[Kde-nonlinux] KDE with OT/Mac

[Dirk Mueller]

On Son, 29 Jun 2003, r9siy wrote:

> I was aware of the fink project, but was not really considering them as their 
> implementation requires use of an X server, I was asking if there was any 
> effort to get KDE apps to compile against the native QT/Mac, which would 
> remove the need to use an X server.

Thats not entirely true. There is work going on to make it native. However, 
this is quite a bit more work than just a couple of #ifdef's. For example 
the system of our loadable components has to be changed, because it relies 
on ELF semantics which do not exist on OSX. This work is currently done in 
our development tree which will become KDE 3.2. Furthermore KDE consists of 
several platform specific parts that expect X11. These have to be rewritten 
for OSX. 

See for example http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=105667834721632&w=2

I don't know if they already provide a fully patched KDE that will work on 
OSX. I'm sure they need more help though. 

> >Yes, there is effort for KDE on OSX - see the Fink project. Currently there
> >are patches to achieve this, but upcoming KDE 3.2 will probably include most
> >if not all patches already so it should work out of the box then.


-- 
Dirk