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

Sat Sep 20 09:30:43 UTC 2014

> On Sept. 20, 2014, 10:25 a.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> > While we're discussing krdb's function on non-X11 systems:
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> > I seem to recall that the colour theme selector kcm had an effect like it has under X11: applying the new theme to running applications instantly. I can no longer reproduce this. My work on getting this package to OS X has been a very informal approach. It's only been the other day that I realised it could have some value for the transition to KF5, and rounded up everything, tested with the latest kde-workspace version and then made this RR. 
> > So my recollection can be wrong, and it could even be that it's expectable that KDE/Mac doesn't even respect all colour choices for all GUI elements.
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> > For instance, I'm now seeing that simple applications like systemsettings or kwalletmanager ignore (almost) all colour choices, kate and kdevelop use them for the edit views but not lists/frames and digikam uses almost all selected colours (but that app has a builtin theme selector).
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> > I've reverted to kde-workspace 4.11.9 (the one from KDE 4.12.5; MacPorts keeps snapshots one can switch back and forth between) and as far as I can tell those observations are not the result of my changes to krdb.cpp .
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> > Thomas seemed knowledgable about how Qt4 works on OS X; to what extent is this to be expected, and to what extent might we be able to improve this? (If improvement it is on a platform that basically allows only the text selection highlight colour to be customised...)
> > What (missing) things might I look for aside updates to kdeglobal.rc (which I realise I haven't even done yet)?
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     just wondering: shouldn't the color settings be picked from the MacOS settings?

Well, that's a question one could ask. Apart from the fact that leaves us with about just the text highlight colour setting, it all depends to what extent we want to impose the OS X look and feel. If we do, though, we also ought to make it impossible to pick a style other than the "Macintosh" style Qt offers, even if the user selected another style in qtconfig or whatever replacement Qt5 has.
And if we do, that also raises the question to what extent we should or should not drop my request to make Qt's menu-meddling heuristics optional (= guessing what menu actions should go under the Preferences (and About) menu items of Apple's application menu instead of in the author-specified menu).

To be honest, I think we should not. I am a firm believer in user choice and not in knowing better what kind of look and feel s/he prefers. I also think that one of the (perceived) benefits of running KDE applications on OS X could well be the very fact that they allow more adjusting to personal taste than native OS X apps. And since we're not imposing anything (in my vision), nothing keeps a user from making KDE applications look like OS X applications. When I submitted a MacPorts port for the QtCurve style I even threw in theme and colour settings files to help achieve that.

Oh, and concerning the Macintosh style: I don't use it. Somehow it doesn't feel right, at least not on OS X 10.6 . With that style, Qt applications look ... dated, more so than native OS X applications. And the layout is much less compact, which may explain why I find the look dated, but which is also a waste of screen space (even if you have a Retina display ...)

- René J.V.

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On Sept. 20, 2014, 12:05 a.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 20, 2014, 12:05 a.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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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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