Difference between revisions of "Projects/KDE on Windows"

Latest revision as of 23:20, 9 June 2013

"KDE 4 libraries and applications are available to you, no matter if you are a commercial developer, manager or free software hacker. You are invited to not only just use the toolkit - you can contribute your own solutions and improvements to the KDE community."

Konqi, the KDE mascot now also supporting MS Windows

The KDE on Windows Initiative is an ongoing project to port the KDE applications to MS Windows. Currently supported versions of Windows are XP, Vista and 7.

[edit] Overview

[edit] User Installation

Install KDE 4 on Windows using the KDE Installer for Windows
Additional Software that is needed for some programs to work properly
Windows specific features: modifying the location of .kde and some more internal settings

[edit] Development

Build KDE 4 on Windows using emerge
Debugging on MS Windows
Development Workflow
Issues, TODOs, and status info (on individual apps, libraries, or other parts of the project) (outdated)
Tools (required or useful)
Porting Guidelines
Meetings
Windows CE
Source code in the KDE git: emerge

[edit] Information for application developers

[edit] (Release) status info

Current release target is KDE 4.10.2 ([1]).
builds:
- Release-Series

[edit] Qt5/KDE5 status

update dbus to nightly branch
get kdelibs building - what about split packages?
use updated mingw
disable dbusmenu-qt on Windows by default
fix Qt5 dependencies on all packages

[edit] Further reading, and support ressources

kde-windows@kde.org mailing list: subscribe, archives
#kde-windows channel on irc.freenode.net
Related blogs: aheinecke, saroengels, Not active: chehrlic, jstaniek
KDE on Windows in the press

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 *[[/How to Help|How to Help / Join]]
 *[http://windows.kde.org windows.kde.org]
-*[[/Maintainers|Maintainers]] of Windows version of particular module or application
 *[[/FAQ|Frequently answered questions]]
 ==User Installation==
 *[[/Installation|Install KDE 4 on Windows]] using the KDE Installer for Windows
+*[[/additional_software_needed|Additional Software]] that is needed for some programs to work properly
+*[[/windows_specific_features|Windows specific features]]: modifying the location of .kde and some more internal settings
 ==Development==
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 *[[Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Debugging_on_MS_Windows|Debugging on MS Windows]]
 *[[/Development Workflow|Development Workflow]]
-*[[/Issues |Issues, TODOs, and status info]] (on individual apps, libraries, or other parts of the project)
+*[[/Issues |Issues, TODOs, and status info]] (on individual apps, libraries, or other parts of the project) (outdated)
 *[[/Tools|Tools]] (required or useful)
 *[[/Porting Guidelines|Porting Guidelines]]
 *[http://community.kde.org/KDE_Windows/Meetings Meetings]
 *[[/Windows CE|Windows CE]]
+*Source code in the KDE git: [http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=emerge.git emerge]
 === Information for application developers ===
-*[[/Compiling_Applications|Compiling (third party) KDE apps on Windows]]
+*[[/Compiling_Applications|Compiling (third party) KDE apps on Windows]] (outdated)
 *[[/Packaging|Packaging / Distributing KDE apps on Windows]]
-=== (Release) status info===
+===(Release) status info===
-*Current release target is KDE 4.9 ([http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=134856419908374&w=2]). Recently it has been suggested to skip to 4.10, however ([http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=135784778022201&w=2])
+*Current release target is KDE 4.10.2 ([http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-windows/2013-May/007513.html]).
-*Nightly builds (logs):
+*builds:
 **[http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/release/ Release-Series]
-**[http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/ master]
-==Resources==
+== Qt5/KDE5 status ==
+* update dbus to nightly branch
+* get kdelibs building - what about split packages?
+* use updated mingw
+* disable dbusmenu-qt on Windows by default
+* fix Qt5 dependencies on all packages
+==Further reading, and support ressources==
 *[mailto:kde-windows@kde.org kde-windows@kde.org] mailing list: [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows  subscribe], [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&r=1&w=2 archives]
 *[irc://irc.freenode.net/kde-windows #kde-windows] channel on irc.freenode.net
-*Source code in the KDE git: [http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=emerge.git emerge]
-==External Resources==
 *Related blogs: [http://aheinecke.blogspot.de/ aheinecke], [http://saroengels.blogspot.com/ saroengels], Not active: [http://chehrlic.blogspot.com chehrlic], [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/104 jstaniek]
 *[[/In the Press|KDE on Windows in the press]]
-*[http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/deployment-windows.html Deploying a Qt Application on Windows] (qt.nokia.com)
 [[Category:MS Windows]]