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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?]]}}
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    KDE is free and open source so you can build all the applications "from scratch" from their source code;
    KDE is free and open source so you can build all the applications "from scratch" from their source code;
    but as a convenience for others,
    but as a convenience for others,
    volunteers create these precompiled packages and make them available on the Internet.
    volunteers create these pre-compiled packages and make them available on the Internet.


    '''Disclaimer''' These are early days for KDE4 on Windows,
    '''Disclaimer''' These are early days for KDE4 on Windows,
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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
    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);
    (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]].
     


    === Summary of Steps ===
    === Summary of Steps ===
     
    * Download and save the latest version of the installer from [http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe here] to a directory, e.g. <tt>C:\KDE4</tt>
    For the first time when you run KDE-installer you'll see the welcome screen. Since it's your first launch - leave the checkbox below unchecked. Proceed to the next screen, where you are to choose the KDE4 installation directory. It can be any of your favor, e.g. C:\KDE4.<br/>
    * Run the installer, download and install what you need (see [[#Download needed packages|Download needed packages]] below).
    On the next screen you are to define who you are - End User ot a Developer. The End user installation installs only binary packages and libraries needed to run KDE application. Developer mode provides you with the source code for all packages needed to build KDE from scratch. If you have chosen to be a Developer, then you need to decide what compiler to use - MinGW or MSVC. In End User mode there're only MSVC packages currently available.<br/>
    * Try to run a KDE application from the windows start menu (see for KDE x.x.x Release entry) 
    Proceed to the next screen and there you're to choose the directory where all the downloaded packages will be stored. Let it be something like C:\KDE4-tmp or C:\KDE4-packages.<br/>
    The next screen will ask you to choose the type of your connection to the internet. It's usefull when you are using proxy. If you don't use proxy, then 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/>
    When you click the 'Next' button the list of available servers will be loaded and you could choose the one, which is closer to you. Currently the list isn't very long, though.<br/>
    If you click 'Next' again the list of all available pckages will be loaded and processed to provide you with the list of package groups that you're able to select for further installation. There short description next to each group of packages for you make your choice easier. Selcet the packages you need. Proceed to the next screen.<br/>
    Here you can see all the required dependencies. Just click 'Next' to download them all.<br/>
    After all the packages are downloaded they'll be unpacked and processed by the installer. The final window will tell that your KDE installation for windows is complete.<br/>
     
     
     
    * Visit http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/
    * Download and save the latest version to a directory, e.g. <tt>C:\KDE4</tt>
    * Run the installer, download what you need (see [[#Download needed packages|Download needed packages]] below).
    * Add a KDEDIRS environment variable (Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables, click [New] User variable and create Variable name <tt>KDEDIRS</tt> with Variable value the directory where you installed KDE4, e.g. <tt>C:\KDE4</tt>).
    * <b>Add your lib directory, <tt>%KDEDIRS\lib</tt>, and your bin directory, <tt>%KDEDIRS\bin</tt>, to your Windows %PATH%</b>.  (Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables, double-click the Path System Variable and add this to your path separated by semicolon.)
    * If you don't have Visual Studio 2005 installed, download and install the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)" [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en]
    * Try running a Qt application in the <tt>bin</tt> directory, such as linguist.exe
    * If that works, try running a KDE application such as <tt>kwrite.exe</tt>.


    === Download needed packages ===
    === Download needed packages ===
    A single program in the The K Desktop Environment depends on many other libraries and packages; that is why each .exe is comparatively small.
    <br/>
    The KDE Installer for Windows will fetch all those dependencies for you.
    <br/>
     
    [[File:installer-001.png|600px]]
    There are two development systems for KDE on Windows,
    <br/>
    Microsoft's Visual C and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW MinGW].
    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.
    Even if you are only running binaries and do not intend to build KDE4 yourself,
    <br/>
    you need to choose between these because of the provided runtime environments.
    <br/>
    You're free to decide which to take.
    [[File:installer-002.png|600px]]
     
    <br/>
    The KDE programs themselves are organized into several groups: kdeedu, kdegames, and kdegraphics.
    Proceed to the next screen, where you choose the KDE4 installation directory. It can be anything you prefer, e.g. C:\KDE4.
     
