While trying various incarnations of the KDE Plasma desktop environment on my Linux laptop, I decided I’d like to try some default KDE apps on my Windows devices.
Two default KDE Plasma apps that I particularly like are the Dolphin file manager and the Kate editor. To learn about these, see the following links.
Based on information on the above websites, it was not obvious to me how to install the latest version of each of these on Windows. This unobviousness is what inspired me to write this article.
On
binary-factory.kde.org/job/Dolphin_Release_win64/,
I downloaded the latest .exe file, for example
dolphin-23.04.1-1904-windows-cl-msvc2019-x86_64.exe,
and then ran this
installer on my Windows device.
On
binary-factory.kde.org/job/Kate_Release_win64/,
I downloaded the latest .exe file, for example
kate-23.04.1-2032-windows-cl-msvc2019-x86_64.exe,
and then ran this
installer on my Windows device.
Since I wanted a recent version of each of these, I got them from the KDE Binary Factory. If you do not need or want to be on the cutting edge, you can install these with a Windows package manager such as Chocolatey, Scoop, or winget.
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