[ros-general] KDE for ReactOS

[Mikko Tikkanen]

2005/10/17, Roland Leißa <ros_knue at web.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I have read a bit of your homepage and a bit of the mailinglists.
> Some people complained about the quite "ugly" GUI. Here my suggestion: Do not
> put your energy in improving the GUI for ReactOS. It would be nice when
> ReactOS will run on slow and older machines, too. But a ReactOS-Distro could
> include KDE (or GNOME) as default GUI. There will be a KDE- and a
> GNOME-version for Windows in a year or so. Hence it will also run on ReactOS
> (at least theoratically). So people who like to have a marvelous looking
> desktop enviroment can use KDE or GNOME. Besides there will be dozens of
> usefull application (just think of Kate, K3B, Kile, AmaroK, Konqueror,
> KOffice, KMail, Kontact, ...).
> A ReactOS-Distro could, of couse, include all those packages and a
> linux-distro-like package manager. It would be great to see mingw-, qt-,
> gtk-, wx-, gnome- and kde-dlls. This would make a ReactOS-Distro very thin
> and lean because - for instance - every wx-application can link dynamically
> against the wx-library and so on.

Except that KDE or GNOME isn't really a Windows GUI nor can it run
Windows software (presuming on the applications you mentioned)...


-mikko