WWDC "Surprise": KDE for OS X (among other things)

Big news is an understatement, in my opinion. I use KDE now and then through the X11/XDarwin environment, and it tends to be a nightmare - nothing runs quite as smoothly as you want it to. If it runs both natively and faster, you got a ton of switchers right there - buy macs because they both look cool and (now) are faster than any PC on the market. Sound like a win-win-win-win situation to me.

Originally posted by Nermal
maybe as simple as a recompile?

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basically it should be that simple. ( if the developper used the kde qt in a apple qt conforme way everything should just work smoothly..

So dose this mean that there wont be any need for x11 then.. just curious as when things like this turn up they either are of no use or they are usefull but not the way you want them to be

of course there will be a need for x11.
i m still running many appz on my linux boxes via x11.

This sounds great !

Perhaps Borland will "port" their Kylix development tool to OS X.

The WWDC-story gets better and better.
June 23rd 2003 seems to be the most favorite date of all times!
I run KDE on X11 on a dual 533 @ work, not too happy about speed, but this would be gr8. God, I love having options.

Who in his sane mind would not want to run Mac OS X????

Trolltech's QT is very expensive.

Typically, packages of that kind - and there have been many down through the years - produce programs that work OK for the supported platforms, but always have an odd "look and feel". The more platforms they support, the odder the look and feel. Often, there's a horrible performance penalty on some platforms, too. They never achieve a lot of acceptance.

You're always better off confining your UI elements to separate modules and customizing them for each platform specially - and not trying to support too many platforms.

I think the "Gnustep" efforts to support something like Cocoa on other platforms is potentially more interesting.

Also, KDE supports one language only - C++. Gnome would be a better choice, since it supports several languages, and doesn't have the intellectual property issues.

Originally posted by cubist
Also, KDE supports one language only - C++. Gnome would be a better choice, since it supports several languages, and doesn't have the intellectual property issues.

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I agree, KDE is not the best environment, but it's a start. Once KDE is able to run on the Mac, then what's stopping the Gnome developers from pushing it? Still a huge step.