Projects/KDE on Windows/Installation - Revision history

AnneW at 14:22, 14 July 2012

2012-07-14T14:22:17Z

Nicolas17: fix syntax

2011-06-29T19:51:29Z

fix syntax

Nicolas17: syntax highlight

2011-06-29T19:50:34Z

syntax highlight

Odysseus: /* Change locale and country settings */

2011-03-05T13:41:08Z

‎Change locale and country settings

Odysseus: /* KDE Installer for Windows */

2011-03-05T13:21:35Z

‎KDE Installer for Windows

Alisha at 10:15, 7 December 2009

2009-12-07T10:15:53Z

Tampakrap at 23:06, 6 December 2009

2009-12-06T23:06:17Z

Alisha at 13:19, 1 December 2009

2009-12-01T13:19:12Z

Jstaniek: /* Download needed packages */ prev change sucked on oygen style; use br

2009-08-28T10:15:40Z

‎Download needed packages: prev change sucked on oygen style; use br

Jstaniek: /* Download needed packages */ put all that into a table, so is better layed out

2009-08-28T10:10:00Z

‎Download needed packages: put all that into a table, so is better layed out

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	{{note\|Perhaps actual developers should summarize status of KDE4 on Windows here, while we encourage users to describe their experiences on the [[Talk:{{PAGENAME}}\|Talk page?]]}}		{{note\|Perhaps actual developers should summarize status of KDE4 on Windows here, while we encourage users to describe their experiences on the [[Talk:{{PAGENAME}}\|Talk page?]]}}

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 ===Change the mouse to Double Click===
-To change the mouse to use double click:
+To change the mouse to use double click, add a new section with a line:
-#Add a new section with a line:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="ini">
-<syntaxhighlighting lang="ini">
 [KDE]
 SingleClick=false
-</syntaxhighlighting>
+</syntaxhighlight>
 Newly started applications (Dolphin and Konqueror) should use double click now.
 ===Change locale and country settings===
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 To manually change your locale settings in your kdeglobals file, add a new section with the lines:
-<syntaxhighlighting lang="ini">
+<syntaxhighlight lang="ini">
 [Locale]
 Country=xx
 Language=zz
-</syntaxhighlighting>
+</syntaxhighlight>
 Replace xx with your lowercase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 ISO 3166-1  alpha-2 Country Code], e.g. pl for Poland.  Replace zz with your lowercase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes ISO 639-1 alpha-2 Language Code], e.g. pl for Polish.  You also need to install your selected KDE language localization package.
 ===Change native/KDE file dialogs===
-To chose native or KDE file dialog:
+To choose native or KDE file dialog, add a new section with the lines:
-#Add a new section with the lines:<br/>
+<syntaxhighlight lang="ini">
-<tt> [KFileDialog Settings]<br/>
+[KFileDialog Settings]
-Native=false</tt><br/><br/>
+Native=false
 Either set Native to true or false.
 [[Category: MS Windows]]

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 ===Change the mouse to Double Click===
 To change the mouse to use double click:
-#Add a new section with a line:<br>
+#Add a new section with a line:
-<tt>[KDE]<br>
+<syntaxhighlighting lang="ini">
-SingleClick=false</tt><br><br>
+[KDE]
 Newly started applications (Dolphin and Konqueror) should use double click now.
 ===Change locale and country settings===
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 To manually change your locale settings in your kdeglobals file, add a new section with the lines:
- [Locale]
+<syntaxhighlighting lang="ini">
- Country=xx
+[Locale]
- Language=zz
+Country=xx
 Replace xx with your lowercase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 ISO 3166-1  alpha-2 Country Code], e.g. pl for Poland.  Replace zz with your lowercase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes ISO 639-1 alpha-2 Language Code], e.g. pl for Polish.  You also need to install your selected KDE language localization package.

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 Newly started applications (Dolphin and Konqueror) should use double click now.
 ===Change locale and country settings===
-To change locale setting:
+From KDE Release 4.5.4 onwards KDE should automatically detect the correct country and language to use.  If it detects the wrong country or language, or you want your KDE apps to use a different locale than your Windows system, then you will need to manually set the country by either installing the kdebase-workspace package and running SystemSettings, or by manually editing your kdeglobals file.
-#Add a new section with the line:<br>
-<tt>[Locale]<br>
+For earlier versions you will need to manually set the country and locale in your kdeglobals file.
-Country=**<br>
-Language=**</tt><br><br>
+To manually change your locale settings in your kdeglobals file, add a new section with the lines:
-Replace ** with your lowercase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 alpha-2 country code], e.g. pl for Poland; of course, you need to install your  language localization package.
 ===Change native/KDE file dialogs===
 To chose native or KDE file dialog:

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 You can also use the KDE Installer for Windows to install source code and the packages that you need to ''build'' KDE4 on Windows
 (although if you are building KDE4 on Windows you may prefer to use the emerge system to build KDE and its requirements from latest source);
-see [[Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows]].
+see [[Getting Started/Build/Windows]].

