KDE on Windows

[Ralf Habacker]

Eduard Sukharev schrieb:
> В сообщении от Wednesday 13 August 2008 09:30:32 wayne_tempel at comcast.net 
> написал(а):
>   
>> Hello,
>>      I downloaded KDE for Windows and installed it. It didn't work to well
>> for me though. Somethings work and some don't. Konqueror is one of  the
>> ones that doesn't. Is there something else that I need to install for KDE
>> to work on Windows? Thanks for your time.
>>     
>
>
> Assuming that you are really new to KDE on Windows i guess you're talking 
> about the issue every new KDE on Windows user encounter - failing to launch 
> the Konqueror.
> Try these things:
> 1) Press Win+R (or just go to Start -> Run...) and enter 
> there 'konqueror.exe'. See if that will launch Konqi.
> 2) See what icon does the shortcut in Start menu has for Konqueror - if it's 
> somewhat like blue cupboard, then it's definitely the same problem for all. 
> That shortcut points to kfmclient.exe instead of konqueror.exe, so no 
> Konqueror is launched. You may fix that by writing 'konqueror.exe' instead 
> of 'kfmclient.exe' in shortcut properties dialog (in target input field).
>   
the correct solution is adding the term

openProfile webbrowsing

to the target
> I guess this bug is really annoying for all newcomers, but it's really easy to 
> fix manually. Though, the error itself hides somewhere in the automated 
> process of creating shortcuts in start menu, so the bug isn't that easy to 
> fix.
>   
It looks that the command line parameters are truncated while generating 
the start menu entry. I will take a look.

Ralf