kdepim4: KDE windows (kalarm) -- un-switchable-to, un-clickable (unpredictably)

[bejodavid]

Hi!

I have managed to install kdepim4 on MacOS 10.14.6 (on a MacBook) to be able to use Kalarm. I have come pretty far (jumped through the hoops described at wiki:KDE so the window content doesn't flicker anymore etc.).

Right now my problems are the following:

1. it seems that the pop-up alarm windows (and in general, all Kalarm windows) more often then not seem to behave as if something was in front of them - they receive neither keyboard nor mouse input. (If I switch to a completely different application then back to the problematic window, that sometimes solves this and I can at least close it -- but even then, they are not brought in front of their parent window. I can always move them with the mouse though!)
   E.g., in the screenshot I can't click on the edit window (which is a child of the alarm window), nor on the alarm message window, nor on the main Kalarm window (bottom right)

2. even when I _can_ get the focus on a window, the alt+key combinations don't have any effect, e.g., in the alarm message window I can't trigger _C_lose either with option-C or control-C or command-C. (Maybe because all the option-letter key combinations globally seem to produce weird characters, like option-C: ç etc...?) -- this applies to all the buttons everywhere, i..e, _E_dit, _D_efer, or _T_ry in the alarm editing window.

It would be great to solve these issues, because aside from these Kalarm seems to work pretty fine!

System info:

my@machine:~/x> sudo port version
Password:
Version: 2.6.2
my@machine:~/x> sudo port help
my@machine:~/x> sudo port info kdepim4
kdepim4 @4.14.3_5 (kde, kde4)
Variants:             debug, docs

Description:          KDE4 groupware suite including a Mail client, addressbook, organizer and groupware integration.
Homepage:             https://www.kde.org

Extract Dependencies: xz
Build Dependencies:   cmake, pkgconfig, automoc
Library Dependencies: qt4-mac, phonon, kde4-runtime, nepomuk-widgets, kdelibs4, kdepimlibs4, kdepimlibs4-kioslaves, glib2, shared-desktop-ontologies,
                      libassuan, kdepim4-runtime, link-grammar, baloo
Platforms:            darwin
License:              GPL-2+ and LGPL-2+
Maintainers:          Email: bjoern.ricks@intevation.de
                      Email: nicos@macports.org, GitHub: NicosPavlov
my@machine:~/x> sudo uname -a
Darwin adnmachu393.local 18.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0: Tue Aug 20 16:57:14 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.271.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64