Publish more of KDE's applications in the Microsoft Store
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The KDE Community now has an account on the Microsoft Store where we can publish our applications. We should make more of our applications available through it so more people can benefit from our software.
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lydia created this task.Sep 2 2018, 1:18 PM

Hello, I would be interested to have the elisa music player published on the windows store. How can I help to do it ?

lydia added a subscriber: vonreth.Sep 5 2018, 6:53 PM

Great! Can you create a sub-task for it like the other ones and then @vonreth can help as time permits.

Is there any tutorial about how to build our software to Windows and put it to Windows Store?

I need to praise once more Hannah's work :=)
I think we need to document somewhere better how to get access to the account for publishing stuff and the process.
I hope the Kate submission get's approved in the next days, then we can take a look how well it is perceived, given it has a theoretically much larger user group as target than e.g. KStars.

I need to praise once more Hannah's work :=)
I think we need to document somewhere better how to get access to the account for publishing stuff and the process.
I hope the Kate submission get's approved in the next days, then we can take a look how well it is perceived, given it has a theoretically much larger user group as target than e.g. KStars.

I would like also to praise Hannah's work and also the binary factory. If you get any doc or advice, I would be very interested to apply it to Elisa.

ognarb added a subscriber: ognarb.Sep 12 2019, 1:21 PM

Just been looking through the statistics we get from Microsoft and it appears that the following applications are quite popular on Windows:

  • Kile
  • Okular
  • Kdenlive
  • KDevelop
  • GPGME
  • KStars

In some cases the applications have thousands of users in the past 30 days.

The current applications seem to be perceived well.
Ratings are nice and downloads of >> 100 per day for Okular & Kate.

ghost34 added a subscriber: ghost34.EditedOct 5 2019, 2:13 PM

Why KDE Applications on Windows not looks in Breeze style? Would kool to make unify Breeze style of KDE Applications in Windows, how it's made in Spotify, just make the Breeze theme as default in the KDE Applications on Windows, for example Krita has own theme on Windows, Linux and macOS.

It bothers me because in Windows KDE Applications look very ugly and unusual.


In T9575#203592, @KonqiDragon wrote:

Why KDE Applications on Windows not looks in Breeze style? Would kool to make unify Breeze style of KDE Applications in Windows, how it's made in Spotify, just make the Breeze theme as default in the KDE Applications on Windows, for example Krita has own theme on Windows, Linux and macOS.

It bothers me because in Windows KDE Applications look very ugly and unusual.


Actually, the applications should try to fit there into the Windows style.

But you are right that at the moment the applications look not that perfect even with Windows style, especially if scaled :/

Perhaps using Breeze would improve the look and feel, are you interested in helping to try that out?

Ok, I was faster myself.
And yes, Breeze looks better, for scaled Windows stuff even more than for 1:1.

ghost34 added a comment.EditedOct 6 2019, 10:23 AM

Ok, I was faster myself.
And yes, Breeze looks better, for scaled Windows stuff even more than for 1:1.

Looks really kool, the Breeze icons are a good match with the Breeze color scheme.

In order to handle submission of next release of Elisa music player, I would be interested to get the needed access to the partner page.

I cannot promise I will have enough time to help for other applications.

In order to handle submission of next release of Elisa music player, I would be interested to get the needed access to the partner page.

> best create a sysadmin ticket for that.

And sure: already getting your app there is nice ;=)

cgilles added a subscriber: cgilles.Feb 6 2020, 2:51 PM

Hi there,

After 3 weeks of work, digiKam source code (1.2 M code lines) now compile fine under MSVC. Application is now ready to be packaged for the Windows Store...

https://build.kde.org/job/Extragear/job/digikam/job/kf5-qt5%20WindowsMSVCQt5.14/

Gilles Caulier

andreask added a subscriber: andreask.EditedJun 21 2020, 8:10 AM

Hi,

in the LibreOffice theme we have done icon themes depend on the desktop environment. So there is breeze for kde desktop, elementary for gtk, Colibre for windows and Sukapura for macOS

Colibre follow the icon guidelines for MS Office (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/design/add-in-icons-fresh). With Colibre icons LibreOffice is very nice integrated into windows. as Colibre icons are 100% svg files and use licence CC0, if wanted I can do an icon theme similar to breeze so kde apps can use colibre for the windows builds.

And as LibreOffice has the new Sukapura icon theme for macOS if kde apps will be released for mac you can use them. The translation script from LibreOffice icon names (which didn't follow freedesktop names) to kde will work for all LibO icon themes.

I'm the maintainer for the LibreOffice icon themes as one of the former maintainer of the kde breeze icons. So I have no problem to do the task (without help) the community only have to say go for it.

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0

On the KDE windows wiki page, we have a (probably outdated) list of apps for Win: https://community.kde.org/Windows

There is also a link for Choclatey there KDE Software at Chocolatey. Is there a way to get a link for the Windows store like that? If so we should start promoting it! By my count we have 7 apps there now. Perhaps that will help the other 15 get some traction. Without promotion we won't get new volunteers.

An up-to-date page is one of the steps to promotion so people can find our work.

Thanks to @brute4s99 who found https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/search/shop/Apps?q=KDE+e.V. and ms-windows-store://publisher/?name=KDE+e.V. in the Microsoft Store app

Is somebody already working on packaging Dolphin for the Windows Store ?

I have tested the current builds on my work laptop and they seem to work fine and do the job (I had crashes with a previous version).

Is somebody already working on packaging Dolphin for the Windows Store ?

I have tested the current builds on my work laptop and they seem to work fine and do the job (I had crashes with a previous version).

Dolphins trashbin support is currently broken on Windows so moving files to the bin isn't possible, shift+del does work.
I guess its kio used for that and we should just use https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfile.html#moveToTrash.
And for the rest, dolphin does an amazing work for the parts that do work, but there are still many dead menu entries etc but I guess we should really focus on dolphin for the next app in the store.

alex added a subscriber: alex.EditedNov 10 2020, 10:03 AM

I guess its kio used for that and we should just use https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfile.html#moveToTrash.

Had the exact same idea when using dolphinon windows :)

But there are still many dead menu entries etc but I guess we should really focus on dolphin for the next app in the store.

I made a MR to remove the activities context menu from the build some time ago. What context menus do you explicitly mean?
The KDE Store integration to download new service menus is excluded from the windows build, because pretty much all service menus are linux only.

PS: https://phabricator.kde.org/T13847 is also a bit related to this, because some framework logic regarding terminal is currently windows-only.

I use Dolphin since a while and the biggest problem was that move to trash didn't work.

Samba didn't work which would be nice, but it's ok when it wan't work. In the Sidebar the network wasn't visible. So no issue there.

If wanted I can offer the collibre icon theme which was designed for LibreOffice on Windows 10. Collibre icon theme use the icon guidelines from MS so it would fit perfect into windows 10.

https://libreofficemaster.blogspot.com/2020/08/neo-colibre-for-maximum-productivity.html

I guess we should see KDE as a brand here and offer the native KDE icons and a breeze theme :)

alex added a comment.Nov 10 2020, 1:46 PM

And maybe we should continue a dolphin specific discussion in https://phabricator.kde.org/T9579 instead :)

albertvaka added a subscriber: albertvaka.EditedJul 17 2023, 2:26 PM

I would like to have access to the Windows Store, to be able to see crashes from KDE Connect (I've been told there are lots of them) and submit releases there.

I'm writing here as per the documentation here: https://kate-editor.org/post/2019/2019-11-03-windows-store-submission-guide/

Edit: I found the updated docs here and will file a separate ticket: https://develop.kde.org/docs/packaging/microsoftstore/