[KDE/Mac] kde4 on Tiger using macports

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On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at vcn.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/26/08 kde-mac-request at kde.org wrote:
>> From: Jonas B?hr <jonas.baehr at web.de>
>> Subject: Re: [KDE/Mac] kde4 on Tiger using macports
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 23.12.2008 um 17:58 schrieb Jonathan Stickel:
>>
>>> > I have (finally) built and installed kdebase4 using mapcorts on Tiger
>>> > (10.4.11).  However, nothing runs correctly (if at all).  kwrite is
>>> > very
>>> > slow and ugly.  More importantly to me, dolphin will not start at all.
>>> > I try to start it two ways, and I get
>>> >
>>> > $ open -a dolphin
>>> > 2008-12-23 09:39:58.684 open[24306] Couldn't launch application:
>>> > (null)
>>> >
>>> > $ /Applications/KDE4/dolphin.app/Contents/MacOS/dolphin
>>> > (...prompt returns with no message, and then...)
>>> > <unknown program name>(14342)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the
>>> > D-Bus session server
>>> >
>>> > Not much for me to go with here.  I do have dbus-daemon running.
>>> > Any ideas?
>>
>> I'm also fighting with dbus problems... I did not have simipar
>> problems with kdelibs-4.0.0
>>
>> First, try to build dbus with the "no_x11" variant. (does anyone know
>> *why* x11 is the default?) to prevent X11 from launching each time you
>> start a KDE app.
>>
>> Then, the mac_initialize_dbus function looks in the environment for
>> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS. If this does not exists, it looks for
>> DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET in the current environment and if this
>> fails too it looks in the environment of launchd (via launchctl's
>> gentenv). I don't know where the dbus-daemon should actually be
>> started (perhaps Benjamin could help here, he has written this code).
>> However, you can start it manually and let it set the needed env-vars
>> for you.
>> Try in the terminal:
>> $ eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax`
>> $ /Applications/KDE4/dolphin.app/Contents/MacOS/dolphin
>>
>
> I did find something to this effect after googling a bit.  It kind of
> helped with some apps (kwrite and opening a file), but dolphin was still
> broken, now with a different error message.  Anyway, I've given up for
> now.  KDE3 started working for me again and is just fine for me at the
> moment.
>
> Jonathan
What was the error? Maybe someone here knows the solution and it'll be
useful for others. Or you, when you come back :-)

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