Zack Rusin of KDE has said KDE4 will have full support for widgets from OS X's Dashboard. "I finally got most the implementation of the HTML Canvas element for KHTML finished. It's in the kdelibs-js branch in SVN. After George/Maks merge their other changes we'll merge it to HEAD. I'm planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma (hence why I've spent most of the day yesterday on implementing the Canvas element)."
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Member since:2005-07-20
KDE developers have often refused to port KDE programs such as KOffice over to Windows even though it was possible for several versions already. KDE has always used Qt and it has always been possible to port it's applications with some level of work involved, it's not simply a matter of recompiling because KDE programs use the KDE libraries wich have dependencies beyond Qt itself.
Except that Qt 3 isn't available for Windows for free. Qt 4 is available as Gpl for Windows and thus most programs will work on Windows when the whole Kde core is ported to Qt 4 as of Kde 4.
Member since:2005-11-02
Except that Qt 3 isn't available for Windows for free. Qt 4 is available as Gpl for Windows and thus most programs will work on Windows when the whole Kde core is ported to Qt 4 as of Kde 4.
This means Koffice will become available for Windows providing yet another way of handling ODF documents in Windows. Yet another reason for not to move to MS's new XML format but to adopt ODF.
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2005-06-29
"Qt 4 together with Kde 4 will bring every Kde program to Windows and Mac. IMHO."
I would like to see some programs ported too, but I wouldn't count on it.
KDE developers have often refused to port KDE programs such as KOffice over to Windows even though it was possible for several versions already. KDE has always used Qt and it has always been possible to port it's applications with some level of work involved, it's not simply a matter of recompiling because KDE programs use the KDE libraries wich have dependencies beyond Qt itself.
"You don't need Gnome to use Gtk programs. They work just fine with Kde too."
True, as long as the required libraries are installed. Almost every good distribution out there will install the required libraries to run Gnome applications without actually requiring you to install Gnome.