    <br/>
    The Dependencies tab for a particular package lists some of the additional packages it needs.
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-003.png|600px]]
    <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.
    <br/>
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-004.png|600px]]
    <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.
    <br/>
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-005.png|600px]]
    <br/>
    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/>
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-006.png|600px]]
    <br/>
    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/>
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-007.png|600px]]
    <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/>
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-008.png|600px]]
    <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.
    <br/>
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-009.png|600px]]
    <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.
    <br/>
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-010.png|600px]]
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-011.png|600px]]
    <br/>
    After all the packages are downloaded they'll be unpacked and processed by the installer.
    <br/>
    <br/>
    [[File:installer-012.png|600px]]
    <br/>
    The final window will tell that your KDE installation for Windows is complete.
    <br/>


    === Issues with KDE Installer for Windows ===
    === Issues with KDE Installer for Windows ===
    If you find an issue, please report to [mailto:[email protected]].
    If something goes wrong during installation, for example a file can't be replaced because it is still in use, the installer may still report successful completion.  If you see any alert or failure message from the installer, when it completes, quit and re-run it.<br>
     
    If that didn't help and you think it's a bug, please report to [mailto:[email protected]]
    ==== Successful? completion ====
    If something goes wrong during installation, for example a file can't be replaced because it is still in use, the installer may still report successful completion.  If you see any alert or failure message from the installer, when it completes quit and re-run it.
     
     


    == Testing your installation ==
    == Testing your installation ==
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    Look into your start menu: there will be a new entry KDE 4.XX.XX Release. Below that folder you can find all the apps you installed.
    Look into your start menu: there will be a new entry KDE 4.XX.XX Release. Below that folder you can find all the apps you installed.
    === Startup, shutdown, and diagnosing problems ===
    The first KDE program you run should automatically invoke <tt>kdeinit4.exe</tt>, the KDE initialization app,
    which starts background KDE applications and services like dbus-daemon, klauncher and kded4.
    The first time you save or open, another background application, kioslave, will start.
    These background KDE applications and services remain running after you close KDE applications.  If you want you can shut them down by running <tt>kdeinit4 --terminate</tt> from a command prompt.
    You can run <tt>kdeinit4 --list</tt> from a command prompt to see what processes are running. <tt>kdeinit4</tt> has other useful options documented elsewhere.


    == Fine-tuning ==
    == Fine-tuning ==
    === Common step: editing the kdeglobals file ===
    Unless otherwise stated you make all the setting changes below by editing the <tt>kdeglobals</tt> file in the directory <tt>%APPDATA%\.kde\share\config\</tt> with any text editor (such as kwrite).
    (Note that for versions older than 4.0.85 the file is in <tt>%USERPROFILE%\.kde\share\config\kdeglobals</tt>.)
    %APPDATA% (and %USERPROFILE%) is different for different Windows users/versions/locales; in a command prompt, entering the command <b><tt>cd %APPDATA%</tt></b> will switch to it, effectively telling you what it is.
    ===Set Oxygen style for widgets===
    ===Set Oxygen style for widgets===
    The default KDE widget style on Windows is the native one. You already have Oxygen style installed (which is a plugin library %KDEROOT%\lib\kde4\plugins\styles\oxygen.dll), so it can be used as well. To set it for a single user:
    The default KDE widget style on Windows is the native one. The Oxygen style installs with basic KDE installation (as a plugin library %KDEROOT%\lib\kde4\plugins\styles\oxygen.dll), so it can be used as well. To set it for a single user:
    #edit <tt>%UserPROFILE%\.kde\share\config\kdeglobals</tt> with any text editor (e.g. kwrite) Note: `cd %UserPROFILE%` will change to the right directory, effectively telling you what %UserPROFILE% expands to, such as "C:\Documents and Settings\mark"
    # edit kdeglobals
    #locate the General section (a line containing the text "[General]"). If there is no General section, create one.
    #locate the General section (a line containing the text "[General]"). If there is no General section, create one.
    #Within the General section ([General]), edit the line containing <tt>widgetStyle=....</tt> so that it reads <tt>widgetStyle=oxygen</tt>.  If there is no such <tt>widgetStyle=...</tt> line, create it.
    #Within the General section ([General]), edit the line containing <tt>widgetStyle=....</tt> so that it reads <tt>widgetStyle=oxygen</tt>.  If there is no such <tt>widgetStyle=...</tt> line, create it.
    Newly started applications should be displayed with Oxygen style now.
    Newly started applications should be displayed with the Oxygen style now.


