Kstars 3.5.5 error on Mac with case-sensitive file system

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Thank you for the report and fix Stuart, that was very helpful!

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 7:20 AM stuart at com <stuart at randomuseless.com> wrote:

> I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this but...
>
> I had a problem with Kstars 3.5.5 on my Macbook.  It would not start at
> all.  If I right-clicked the icon and selected "Open" it would pause a few
> seconds then the Apple Crash Report screen would appear.  I wouldn't even
> get the Kstars splash screen before that happened.  3.5.4 and earlier
> versions were working before this.
>
> I use the case-sensitive file system option in MacOS and suspected that
> could be the issue as I've seen that sort of behavior a few times with
> other apps.  I found that the file...
>
>     /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/Resources/qt.conf
>
> ... has a line: "Plugins = PlugIns".  The actual directory name is
> "Plugins", not "PlugIns".  After changing it to "Plugins = Plugins", the
> app starts up just fine.  So it might be useful to change that in future
> releases for the hand full of people like me that use a case-sensitive file
> system.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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