KDE on Windows- Flash Drive

[Piotr Pełzowski]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> This may already be in the works or done.  But it seems to me that a
> grate PR thing would be to have a single windows installer for Konqueror
> .  Sort of Firefox/IE competition.   Again, forgive me if this has
> already be discussed.
> (...)
> If you had something that was, install the cool KDE web browser with one
> simple install, it might be good PR and get more people interested in KDE.
>

It is a great idea! Not only for konqueror but for all kde-win apps.

Possible option would by to provide .exe installer which in fact is net
installer for chosen KDE application.

For example kopete-installer.exe would check by default kde-network and
install it also with dependencies. Simplistic installer which will install
preconfigured app, on the last page of installer we could ask "do you want
to install other kde apps?".  As a result for ex. kopete, konquror, dolphin
could be installed as a standalone application but there would by a submenu
in StartMenu "Install more KDE apps".

Advantages?:
- more natural for windows users. One installer for one application
- That kind of installer can by hosted on many Windows-applications portals
which would promote kde apps to a great extent.
- Those kde-win apps which already work well on Windows can be deployed
faster.
- Also this installer would by nice to put on homepage of any kdeapp.




pozdrawiam,
Piotr Pełzowski
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