Steven J. Terrill schrieb: > Hello, > > I became aware of the effort to port plasma to replace the explorer > shell a few weeks back from a dot.kde.org digest. I would be interested > in contributing to this effort, I do not have any OSS experience, I'm > currently a senior student of Computer Engineering. Could I have a point > of contact on this effort to talk with and possibly get pointed in the > correct direction. Ok, first thing is: Build the KDE stack directly from the source: http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge Plasma is included in a package called kdebase-workspace. Second step would be to use another GPL-licensed shell replacement called EmergeDesktop (http://emergedesktop.org/) and look into their code how they achieve a real shell replacement. > > Apart from kde itself, I'm also interested in discovering the interfaces > microsoft provides for replacing the shell. I am a Windows Vista user, > but should be able to obtain a copy of XP for vm use if plasma on vista > doesn't work at the moment. It shouldn't be a problem afaik.
If you need some more information, try joining either the irc channel #kde-windows on freenode.net or ask here again on the mailing list. Thanks for your interest and welcome here. > > Thanks, > Steven regards, Patrick > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > Kde-windows@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows -- web: http://windows.kde.org mailing list: kde-windows@kde.org irc: #kde-windows (irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
