Apologies in advance about this topic if it highlights ignorance of Operating system security and KDE internal architecture.

I am currently learning a new language and after encountering Parley, I have become a fan of it. As part of review of the software which I posted to an internet forum devoted to the language, I installed it on Windows and in doing so come across the KDE Windows project.

It got my thinking, for what I've read, while KDE Windows is a very young project, could it possibly go in the way of being implement part of the KDE desktop to an MS Windows environment?

The viewpoint where I see this being beneficial is the integration of internet security with normal KDE desktop software to ensure hackers are unable to exploit any vulnerabilites like keystroke logging. While these potential security benefits may not protect the underlying Windows Operating system, it should protect the user if they use KDE software. If this is possible, it would be a motivator for folk to adopt KDE on MS Windows other than to do get brilliant individual applications that wouldn't otherwise be available to them.

The other benefit, if this is possible, is in theory, if exploits in KDE architecture is found, they will be implemented into KDE *nix Desktop and ensure these vulnerabilities are not exploited when hackers eventually go after the *nix environment, particularly Linux, when in the future it becomes popular enough to make it profitable to go after.

I'm just wondering if anybody has any views on this or if what I mentioned is not at possible at all?

AFAIK, KDE on Windows isn't really all that segregated from the OS - it doesn't abstract the OS completely away so that OS vulnerabilities are no longer exploitable, it is just a collection of software which sits on top of Windows, so Windows OS exploits would still be effective if they used KDE software on Windows. In other words, KDE on Windows would protect the system about as much as Firefox or Chrome or other cross-platform software (which are all still vulnerable to key-stroke loggers installed in the OS itself).

Thanks for replying to this airdrik.

I've had a look into this and not sure if this could be implemented through KDE Solid which from my understanding deals with hardware interaction which I would feel that keyboards and OS network modules would come under.