Hi Alex, For general info, the title of review 125163 is "Disable X11,XCB etc. detection on OS X".
On 13/09/2015, at 7:33 AM, Alex Merry wrote: > Could OS X developers please give input on > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125163/ ? Gods give me patience! > I'm particularly interested in knowing whether building KF5-based software > with X11 support on OS X (via homebrew or macports) is a thing people do. I don't know about Homebrew, but on Macports I do not think anybody is building KF5-based software PERIOD. And the prospect of any KF5-based software ever being released on Macports is vanishing to non-existent AFAICS. Even KDE4-based software *still* has many problems. And we do not yet have an official Macports solution to the problem of making Qt 5 and Qt 4 co-exist in an OS X installation, let alone KF5 and KDE 4. So your query is somewhat moot. For most of last year and some of this year, a few of us tried hard to make KDE 4 apps run better on OS X, but we were crying out for help from KDE developers all the time, particularly with regard to the kdeinit/klauncher/kded/kio complex which underlies so much of the software from the KDE Community and which functions badly, if at all, in an OS X environment. "Oh no," we were told, "we are far too busy with Frameworks and KF5 and anyway KDE 4 is now becoming obsolete and unsupported". So help never came. But we still managed to fix a few things in KDE 4 and Marko Käning developed the first CI system for OS X. Some of our fixes were relevant in KF5 and even in Linux, notably https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337742, where Dr Konqi was failing to submit crash reports. A few months ago I spent WEEKS trying to KF5 and Qt 5 to build on OS X and finally gave up. Since then I have gone back to apps programming on KDE 4, which is the only version I can get to run on my Macbook. I know it is a dead-end, but I have been working on features the users have requested. Maybe I can port the apps to pure-Qt4 or even Cocoa… ;-) I think work on Qt5/KF5 on OS X is currently blocked by the QStandardPaths problem and has been for a while. So you see, if anyone has read this far, it is OS X developers who need help, serious help, from KDE developers… not the other way around. FWIW, X11 is pretty much a dead issue on OS X and has been for years, since Qt 4 supported native OS X graphics and Apple stopped releasing X11 (Quartz) with OS X. AFAIK, a few FOSS packages available via Macports or supplied in Apple versions by their developers still use Quartz/X11. Notable among these are Gimp and Inkscape. Cheers, Ian W. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
