Fwd: [dot-notify] When will Konqueror become the number two browser?

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sun Jun 15 22:34:16 BST 2003


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On Sunday 15 June 2003 19:04, you wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 07:10:53PM +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > This KHTML on Win32 project was started and needs developers skilled in
> > > KDE and Win32 to help out. Talk of the free non-commercial use of
> > > Qt/Windows was big when it was released, but nothing has come of it.
> > > What is the right way to get Konqueror on win32?
> >
> > The right way is to support the KDE-Cygwin people,
> > http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ , and help them porting the GPL'ed
> > version of Qt/X11 to win32.
>
> Are you saying this because you think this is the only way it will
> happen?
>
> I ask, because cygwin isn't going to make Konqueror available to 
> Windows users, and thus it really isn't going to increase the
> popularity of Konquorer at all. We need a simple double-click windows
> install wizard for a native win32 executable.

If you go to the website mentioned above you will discover the qt/win32 
project that aims to provide a GPL'ed native Qt/win32 library that doesn't 
require the cygwin environment. 

Cheers,
Waldo
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