Review Request 120287: [OS X] make kde-workspace build

[René J.V. Bertin]

> On Sept. 20, 2014, 3:51 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > CMakeLists.txt, lines 223-239
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120287/diff/5/?file=313819#file313819line223>
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> >     out of interest: this is now a huge NOT WIN32 block with two NOT APPLE blocks. If I see correctly, what remains being built on Apple is:
> >     * kcheckpass
> >     * qguiplatformplugin_kde
> >     
> >     Somehow I doubt kcheckpass will work on MacOS (it uses PAM) or is of any need (only used by kscreenlocker_greet in ksmserver which is not built). And qguiplatformplugin_kde should not be of any use on MacOS either because it's the Qt plugin for a Plasma session and shouldn't (TM) be used on other platforms.
> >     
> >     So if I see correctly you could just merge the whole thing into a
> >     if(NOT WIN32 AND NOT APPLE)
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> René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>     Are you very sure about that? I see things related to KFileDialog and KColorDialog, and I don't see why those would only be relevant from inside a Plasma session...
>     
>     What would be the best place where I could put some kind of output expression that I ought NOT to see if indeed the platform plugin isn't used?
>     
>     I also remember someone (Thomas?) mention it in the context of doing an override of a Qt setting at a very low, early level during application initialisation.
> 
> Thomas Lübking wrote:
>     You would want to alter qguiplatformplugin_osx (not sure about the _osx name part) since that is what will be loaded on OSX if you're eg. running kwrite in the default OSX shell.
>     You will (hopefully) get the OSX native filedialogs and color pickers from any Qt application for this, not the foreign KDE ones.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     exactly as Thomas writes: this is the platform plugin for the kde workspaces. On MacOS you don't have the kde workspaces and thus don't want to load it. You want to get the mac os plugin to have integration with mac os.

Understood, and indeed I haven't been able to find evidence of qguiplatformplugin_kde to be invoked. The name is a bit misleading if it's only used for workspaces. I cannot find a qguiplatformplugin for OS X, though; are you sure there is one in KDE4?

BTW, the systemsettings control panel does show the Workspace Settings kcm, which has 1 active control: `Show Informational Tips`. Would you know if that control does anything - if it modifies `kdeglobalrc` I presume it at least might?


- René J.V.


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On Sept. 20, 2014, 2:52 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 20, 2014, 2:52 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and kde-workspace.
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> Repository: kde-workspace
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> Description
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> A few rather straightforward patches to make the relevant bits of KDE4's kde-workspace build and function on OS X.
> The main interest is having the systemsettings control panel to control the various relevant KDE settings among which desktop search, fonts, colours and even style.
> The oxygen style builds and looks good but shows some updating glitches due to compositing.
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> I'm submitting this patch partly in hope it may be useful in bringing kf5-workspace to OS X, one day.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 195f99c 
>   kcontrol/CMakeLists.txt fc666b1 
>   kcontrol/krdb/krdb.cpp 36fc99c 
>   kcontrol/style/CMakeLists.txt d832b20 
>   libs/CMakeLists.txt c0576fe 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120287/diff/
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> Testing
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> On OS X 10.6.8 and 10.9.4 with KDE/MacPorts (4.12.5 and more recently kdelibs git/master, 4.14.1).
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> File Attachments
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> copy of the diff file saved locally, which had no tabs when I uploaded it. Checksum: 3989cdd46af3c891e570974d66c330403dcd41c4ee5e17a372fa385080cbabd1 
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/09/20/b212730f-6258-4277-851c-226bc0673aa1__patchreview-20140920.patch
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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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