From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 29 20:28:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net (smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A19DE37B42C for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 7444 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2001 02:24:14 -0000 Received: from mail1.ha-net.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([207.44.96.65]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Apr 2001 02:24:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 16409 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2001 03:27:57 -0000 Received: from du68.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([204.186.33.68]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Apr 2001 03:27:57 -0000 Message-ID: <3AEA20D3.146909BA@mail.ptd.net> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:45:55 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Zepeda Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the interest in comercial desktop apps for FreeBSD? References: <20010426171918.D1977@zippy.mybox.zip> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alex Zepeda wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to pose this question, but here I > go anyways. > > I've been wrestling with GNUCash in an effort to help the developers get > the cvs versions (1.5.x) working on FreeBSD. But being a KDE fan, I've > noticed an absence of free Qt/KDE offerings. Kapital looks interesting, > and I'm sure it'd run under Linux emulation.. but I'm perhaps in a > position to convince them to offer a FreeBSD binary. If they spent some > time "porting" Kapital (or perhaps one of their other offerings) to > FreeBSD, would anybody be interested in buying a copy? This is the reponse I got when I asked about Kapital on FreeBSD: > At 07:32 PM 2/19/2001, you wrote: > >Will Kapital run under FreeBSD's Linux binary compatibility? Thank you. > > I have absolutely no idea, none of us have FreeBSD. When we release the > demo in a couple of weeks you can give it a try and let us know, I'm sure > other people would be interested to know. Before you ask, I don't know if > we will try to support FreeBSD, just supporting all the various Linux > distributions is a major undertaking :) > > Regards, > > Shawn Gordon > President > theKompany.com > www.thekompany.com > 949-713-3276 I have not tried the demo, because I am still on Qt 1.x, and it needs 2.x, or so it says. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message