    == Status ==
    ===Set Tahoma (Windows default font) for widgets===
    Using kdewin-installer-gui-0.9.2.exe to install 4.00.73 packages:
    To set it for a single user:
    * starting a KDE program correctly starts dbus-daemon.exe
    # edit kdeglobals
    * many games run
    #locate the General section (a line containing the text "[General]"). If there is no General section, create one.
    * choosing File > Open correctly starts klauncher.exe, kioslave.exe and kded4.exe, and runs kbuildsycoca4.exe as needed.
    #Within the General section ([General]), add these two lines:
    * Full-text search in khelpcenter does not work because Perl scripts are disabled.
    <tt>font=Tahoma<br/>
    * Many applications have a generic icon in Windows Explorer.
    menuFont=Tahoma</tt>
    * Applications that try to play sounds might display an alert about "Multimedia Backend" problems. This requires the Windows backend for [http://phonon.kde.org/ Phonon]. There is currently no support for that backend because of missing man-power.


    General notes:
    Newly started applications should use this font now.
    * There are many other KDE programs that are not part of KDE 4.0.0 and are not currently packaged for MS Windows.
    <b>Note</b>: this works for any font you have installed.
    * By design, KDE-windows does not provide the full-blown KDE desktop, thus no KWin composite manager, KDE-specific "start" menus, Plasma desktop, etc.
    * Some KDE programs use UNIX-specific features, such as konsole's use of pseudo-terminals, and thus are difficult to port to MS Windows.


    === Package status and contents ===
    ===Change the mouse to Double Click===
    {| border="0" cellpadding="2"
    To change the mouse to use double click, add a new section with a line:
    |-valign="top"
    <syntaxhighlight lang="ini">
    !package
    [KDE]
    !status
    SingleClick=false
    !contains applications
    </syntaxhighlight>
    |-valign="top"
    Newly started applications (Dolphin and Konqueror) should use double click now.
    |kdebase
    ===Change locale and country settings===
    |packaged
    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.
    |Konqueror, Dolphin, KWrite, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |kdegames
    |packaged
    |Kgoldrunner, Kpat, KMahjongg, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |kdesdk
    |packaged
    |Kate, Umbrello, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |kdetoys
    |packaged - Umbrello is missing currently
    |KTeatime, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |kdeedu
    |packaged
    |Marble, Parley, KStars, KHangman, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |kdegraphics
    |packaged
    |Okular, kolourpaint, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |amarok
    |not building
    |Amarok music player
    |-valign="top"
    |koffice
    |packaged
    |KWord, Krita, Karbon, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |kdepim
    |not building
    |KMail, AKregator, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |kdenetwork
    |packaged
    |Kopete, KGet, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |kdeutils
    |not packaged
    |KGpg, KWallet, etc.
    |-valign="top"
    |ktorrent
    |packaged
    |the KTorrent utility
    |}


    == Deprecated: post-install steps ==
    For earlier versions you will need to manually set the country and locale in your kdeglobals file.
    After manual installation of a package one has to run the included post-install.bat script (inside the manifest folder). This batch file includes at least the following steps.


    ===Run update-mime-database===
    To manually change your locale settings in your kdeglobals file, add a new section with the lines:
    Be sure that you have no KDE-related applications running: run the Windows Task Manager (taskmgr.exe), switch to its Processes tab, and kill all occurences of dbus-daemon.exe, kded4.exe, kioslave.exe and klauncher.exe (and all other KDE apps).


    Open a Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and navigate to the directory where you installed KDE. Say you installed KDE to C:\KDE4, then run from the cmd.exe window:
    <syntaxhighlight lang="ini">
      C:\KDE4> '''bin\update-mime-database C:\KDE4\share\mime'''
    [Locale]
    This will give you a lot of warning message. Most of them you can easily ignore; even if you should set [[KDE_System_Administration/Environment_Variables#XDG_DATA_HOME|XDG_DATA_HOME]] or [[KDE_System_Administration/Environment_Variables#XDG_DATA_DIRS|XDG_DATA_DIRS]] it worked perfectly. If it says you should rerun update-mime-database as root then you're not within your installation directory.
    Country=xx
    Language=zz
    </syntaxhighlight>


    ===Run kbuildsyscoca4===
    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.
    After finishing the previous step, run
      C:\KDE4> '''bin\kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental'''
    If this tells you that your disk is full (which is most probably not the case) you have still some executables from KDE running. Please close them and try again.


    Excuse us for the inconvenience &mdash; we hope for a better solution in the next release.
    ===Change native/KDE file dialogs===
    To choose native or KDE file dialog, add a new section with the lines:
    <syntaxhighlight lang="ini">
    [KFileDialog Settings]
    Native=false
    </syntaxhighlight>
    Either set Native to true or false.


    [[Category: MS Windows]]
    [[Category: MS Windows]]

    Revision as of 14:22, 14 July 2012


    Note
    Perhaps actual developers should summarize status of KDE4 on Windows here, while we encourage users to describe their experiences on the Talk page?


