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KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X

Posted by Zonk on from the strange-confluence-of-events dept.

klblastone writes "The KDE desktop environment is going cross-platform with support for the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. In addition to porting the core KDE libraries and applications, developers are also porting popular KDE-based software like the Amarok audio player and the KOffice productivity suite. New KDE binaries for Windows were released yesterday and are now available from KDE mirrors through an automated installer program. The Mac OS X port is made available via BitTorrent in universal binary format."

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  1. Great by Divebus · · Score: 3, Funny

    That bodes well for kimovie, kiphoto and kitunes (for my kipod)

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  2. But why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would I want a desktop with a smelly foot on it?

    (This is the correct KDE troll, isn't it?)

  3. Supports Windows and OS X by gmf · · Score: 5, Funny

    But does it run on Linux?

    1. Re:Supports Windows and OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not very well, I'll stick with GNOME, thank you very much.


      ...not enough karma or balls to non-AC this one.

    2. Re:Supports Windows and OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wait! That's not entirely true. Out-of-the-box, it's not so great, but there's a checkbox in one of the tabs of one of the preference windows under one of the preference menus in one of the programs that makes it great!

      I found it once, but I didn't draw a map, so I never found it again. :-(

  4. Don't do that. by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    developers are also porting popular KDE-based software like the Amarok audio player
    Gah, there is enough bloat in the windows world as it is. Where are the linux equivalents of foobar2000 and utorrent?
  5. Linux wins the desktop! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    (By getting ported to windows)

  6. Re:Vista by orclevegam · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is running something on top of Vista supposed to make Vista faster? I think it's the same principle as how putting stickers, a spoiler, and a giant muffler on your car is supposed to make it faster. Although this apparently only works if you drive a low end Japanese made car, preferably with a four cylinder engine.
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  7. Re:Now Windows and Mac users can enjoy... by Volante3192 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like you're trying to move a file.

    Allow / Deny

  8. Jews? by withoutfeathers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is this article tagged "jews?" Is KDE4 now kosher?

    1. Re:Jews? by Arthur+B. · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, thanks to the Kchroot utility

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  9. Re:I want to like this by AP2k · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got my mac so that I wouldn't have to deal with the eternally beta Linux software situation. I want things to work I take it you aren't running the latest QuickTime software, huh?
  10. Re:This is good... by misleb · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know this is considered by many as blasphemy but, it can't be seen as anything other than a REALLY good thing for the linux camp out there, provided it works well. One of the biggest barriers to people running linux is that they are uncomfortable with how it will work compared to their comfy Windows box.


    Ha! I've heard Windows called a lot of things, but "comfy" is not one of them. I'll assume what you mean is "ensnaring." ;-)

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  11. Re:Vista by compro01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    >sarcasm

    just recompile without the DRM included.

    >/sarcasm

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  12. Re:Where's the installer? by c0d3g33k · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there something I'm missing? Yes.
  13. Re:Where's the installer? by gimple · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, that clears it up.

  14. Re:For Redundant, See Redundant by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, I DO find it annoying when I have to enter my PIN number at the ATM machine in the UMB bank.

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  15. Re:So will this ... by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried to look harder, so I got myself a tattoo.

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  16. Re:Autotools,makes even seasoned programmers nause by StormReaver · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Autotools, an intractably arcane and grotesquely anachronistic cesspool of ineffable complexity that makes even seasoned programmers nauseous."

    They're obviously not very familiar with Autotools. If they were, then they would have used much harsher words to describe it.

  17. That's a Windows install? by svunt · · Score: 1, Funny
    I remember reading once what a brilliant idea the sidecar is, as attaching one lets you combine the motorcycle's lack of safety with a car's clunky steering. Here we have the software equivalent. Check this nastiness from the installation instructions for KDE for Windows:

    # Add your lib directory, e.g. C:\KDE4\lib to your Windows %PATH%. (Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables, double-click the Path System Variable and add this to your path separated by semicolon.)
    # Add a KDEDIRS environment variable (Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables, click [New] User variable and create Variable name KDEDIRS with Variable value the directory where you installed KDE4, e.g. C:\KDE4).
    Wow, just what I've always wanted, the complexity of linux with the instability of Windows.