Bug 182700

Summary: kwin port for windows
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Giacomo Graziosi <g.graziosi>
Component: generalAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: vipner142
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
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Description Giacomo Graziosi 2009-02-01 12:36:14 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                MS Windows
Installed from:    MS Windows

Porting kwin to Windows is a required step to allow users to replace the Windows shell with KDE.
Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2009-04-02 12:40:27 UTC 
Let's face it: this will never happen.

KWin source code has been written with only X11 in mind. So porting to Windows would be more difficult than writing a new window manager for Windows.

Adding support for Windows platform would make KWin an unmaintainable monster and that would neither help Linux nor Windows users.