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 <br/>
 <br/>
-[[File:installer-0010.png|600px]]
+[[File:installer-010.png|600px]]
 <br/>
 [[File:installer-011.png|600px]]

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 == Status ==
 Using kdewin-installer-gui-0.9.3.exe to install 4.1.3 packages:
 * starting a KDE program correctly starts dbus-daemon.exe

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 === Download needed packages ===
-{| width="100%"
+<br/>
-|- valign="top"
+<br/>
-|[[File:installer-001.png|600px|left|]]
+[[File:installer-001.png|600px]]
-|When you run KDE-installer for the first time, you'll see the welcome screen. Since it's your first launch leave the checkbox below unchecked.
+<br/>
-|- valign="top"
+When you run KDE-installer for the first time, you'll see the welcome screen. Since it's your first launch leave the checkbox below unchecked.
-|[[File:installer-002.png|600px|left|]]
+<br/>
-|Proceed to the next screen, where you choose the KDE4 installation directory. It can be anything you prefer, e.g. C:\KDE4.
+<br/>
-|- valign="top"
+[[File:installer-002.png|600px]]
-|[[File:installer-003.png|600px|left|]]
+<br/>
-|On the next screen, define who you are: End User or Developer. The End User installation installs only binary packages and libraries needed to run KDE application. Package Manager mode provides you also with the source code for all packages needed to build KDE from scratch. <br/>  Then you need to decide what compiler to use - MinGW or MSVC.
+Proceed to the next screen, where you choose the KDE4 installation directory. It can be anything you prefer, e.g. C:\KDE4.
-|- valign="top"
+<br/>
-|[[File:installer-004.png|600px|left|]]
+<br/>
-|Proceed to the next screen and there choose the directory where all the downloaded packages will be stored. Let it be something like C:\KDE4-tmp or C:\KDE4-packages.
+[[File:installer-003.png|600px]]
-|- valign="top"
+<br/>
-|[[File:installer-005.png|600px|left|]]
+On the next screen, define who you are: End User or Developer. The End User installation installs only binary packages and libraries needed to run KDE application. Package Manager mode provides you also with the source code for all packages needed to build KDE from scratch. <br/>  Then you need to decide what compiler to use - MinGW or MSVC.
-|The next screen will ask you to choose your internet connection type, particularly whether or not you're using a proxy. If you don't use a proxy server, just click 'Next'. If you are unsure of whether you're using proxy or if you have web browser configured to work with it properly, choose the second or the third option, according to your favourite web-browser. If you'd like to set all the settings manually - choose the last option and go ahead.
+<br/>
-|- valign="top"
+<br/>
-|[[File:installer-006.png|600px|left|]]
+[[File:installer-004.png|600px]]
-|When you click the 'Next' button the (currently, rather short) list of available servers will be loaded and you could choose the one closest to you.
+<br/>
-|- valign="top"
+Proceed to the next screen and there choose the directory where all the downloaded packages will be stored. Let it be something like C:\KDE4-tmp or C:\KDE4-packages.
-|[[File:installer-007.png|600px|left|]]
+<br/>
-|When you click 'Next', a list of available releases on the selected server will be shown. Depending on the server there may be stable and/or unstable release available. Some unstable releases may only be available from www.winkde.org because the kde mirrors provides only a limited range of unstable releases.
+<br/>
-|- valign="top"
+[[File:installer-005.png|600px]]
-|[[File:installer-008.png|600px|left|]]
+<br/>
-|After selecting a release an a click on the 'Next' button, the list of all available packages will be loaded and processed, providing you with the list of package groups you can select for further installation. The short description next to each group of packages should make your choice easier. Select the packages you need. Proceed to the next screen.
+The next screen will ask you to choose your internet connection type, particularly whether or not you're using a proxy. If you don't use a proxy server, just click 'Next'. If you are unsure of whether you're using proxy or if you have web browser configured to work with it properly, choose the second or the third option, according to your favourite web-browser. If you'd like to set all the settings manually - choose the last option and go ahead.
-|- valign="top"
+<br/>
-|[[File:installer-009.png|600px|left|]]
+<br/>
-|Here you can see all the required dependencies, or software necessary to support the choices you've made. Click 'Next' to download them all.
+[[File:installer-006.png|600px]]
-|- valign="top"
+<br/>
-|[[File:installer-0010.png|600px|left|]]\
+When you click the 'Next' button the (currently, rather short) list of available servers will be loaded and you could choose the one closest to you.
+<br/>
-|- valign="top"
+<br/>
-|[[File:installer-011.png|600px|left|]]
+[[File:installer-007.png|600px]]
-|After all the packages are downloaded they'll be unpacked and processed by the installer.
+<br/>
-|- valign="top"
+When you click 'Next', a list of available releases on the selected server will be shown. Depending on the server there may be stable and/or unstable release available. Some unstable releases may only be available from www.winkde.org because the kde mirrors provides only a limited range of unstable releases.
-|[[File:installer-012.png|600px|left|]]
+<br/>
-|The final window will tell that your KDE installation for Windows is complete.
+<br/>
-|-
+[[File:installer-008.png|600px]]
-|}
+<br/>
 === Issues with KDE Installer for Windows ===