somewhere that Qt4 would make this a distinct possibility, or at least make it easier to contemplate doing it. I don't know if there would be any interest in doing such a thing, but time will tell.

  3. Alternative native Window Mangers for Windows by jd · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Why not? Someone ported Afterstep to Windows. It was a native port, too, not using Cygwin. It should be possible for someone to examine how the replacement of the Windows GUI was achieved, and the X calls shouldn't pose a problem as KDE uses Qt, and Qt will run under Windows. Anything KDE doesn't do through Qt should be solvable by looking to see how the Afterstep port solved the problem.


    What I'd LOVE to see is someone porting the full KDE system to run natively on Windows, then write a layer that'll handle Windows GUI calls and DirectX through KDE. A screenshot of that would freak out so many people...

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  4. Re:3.6? by Rich · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, since the release of Qt 4, Qt has been GPL on win32 as well as unix and Mac. Plans to change the way KDE is split up were discussed at akademy that should make a win32 version easier, as will the move away from autoconf/automake to a new build system. Some parts of KDE such as kjs can already be built on win32, but there are many other parts that would need quite substantial work to port. That said, there is already a cygwin port of KDE that can be used right now.