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==Development== | ==Development== |
Revision as of 22:20, 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."
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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
- Windows specific features: modifying the location of .kde and some more internal settings
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- Issues, TODOs, and status info (on individual apps, libraries, or other parts of the project) (outdated)
- 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