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"''KDE 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.''"[[Image:Konqi-win.png|frame|right|Konqi, the KDE mascot now also supporting Windows]]


The KDE on Windows Initiative is an ongoing project to port the KDE applications to Windows.


"''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.''"[[Image:Konqi-win.png|frame|right|Konqi, the KDE mascot now also supporting MS Windows]]
== Application Installers ==


The [http://windows.kde.org/ 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.
=== Installers from Application Websites ===


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* [https://www.digikam.org/download/binary#Windows digiKam]
==Overview==
* [https://kate-editor.org/get-it/ Kate & KWrite]
*[[/Presentations|Presentations]]
* [https://www.kdevelop.org/download KDevelop]
*[[/How to Help|How to Help / Join]]
* [https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Releases KEXI]
*[http://windows.kde.org windows.kde.org]
* [https://kmymoney.org/ KMymoney]
*[[/Maintainers|Maintainers]] of Windows version of particular module or application
* [https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/ Krita]
*[[/FAQ|Frequently answered questions]]
* [http://edu.kde.org/marble/download.php Marble Virtual Globe]
* [http://download.kde.org/stable/umbrello/latest/ Umbrello UML Modeller]
* [https://rkward.kde.org/Windows RKWard]
 
=== App Stores / Package Managers ===
 
* [https://chocolatey.org/profiles/KDE KDE Software at Chocolatey]


==User Installation==
== News ==
*[[/Installation|Install KDE 4 on Windows]] using the KDE Installer for Windows
*[[/additional_software_needed|Additional Software]] that is needed for some programs to work properly


==Development==
* Blog roll of Kevin Funk: http://kfunk.org/tag/kde-windows/
*[[Getting_Started/Build/Windows/emerge|Build KDE 4 on Windows]] using ''emerge''
*[[Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Debugging_on_MS_Windows|Debugging on MS Windows]]
*[[/Development Workflow|Development Workflow]]
*[[/Issues |Issues, TODOs, and status info]] (on individual apps, libraries, or other parts of the project)
*[[/Tools|Tools]] (required or useful)
*[[/Porting Guidelines|Porting Guidelines]]
*[http://community.kde.org/KDE_Windows/Meetings Meetings]
*[[/Windows CE|Windows CE]]
*Source code in the KDE git: [http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=emerge.git emerge]


=== Information for application developers ===
== Getting in Touch ==
*[[/Compiling_Applications|Compiling (third party) KDE apps on Windows]]
*[[/Packaging|Packaging / Distributing KDE apps on Windows]]


===(Release) status info===
* IRC: [irc://irc.freenode.net/kde-windows #kde-windows] on Freenode
*Current release target is KDE 4.9 ([http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=134856419908374&w=2]). Recently it has been suggested to skip to 4.10, however ([http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=135784778022201&w=2])
*Nightly builds (logs):
**[http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/release/ Release-Series]
**[http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/ master]


== Qt5/KDE5 status ==
* Mailing list:  [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]] ([https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows  subscribe], [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&r=1&w=2 archives])
* 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==
==Development==
*[mailto:[email protected] [email protected]] mailing list: [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows  subscribe], [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&r=1&w=2 archives]
*[[Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Windows|Build KDE on Windows]] using [[Craft]]
*[irc://irc.freenode.net/kde-windows #kde-windows] channel on irc.freenode.net
*[[/Debugging|Debugging on Windows]]
*Related blogs: [http://aheinecke.blogspot.de/ aheinecke], [http://saroengels.blogspot.com/ saroengels], Not active: [http://chehrlic.blogspot.com chehrlic], [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/104 jstaniek]
*[[/Development Workflow|Development Workflow]]
*[[/In the Press|KDE on Windows in the press]]
*[[/Tools|Tools]] (required or useful)
*Source code in the KDE git: [https://cgit.kde.org/craft.git/ Craft]
*[[/How to Help|How to Help / Join]]


[[Category:MS Windows]]
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Revision as of 19:45, 23 April 2018

"KDE 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."

Konqi, the KDE mascot now also supporting Windows

The KDE on Windows Initiative is an ongoing project to port the KDE applications to Windows.

Application Installers

Installers from Application Websites

App Stores / Package Managers

News

Getting in Touch

Development