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Revision as of 21:57, 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."
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.
Overview
User Installation
- Install KDE 4 on Windows using the KDE Installer for Windows
- Additional Software that is needed for some programs to work properly
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)
- Tools (required or useful)
- Porting Guidelines
- Meetings
- Windows CE
- Source code in the KDE git: emerge
Information for application developers
(Release) status info
- Current release target is KDE 4.10.2 ([1]).
- builds:
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
- [email protected] 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