From:	Joseph Morris <doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Has anyone ported KDE to dos ?
Date:	Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:49:17 +0100
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Nate Eldredge wrote:
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> "smile773" <smile773 AT bigfoot DOT com> writes:
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> > I was wondering if KDE was available for dos.
> > The new version sure looks impressive.
> 
> Someone will have to port X Windows to DOS first,

Not necessarily.  QT, on which KDE is based, can be made
to work directly onto a linear framebuffer, theortically for
PDAs, QNX and other applications where the bloat of X is unwanted.
This would cut out a large chunk of the grunt work.
The drawback would be that the end result would not be able to
run X11 applications.. only KDE ones.

The other problem is Troll Tech, who own QT.  Their licensing is
pretty strange, for example the X11 version is open-source but
the Win32 version is not.  Adding any new platform, let alone
one as unusual as DOS will require consulting them.

> 
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> Nate Eldredge
> neldredge AT hmc DOT edu

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