KDE on Cygwin is the port of
K Desktop Environment 1
K Desktop Environment 1 was the inaugural series of releases of the KDE Software Compilation, K Desktop Environment. There were two major releases in this series.
Pre-release
The development started right after Matthias Ettrich's announcement ...
,
2, and
3 and the corresponding versions of the
Qt toolkit
Qt ( pronounced "cute") is a cross-platform application development framework for creating graphical user interfaces as well as Cross-platform software, cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as L ...
to the
Windows Operating System by using
Cygwin
Cygwin ( ) is a free and open-source Unix-like environment and command-line interface (CLI) for Microsoft Windows. The project also provides a software repository containing open-source packages. Cygwin allows source code for Unix-like operati ...
, a
POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX; ) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines application programming interfaces (APIs), along with comm ...
emulation layer.
''KDE on Cygwin'' helps Windows computers to run applications originally created for Qt and KDE, by providing the applications with the necessary dependencies in a transparent manner.
The project is no longer being developed as since 2009 there exists a natively-compiled version of
KDE SC 4 for Windows.
History
The project was started by Ralf Habacker in May 2001. Its goal was to ensure compatibility of major programs that were originally only available by using a Linux distribution.
After cessation of active development of ''KDE on Cygwin'', the efforts to provide the KDE environment on Windows continue with the ''KDE Windows Initiative''.
Ported Software
As with many emulation examples, not all the common KDE programs are guaranteed to work unmodified on ''KDE on Cygwin'' due to the complex interaction of all the libraries needed. The
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...
nature of KDE and several of the programs running on it, allows some of these shortcomings to be found and circumvented.
The project has ported various Qt and KDE versions, and are considered of
beta
Beta (, ; uppercase , lowercase , or cursive ; or ) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2. In Ancient Greek, beta represented the voiced bilabial plosive . In Modern Greek, it represe ...
quality.
KDE-Cygwin page on SourceForge
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Qt
* 1.45
* 2.3.1
* 3.0.4
* 3.1.1
* 3.2.3
K Desktop Environment
* 1.45
* 2.2.2
* 3.1.1
* 3.1.4
References
External links
KDE on Cygwin homepageCygwin official homepageKDE homepage
KDE
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