[KDE/Mac] kde-mac Digest, Vol 76, Issue 7

[Jonathan Schultz]

> It is possible at the moment to install KF5 ports through MacPorts,
> but it requires using a special port repository, as well as a patched
> version of Qt5. Setting up MacPorts to use such a repository isn't
> very hard, and additional testers are welcome. I'm in the process of
> upgrading a number of these ports, so I'm not going to point you to
> my own repository just now.

Is there any documentation out on this? I mention it because I recently 
managed to build okular under KF5 for Mac from scratch using 
kdesrc-build. But I didn't realise that there were already KF5 ports out 
there.

In fact it was when my okular/KF5 build failed to display PDFs that I 
went back to square one to see if a "standard" Macports install of 
okular would work, and thus my question on another thread: 
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2016-March/004563.html

> What would be your development interest in KF5/Mac? Do you just want
> to make the applications work as optimally as possible, with a
> feature-set that is as close as possible to the feature set on Linux?
> Or would you want to focus on making applications that users can
> interact with as much as possible as they interact with typical
> native applications? The former doesn't exclude every aspect of the
> latter, but making standalone, all-containing application bundles
> still requires a lot of additional work because it is so different.

My own interest is in producing software bother leverages okular's 
existing features (especially its ability to display a wide variety of 
file formats) and is portable at least to Linux/Windows/OSX. I do want 
to target it at regular users so want it to be as familiar as possible 
to them in its UI. But that consideration is secondary to producing 
something that works. I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to developing 
for Mac so any pointers would be most welcome.

Cheers,
Jonathan