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-=KDE Cygwin by Holger Schröder =-

KDE under Cygwin uses the Cygwin X server which is a patched version of XFree86.  It runs well but is slower than native KDE.  

Graphical installation packages would be nice, they don't have them at the moment.

Starts KMines which works.  Konqueror takes a time to startup but once it is up it's not much slower than Mozilla.  We even have Quanta for the web developers who are using Windows, also Umbrello but not KOffice yet.

If we want KDE for windows we need to remove Cygwin and X, this would speed things up.

Starts up QtDesigner under Cygwin/X and it's slow.  Starts up QtDesigner using native Qt and it's fast.  It uses the GPL'd version of Qt for Unix ported to Windows.  They use MinGW the port of GCC to Windows which knows how to build .dll files.  

The Kexi project has a stripped down KDE libs.  We are approaching the same direction.  There is also MacOS X ports.  These should be ported into KDE CVS.

What are the differences between Cygwin and other emulators such as VMWare?  Cygwin is a library and you have to recompile your applications against it.  VMWare runs a complete operating system.

How much work is needed with the Qt-KDE-Wrapper library used by Kexi Windows build to get it working with other KDE programmes?  It is stripped down for only the things needed for Kexi but they are working with it.