How to make kde4 my default Desktop manager in Windows. Kde-windows Digest, Vol 57, Issue 26

[M.Z.]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: john smart
To: KDE on Windows
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 05:50 AM
Subject: Re: How to make kde4 my default Desktop manager in Windows.


> So this will work fine, and is easy to uninstall, but I wont be able to 
> access Control Panel and Windows menus that rely on Explorer?

Correct... Control Panel is a collection of OLE based sub-views that assumes 
the OLE support Explorer implements. The menus operate through similar 
interfaces.

> Will I be able to access Control Panel at all?

Not as a consolidated view, but individual .cpl and .mmc files can be 
executed out of windows\system(32, 64). Doing this for .cpl files will start 
Explorer in non-shell mode, though.

> Will I still be able to access Windows menus that rely on Explorer any 
> other way?

No. Whatever applications are used will have to be KDE4 aware as well as 
Explorer.

> Will I still be able to access the internet through IE8, and will I still 
> be able to run games that I usually run in Windows XP or Windows 7??

You should, unless the games assume for some reason that Explorer is always 
the shell. None I know of do, and IE8 doesn't.

Cheers,
Mark

Cheers

John

--- On Mon, 28/6/10, Om Nom Nom <dakiato at gmail.com> wrote:




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