Steven J. Terrill said the following, On 2008-08-28 15:48: > 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. > > 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.
Steven, The reality is that if these interfaces do exist, are really unofficial^h^h private. You'll do whatever you want in your KDE installation, and perhaps I'll be curious what you'll achieve. Having what you proposed as an option is of course welcome, since it's all FOSS development. But my opinion is that changes like this, made to the interface not designed for being replaceable, can break 3rd-party applications that depend on the defaultdesktop. Thus I trust in the _default_ setting of the KDE on Windows being relatively nonintrusive. And my advice (from the very beginning before even Plasma things emerged) has been that "if you want good desktop experience, use the full Desktop on a Unix platform". If you want example of nonintrusive 3rd-party technology running on top of different desktop, look at Wine: the Windows applications, while running on Linux/Unix, do not try to do any harm the underlying desktop layer, no matter it is GNOME, KDE, or FluxThingie WM[tm] :) Regards, with a hope you'll find your area in the KDE development :) -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Sponsored by OpenOffice Polska (http://www.openoffice.com.pl/en) to work on Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi.pl/en, http://www.koffice.org/kexi) KDE Libraries for MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
