KDE on Windows

EDIT: I should add that I am a linux user now (and I have just recently switched to KDE4 from Gnome (for the second time)). As a whole, I like linux as an operating system better than Windows, although I don't think that linux desktop environments have been keeping up with Windows in certain areas, especially anything to do with integration (clipboard, drag and drop, etc). There are just too many environments, window managers, and toolkits out there for it to be totally unified. That's all I'm trying to say in my recent comments. Oh, and also, theoretically, if everyone who codes these desktop environments all focused on 1 instead of 3-4, that one would be way better than Windows (although, in practice, that's impossible, because they all have different approaches and the coders would never get along :) ).

I used coLinux, Xming, and a virtual TAP network to run KDE on Windows.
coLinux - http://www.colinux.org/
Xming - http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
How-To - http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/CoLinuxASAP

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[KKarlozss]

Windows 7 has a lot of very good stuff that GNU/linux OSs don't have and all the good stuff that GNU/linux OSs have that windows 7 doesn't are being ported to windows XP/Vista/7 etc ..

So do you think GNU/linux OSs will be one day at least as good as Microsoft OSs??

I started to think that no .. never if it continues in this way.

[1saac356]

@KKarlozss Unfortunatly, you're right. For example, I believe there is no good file browser in linux. Thunar is too lightweight, PCManFM is at least a little more elegant, but for whatever reason, it doesn't list files in alphabetical order, and, while nautilus is great, Gnome in general is starting to go down the tubes. If there were only one environment and one file manager, it would probably be much better.

KDE and Gnome have a lot of catching up to do before they are on W7's level.

[KKarlozss]

I would like to know why?

For wich use?

What is the need?

Why the effort to this portability?

Just to say .. because we can !!??

[1saac356]

@KKarlozss Pretty much, yes. Just to say we can. It's far from working perfectly on Windows, but if it did, it could provide a surperior working environment while retaining the ability to run games (that don't yet work in wine), ore use devices that need proprietary drivers, etc.

However, I've given up on it, as I'm a full-time linux user now.

[DlKogilniceanu]

@elpsychodiablo for sure is not need for most of users, but for me is very useful :P.

[DlKogilniceanu]

Cool

I have always on my laptop linux and windows. Now i will put on windows kde and SUA and I'll have full support of linux on windows. cool stuff. many thanks.

[1saac356]

@alanstryder Heh, yes, I did create it. Bring on the questions :)

My problem, if I remember correctly, was trying to copy stuff out of Firefox/Chrome on LXDE into OpenOffice (images, rich text, etc), not just plain text. I know you can do that on Windows with MS Word (and OOo?).

As for programming, I only made a few simple programs to learn QT and GTK. I'm not involved with Gnome or KDE (in case that's what you were thinking). And, most of my work is C#(.NET) on Windows :( (hey, work is work)

[1saac356]

@alanstryder Yeah, QT apps tend to be nicer in general. I've also programmed in both QT and GTK, and I find QT easier and more enjoyable, which puzzles me as to why there are more proprietary GTK apps (Hulu Desktop comes to mind as the major closed source one, Firefox and Google Chrome as well, although they are open source). I think it's because of the popularity of Ubuntu.

Anyways, in those cases, there tend to be issues (especially with copying and pasting rendered HTML out of web browsers).

[1saac356]

@alanstryder KDE is nice (probably the best desktop environment, IMO), but most linux applications are written in GTK, and they don't integrate well (at least, in my experience).

Also, on linux, you can come across applications that don't interact with each other (clipboard, drag & drop...). That happens less often on Windows.

I'm not saying Windows is better (dll hell, blue screens...), but it has advantages (and disadvantages) by integrating ui elements into the operating system.