Problems of KDE software on MacPorts

Why this page?

This page was initiated by ​this post on KDE-MAC and a PM discussion regarding ​Randa Meetings 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 the integration of KDE software on MacPorts forward.

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

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Tickets for specific KDE software issues

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See e.g. ticket search query entitled as 'Tickets marked with tag "KDE" (somewhat outdated)'

Tickets for KDE software show stopper

kdelibs' XML translator meinproc4 crashes

One of the biggest show stoppers is the spuriously occurring meinproc4 crash. There is an ​ongoing discussion about it on KDE-DEVEL.

​261509 meinproc4: crash with segfault on Mac OS X

#29503, #30162, #37620, #41326, #41575, #41576 - some MacPorts tickets related to meinproc4

Major layout issues on OSX

​296810 KMultiTabBar: Does not correctly handle Mac font sizes
​332335 QML components: Links fade to pitch black when mouse hoovering over them
​296845 Font rendering broken in OS X

Bug report wizard failing

In a ​post to KDE-DEVEL it is described what happens when the user tries to call the bug report wizard in KDE applications. This usually simply opens a browser accessing bugs.kde.org, but it fails on MacPorts even if a web browser is configured properly in the system configuration of KDE software. In the latter case this leads to an endless respawning of browser windows, but this can also happen on Linux, see ​be-shell's ticket 21 on SourceForge.

Tickets for build system of KDE software (cmake)

NOTE for Mavericks (OSX 10.9): Currently the ​patch given in #41321 is a must-have to build any cmake-based ports!
This can be done by setting up a local MacPorts tree which contains the patched file cmake-1.0.ctl in /dports/_resources/port1.0/group

​RSS (19) all cmake (#41256, #44237, #48288, #48652, #53201, #53615, #59780, #62698, #64009, #64194, #66953, #68874, #69209, #69317, #69702, #69832, #69990, #70969, #71276)

Tickets for Qt4/KDE core-libraries version 4

​RSS (22) all qt4-mac (#36410, #36431, #38838, #39803, #43431, #43499, #44998, #44999, #46606, #46607, #47197, #47466, #49344, #49793, #52862, #53369, #57473, #66407, #67146, #68496, #69122, #70410)

​RSS (14) all kdelibs4 (#33187, #33387, #36749, #37087, #44398, #44882, #49296, #49595, #53733, #56426, #57554, #62105, #67881, #68452)

​RSS (1) all kdepimlibs4 (#41177)

Issues at ​Qt's bug tracker

​19873 problems being able to start a debug version of a KDE application (here KMyMoney)
​32943 warning about nested modal dialog sessions on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Minor issues at ​KDE's bug tracker

​316404 about-dialog glitch in KDE applications regarding scrolling in TextEdit fields might be caused by Qt 4.8.5 and should be fixed in current master 4.8.6
​333337 Kate, Kwrite and KDevelop show an unexpected About menu item in OSX' main "Help" drop-down menu.

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 !!! )
#27931 - ​discussion thread on KDE-DEVEL concerning application icons not shown in OSX finder and dock
kdevelop - ​ongoing discussion thread on KDEVELOP regarding a crashing application built by KDevelop

Tickets marked with tag "KDE" (somewhat outdated)

​RSS (10) all KDE software-related tickets (#26587, #27931, #43569, #43711, #44247, #70375, #70393, #70398, #70405, #70413)

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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
• ​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

KDE's developers are running a ​Jenkins-based CI system for the most of the KDE software. While this is already fully functioning for Linux a similar Windows-CI system is in a similar state to the idea of a CI system for KDE application on Mac(ports).

There is also a set of ​code-vetting software called English Breakfast Network (EBN, for short) which supports all developers in writing cleaner code and documentation.

The KDE community has plans to introduce CI of KDE software also on OSX. Currently there is an ongoing discussion on KDE-DEVEL about this. MacPort's key developers' expertise regarding the setup of their buildbots could perhaps be helpful for the KDE folks. On the other hand one might also run Jenkins on OSX and adapt its configuration to the KDE software's requirements.

Qt5 and KF5

The new Qt5 eventually leads to the new still-under-construction ​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

​homebrew-kf5 - Already existing recipies for KF5 on Homebrew

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Additional information

• MacPorts-Wiki
• KDE - Installing KDE application version 4 with MacPorts
• ​Installing a development environment using MacPorts (somewhat outdated, still needs to be tested with current versions of OSX and KDE)

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Resources at BitBucket (using Mercurial)

• ​Dedicated MacPorts tree for tests of KDE software
• ​Repository containing helpful environment and bash files for MacPorts users and port maintainers