plasma-desktop on other environments (bis)

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 21 May 2016, René J.  V. Bertin wrote:
> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> 
> FWIW, a good part of the KCMs you seem to think I include on OS X are in
> fact excluded because X11 isn't provided.
> 
> > The following are redundant with the system-provided ones:
> > 
> > * componentchooser
> 
> As long as KDE code uses its own way (or a Qt-provided method, I don't
> know) to determine what application to use this will continue to make
> sense.
> 
> > * translations
> 
> No, KDE translations aren't linked in any way to the way the system handles
> these, at least not on OS X. This is especially true for applications that
> cannot or shouldn't be provided as app bundles (anything ecm_mark_nongui).
> 
> > * fonts
> 
> No, KDE has its own set of font roles which are independent of the system,
> but which are used (expected) in KDE interface design. Without support for
> them, applications look just awful on OS X because most text elements will
> use what Qt considers the platform default font (Lucida Grande 13). The
> result is an appearance as if designed for the visually and motor impaired
> (large, spacey interface).

to me it seems many of those issues just look like bugs in either the osx qpa 
or to the osx qstyle, that should be fixed upstream in Qt as benefit of every 
Qt app, other workarounds are just.. workarounds


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Marco Martin