wiki:KDEProblems

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Problems of KDE software

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 KDE's integration on MacPorts forward.

Special maintainer/developer information - which is not covered in the 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.
See e.g. ticket search query entitled as 'Tickets marked with tag "KDE" (somewhat outdated)'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 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 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 be-shell's ticket 21 on SourceForge.

Tickets for build system of KDE software (cmake)

NOTE: Currently the patch given in #41321 is a must-have to build any cmake-based ports!

#69209
cmake-1.1 portgroup: Remove CodeBlocks extra generator
#68874
cmake portgroup: can't read "cmake._archflag_vars": no such variable
#66953
cmake @3.24.3: Does not compile with SDK 10.12
#62698
restrictive patch to CMake's find frameworks algorithm
#59780
cmake fails to build on Leopard 10.5: error: 'shared_mutex' is unavailable: introduced in macOS 10.12
#53615
cmake : ignore policy CMP0025
#53201
cmake: doesn't recognize macports-clang (No known features for CXX compiler)
#48652
JRE installation dialog when updating cmake
#44237
CMake @3.0.0_2: configure and build pick up local frameworks
#44232
patch to have cmake use -dynamiclib in CMAKE_SHARED_MODULE_CREATE

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 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 !!! )
#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)

#44247
[NEW] Suggestion for a new port rekonq
#43711
[NEW] Yakuake packaging
#43569
[NEW] New port KTp - KDE Telepathy
#27931
KDE4 PortGroup: generic icons in Applications folder
#26587
[NEW] koffice2 seems to have been forgotten


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 on OSX

The KDE community has plans for CI of KDE software on OSX as it is 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 KDE's build infrastructure is based on it.

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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