Please edit Macport's KDE instructions

[Ian Wadham]

The instructions Macports gives you whenever you install a KDE module
appear to be incorrect and misleading, so please can they be changed?
When I followed them, I got an error message and not a single KDE app
would run.

Eventually I found and followed some instructions for DBus at:
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Mac_OS_X/MacPorts#Installing_the_base_requirements
which worked.  These will get DBus to run whenever the Mac is booted.

An alternative is given in:
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2011-June/000752.html
which presumably starts DBus as the local user rather than root.

I have also added kdeinit4 to
Mac OS X's SystemSettings->Accounts->My Account->Login Items, so now
my Macbook is ready to run KDE apps as soon as it has started up.

I wrote to kde-mac at kde-org mailing list about the DBus problem.  See threads:
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2011-June/000746.html
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2011-June/000747.html

On that list, John Layt has offered to review and revise the pages re Mac,
 Macports and KDE whenever he has time.  So far, he has started a new
page at http://community.kde.org/Mac?id=build which outlines the
present state of affairs.

There was a page http://mac.kde.org/?id=build which contained the
same outdated KDE instructions as Macport has, but John Layt has had
it discontinued and re-routed to http://community.kde.org/Mac?id=build
(the new page mentioned above).

I do not know what the best set of KDE instructions for Macports would
be (I am new to the Macbook), so maybe you could talk to the guys at
kde-mac.  Maybe it would also be an idea to include in the Macports
Guide a small section on installing KDE.

Meanwhile, I am hugely enjoying running the KDE games on Macbook
and would like to start fine-tuning some of them to run a little better in
Mac OS X, using Macports as a base KDE installation.  Also, thanks to
Macports, I am able to carry on using KMyMoney to keep track of my
finances on the Macbook.

All the best, Ian W.
KDE Games developer,
Melbourne, Australia.
Author of KGoldrunner and Kubrick.