    KDE Installer for Windows

    You can use this installer to download and install the various binary packages that you need to run KDE applications on MS Windows. KDE is free and open source so you can build all the applications "from scratch" from their source code; but as a convenience for others, volunteers create these pre-compiled packages and make them available on the Internet.

    Disclaimer These are early days for KDE4 on Windows, some programs work better than others and some fail to run altogether.

    If you experience any problems please have a look into our mailing list.

    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/Windows.


    Summary of Steps

    • Download and save the latest version of the installer from here to a directory, e.g. C:\KDE4
    • Run the installer, download and install what you need (see Download needed packages below).
    • Try to run a KDE application from the windows start menu (see for KDE x.x.x Release entry)

    Download needed packages




    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.


    Proceed to the next screen, where you choose the KDE4 installation directory. It can be anything you prefer, e.g. C:\KDE4.


    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.
    Then you need to decide what compiler to use - MinGW or MSVC.


    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.


    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.


    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.


    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.


    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.


    Here you can see all the required dependencies, or software necessary to support the choices you've made. Click 'Next' to download them all.



    After all the packages are downloaded they'll be unpacked and processed by the installer.


    The final window will tell that your KDE installation for Windows is complete.

    Issues with KDE Installer for Windows

    If something goes wrong during installation, for example a file can't be replaced because it is still in use, the installer may still report successful completion. If you see any alert or failure message from the installer, when it completes, quit and re-run it.
    If that didn't help and you think it's a bug, please report to [1]

    Testing your installation

    Navigate to the bin directory.

    See if you can run the Qt program assistant.exe. Qt programs have fewer dependencies than a full-blown KDE application.

    If that works, try running a simple KDE application, such as lskat.exe from the kdegames package.

    Look into your start menu: there will be a new entry KDE 4.XX.XX Release. Below that folder you can find all the apps you installed.

    Startup, shutdown, and diagnosing problems

    The first KDE program you run should automatically invoke kdeinit4.exe, the KDE initialization app, which starts background KDE applications and services like dbus-daemon, klauncher and kded4.

    The first time you save or open, another background application, kioslave, will start.

    These background KDE applications and services remain running after you close KDE applications. If you want you can shut them down by running kdeinit4 --terminate from a command prompt.

    You can run kdeinit4 --list from a command prompt to see what processes are running. kdeinit4 has other useful options documented elsewhere.

    Fine-tuning

    Common step: editing the kdeglobals file

    Unless otherwise stated you make all the setting changes below by editing the kdeglobals file in the directory %APPDATA%\.kde\share\config\ with any text editor (such as kwrite). (Note that for versions older than 4.0.85 the file is in %USERPROFILE%\.kde\share\config\kdeglobals.) %APPDATA% (and %USERPROFILE%) is different for different Windows users/versions/locales; in a command prompt, entering the command cd %APPDATA% will switch to it, effectively telling you what it is.

    Set Oxygen style for widgets

    The default KDE widget style on Windows is the native one. The Oxygen style installs with basic KDE installation (as a plugin library %KDEROOT%\lib\kde4\plugins\styles\oxygen.dll), so it can be used as well. To set it for a single user:

    1. edit kdeglobals
    2. locate the General section (a line containing the text "[General]"). If there is no General section, create one.
    3. Within the General section ([General]), edit the line containing widgetStyle=.... so that it reads widgetStyle=oxygen. If there is no such widgetStyle=... line, create it.

    Newly started applications should be displayed with the Oxygen style now.

    Set Tahoma (Windows default font) for widgets

    To set it for a single user:

    1. edit kdeglobals
    2. locate the General section (a line containing the text "[General]"). If there is no General section, create one.
    3. Within the General section ([General]), add these two lines:

    font=Tahoma
    menuFont=Tahoma

    Newly started applications should use this font now. Note: this works for any font you have installed.

    Change the mouse to Double Click

    To change the mouse to use double click, add a new section with a line:

    [KDE]
    SingleClick=false
    

    Newly started applications (Dolphin and Konqueror) should use double click now.

    Change locale and country settings

    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.

    For earlier versions you will need to manually set the country and locale in your kdeglobals file.

    To manually change your locale settings in your kdeglobals file, add a new section with the lines:

    [Locale]
    Country=xx
    Language=zz
    

    Replace xx with your lowercase ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 Country Code, e.g. pl for Poland. Replace zz with your lowercase 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 choose native or KDE file dialog, add a new section with the lines:

    [KFileDialog Settings]
    Native=false
    

    Either set Native to true or false.