I just installed KDE on Windows since I want to use BasKet on a WinXP SP3 computer. However, after installing KDE and launching Konqueror and trying to open a terminal with F4 or Tools->Open Terminal nothing happens.

No link if present in my Windows Start menu either... However I don't know if such a link should be there...

BUT I need the terminal to launch the BasKet installer..

Anybody who knows what the problem is?

Thanks and a Happy New Year!

Martin

Due to the task Konsole performs ( more imporantly how it is implemented ) it is dependant upon a UNIX system ( Mac OS, Linux, etc. ) and cannot be compiled on Windows. As a result your installation does not have it, and KDE cannot launch it.

Is there then anyway in which I can install BasKet on Windows?

I thought that all KDE on Windows applications were installed through the KDE on Windows installer. You can get a windows terminal by going Start > Run, and typing 'cmd' it is nothing like bash though, its auto completion in particular.

but the problem is that BasKet installer is a bash program...

thanks for the help even though it seems that getting BasKet on KDE for Windows is not possible

Martin

It should be possible, you can get bash for windows from the cygwin project.

I think basket is kde3 and the windows port of KDE is KDE4. Please correct me if i'm wrong.

@mcas: you're right, so for now there seems no way. However, BasKet 2.0 will of course be for KDE4, and was scheduled in early 2008 for late 2008, but I have not found any recent news on when BasKet 2 will be ready.

But thanks to both of you for prompt help!

Martin

I have not followed KDE development for a while and was pleasantly surprised to find that it has come a long way on windows! There is some excellent stuff out there, and kate especially is terrific.

konsole is the other missing piece for me (nice tabbed terminals).

I successfully built it years ago for PC using the cygwin and a X server, but the build had issues (bells, fonts). I would drag it along to new platforms, but eventually it was unusable.

Is anyone working on konsole for windows?

Has anyone built it in cygwin recently?

Nevermind, mrxvt is up and running nicely with cygwin. Their development has progressed a long way, and they now have a decent multi-terminal tabbed environment that switches with standard ctrl-pgup and ship-arrow combos.

But kate is still awesome! Thanks again!

One of the recent versions (I believe it was one of the 4.3 RC's) had konsole packaged. It wasn't very usable, though (ran cmd but lacked key bindings making it essentially inferior to cmd itself).

I would also love to see konsole on windows (with a separate package for common command-line utilities including bash, ssh client, nano/vi/terminal editor). Cygwin is pretty nice, but I would prefer to rely (entirely, if possible) on native/KDE apps for such things.

Regarding Konsole you can read KDE4Win developers explanation here:
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-windo ... 04580.html

Regarding Basket, first alpha or beta version is about to get packaged, follow this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/basket-deve ... 00067.html
and someone patched it to work on Windows too!
http://www.mail-archive.com/basket-deve ... 00099.html