Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Jan 2007 21:01 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
"In this weeks' edition of the Road to KDE 4, we'll take a look at the up and coming KWord 2.0 as part of the KOffice project. KWord 1.6.1 is already a powerful KDE-integrated word processor, but with KDE 4 technologies, KWord 2.0 promises to be among the most powerful free word processors available. Read on for more details."
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However, the (theoretical) advantage to the KDE4 approach is that the heavy lifting is pretty much done by Qt and the core libs as far as cross-platform capability.
In theory yes, but you're missing the wider issue.
The KDE applications work very well because they are integrated and embedded in KDE's infrastructure, and that's where they work best. To make it work on Windows in an integrated way it will have to be ported to the Windows infrastructure for embedding COM objects in KOffice, clipboard etc. This is a huge amount of rather pointless work, because you can't just port KDE, you'll have to port the applications and KDE infrastructure and make it work well together with Windows.
I mean, what would be the point of simply porting the whole of KDE to Windows and running KDE on Windows rather than individual applications? You've gained nothing.