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= Problems of KDE software =


== Why this page? ==

This page was initiated by [http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2014-February/000849.html this post on KDE-MAC] and a PM discussion regarding [http://randa-meetings.ch/2014/02/19/randa-meetings-2014-the-date-is-set-please-register Randa participation] of MacPorts developers. It shall serve as a place to highlight certain KDE software related tickets which need special attention in order to bring KDE's integration on MacPorts forward.

Special maintainer/developer information - which is not covered in the [wiki:KDE KDE wiki page] - could be gathered here.


== Tickets for specific KDE software issues  ==

 ''NOTE: We could use some unique tags in order to highlight specific topics. [[BR]] See e.g. ticket search query entitled as 'Tickets marked with tag "KDE" (somewhat outdated)' ''



=== Tickets for KDE software show stopper ===

==== KDE's XML translator meinproc4 crashes ====

One of the biggest show stoppers is the spuriously occurring meinproc4 crash. There is an [http://lists.kde.org/?t=139514981600001&r=1&w=2 ongoing discussion about it] on KDE-DEVEL. 

[https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261509 261509] meinproc4: crash with segfault on Mac OS X

#29503, #30162, #41326, #41575, #41576 - some MacPorts tickets related to meinproc4


==== Major layout issues on OSX ====

[https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296810 296810] KMultiTabBar: Does not correctly handle Mac font sizes [[BR]]
[https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332335 332335] QML components: Links fade to pitch black when mouse hoovering over them [[BR]]
[https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296845 296845] Font rendering broken in OS X 


==== Bug report wizard failing ====

In a [http://lists.kde.org/?t=139557219200002&r=1&w=2&n=6 post to KDE-DEVEL] it is described what happens when the user tries to call KDE's bug report wizard. This usually simply opens a browser accessing bugs.kde.org, but it's fails on MacPorts even if a web browser is configured properly in KDE's system configuration. In the latter case this leads to an endless respawning of browser windows, but this can also happen on Linux, see [https://sourceforge.net/p/be-shell/tickets/21/ be-shell's ticket 21 on SourceForge].



=== Tickets for build system of KDE software (cmake) ===

 ''NOTE: Currently the [https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/41321/cmake-1.0-2.tcl.diff patch] given in #41321 is a must-have to build any cmake-based ports! ''

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=== Issues at [https://bugreports.qt-project.org Qt's bug tracker] ===

[https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-19873 19873] problems being able to start a debug version of a KDE application (here KMyMoney) [[BR]]
[https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32943 32943] warning about nested modal dialog sessions on OS X 10.9 Mavericks



=== Minor issues at [https://bug.kde.org KDE's bug tracker] ===

[https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316404 316404] KDE's about-dialog glitch regarding scrolling in TextEdit fields might be caused by Qt 4.8.5 and should be fixed in current master 4.8.6



=== Selected tickets for some KDE applications ===

#41431 - 3 crashing plugins have been intentionally removed in kdenlive 0.9.6 (''bug reports at b.k.o.'' '''STILL TO BE DONE !!! ''') [[BR]]
#27931 - [http://lists.kde.org/?t=139551365000001&r=1&w=2 discussion thread on KDE-DEVEL] concerning application icons not shown in OSX finder and dock [[BR]]
kdevelop - [http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdevelop/2014-March/018250.html ongoing discussion thread on KDEVELOP] regarding a crashing application built by KDevelop

=== Tickets marked with tag "KDE" (somewhat outdated) ===

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== Upcoming new version 4.13 of KDE applications ==

There are ongoing discussions on KDE-DEVEL about
 * the upcoming replacement of nepomuk by baloo and
 * [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=139690319125775&w=2 options to disable baloo] on OSX or reconfigure it in such a way that there is no interference with OSX' Spotlight


== Continuous Integration of KDE software on OSX ==

The KDE community has plans for CI of KDE software on OSX as it is [http://build.kde.org/ done for Linux] (Windows-CI is still in conceptual phase). Currently there is an ongoing discussion on KDE-DEVEL and MacPort-dev's expertise regarding the setup of their buildbots could be helpful for KDE. On the other hand one might also run Jenkins on OSX, as [http://build.kde.org KDE's build infrastructure] is based on it.


== Qt5 and KF5 ==

The new Qt5 eventually leads to the new still-under-construction [http://community.kde.org/Frameworks KDE Frameworks].

 ''NOTE: At this stage there is not yet an official Qt5 port for MacPorts available due to lack of resources.''

#37331 - Discussions about a possible portfile for qt5-mac

[https://github.com/haraldF/homebrew-kf5 homebrew-kf5] - Already existing recipies for KF5 on Homebrew