Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Oct 2009 11:02 UTC
The Haiku alpha is barely out the door, and we already have another important news item about the open source reimplementation of the BeOS. About 18 months ago, Evgeny Abdraimov started porting the Qt4 graphical toolkit to Haiku, and now, we ave some seriously epic screenshots showing a multitude of Qt4 applications running in Haiku, as well as a developer preview release.
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Well, in reality, it would be counteractive to their OS efforts to port all of KDE. However, like the KDE on Windows or KDE on Mac efforts that are underway, it should be relatively easy to port the application suite. Additionally, like KDE on Windows, for example, which shows the OS's default file dialogs, the same integration could be achieved for Haiku, or any other Qt-supported OS.
Anyway, I'm sure that there are a few KDE 4 apps that would be useful on the platform, and there's no technical limitation on porting it, so it's just a matter of time. If someone does it, send me screenshots/info and I'll personally look after abusing the KDE marketing machine to promote the Haiku platform as another host for KDE 
Nice work.
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2006-04-03
So when will KDE4 for Haiku be released? ;-)
Actually, it would be nice to see how well it performs. And if it performs better, smoother or worse than on Linux (not that I have any complaints about that).