[KDE/Mac] Review Request 126161: OS X housekeeping

[René J.V. Bertin]

> On April 10, 2016, 10:31 a.m., David Faure wrote:
> > I liked what I was seeing in this patch .... until I got to the horrible code duplication introduced by kinit_mac.mm. This is not the way to go.
> > Yes #ifdefs are a pain, but code duplication is 1000 times worse. In Qt, the _mac.mm files only contain code that is mac specific.
> > 
> > You could move all the code that is common between mac and linux into a separate helper file (say kinit_common.{cpp,h}), or you could organize it this way:
> > kinit.cpp/kinit.h -> shared code
> > kinit_unix.cpp -> linux/bsd-specific
> > kinit_mac.mm  -> OSX specific
> > (and the windows guys can make a kinit_win.cpp if they need to, although I'm not sure they use kdeinit at all)
> > 
> > Code duplication is the worst enemy of maintenability, I will never accept a patch that duplicates lots and lots of code. But other than that, many of the changes in this patch seem very sensible, I will definitely approve it once the code duplication is gone. Thanks!

I must admit that I hadn't yet done a side-by-side diff of kinit.cpp and kinit_mac.mm . That indeed looks horrible, and makes me wonder why I went this route.

A quick look suggests that 
- `launch()` could go into a platform-specific file, with an occasional other function like `show_message_box()`
- most other specific bits in `kinit_mac.mm` correspond to parts in `kinit.cpp` that already have an `#ifdef HAVE_X11` or `#ifdef Q_OS_LINUX` or equivalent. Putting the Mac-specific bits into an `#elseif` doesn't really make things more complex - qualitatively speaking at least.
- lots of the functions that could go into a common file that would be combined with Linux, Mac/OS X (and MSWin) specific implementation files are marked static. Most if not all of those would have to become non-static, but it seems there's no real point in limiting the visibility of those functions anyway?

Merging kinit.cpp and kinit_mac.mm back together and splitting off just the `launch()` function would certainly be the easier and quicker solution, but which do you prefer?


- René J.V.


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On April 6, 2016, 7:16 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated April 6, 2016, 7:16 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kinit
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> Description
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> This patch addresses several issues with the OS X adaptations:
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> -1 replaces the obsolete Q_OS_MAC with Q_OS_OSX
> -2 builds the relevant applications `nongui` instead of as app bundles
> -3 turns klauncher into an "agent" by setting `LSUIElement` to true programmatically
> -4 ports a patch that has been in MacPorts' `port:kdelibs4` since October 14th 2009, which prevents a kdeinit crash that is caused by calling exec after `fork()` in an application that has used non-POSIX APIs and/or calling those APIs in the exec'ed application. This patch (originally by MacPorts developers Jeremy Lainé and Jeremy Lavergne) rearranges call order and uses a proxy application to do the actual exec.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kdeinit/CMakeLists.txt ae619f7 
>   src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp ca18603 
>   src/kdeinit/kinit_mac.mm PRE-CREATION 
>   src/klauncher/CMakeLists.txt a8e6c3e 
>   src/klauncher/klauncher.h 53c0803 
>   src/klauncher/klauncher.cpp baa5649 
>   src/klauncher/klauncher_main.cpp 710c889 
>   src/start_kdeinit/CMakeLists.txt 46d6cb3 
>   src/wrapper.cpp 9cb0a71 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126161/diff/
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> Testing
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> On OS X 10.9.5 with Qt 5.5.1 and KF5rameworks 5.16.0 as well as Qt 5.6 and 5.20.0 . With this patch, starting `kded5` will launch kdeinit5 and klauncher5 as expected, but `kdeinit5 --kded` does not yet launch `kded5`. This is probably acceptable for typical KF5 use on OS X (kded5 can be launched as a login item or as a LaunchAgent) but I will have another look at why the kded isn't started.
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> I am not yet able to perform further testing; practice will for instance have to show whether point 2 above needs revision (apps that need to be installed as app bundles).
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> Similarly it will have to be seen whether point 3 above has any drawbacks. Applications running as agents do not show up in the Dock or App Switcher. Thus, klauncher will not be able to "turn itself into" an application that does have a full GUI presence with my current modification. I don't know if that's supposed to be possible though.
> NB: I have been building the KDE4 klauncher in a way that makes it impossible to construct a GUI at all, so I'm not expecting issues in KF5 as long as klauncher's role hasn't evolved too much.
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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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