newbie
Lawrence Velázquez
larryv at macports.org
Fri Aug 16 19:51:43 PDT 2013
On Aug 16, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/08/2013, at 9:29 AM, ajtiM wrote:
>> Another question is about KDE4 (I saw in pots.ow it works? I was KMail user very long time.
>
> Most KDE 4 apps work quite well in Mac OS X using Macports. The underlying
> Qt 4 library is qt4-mac and it uses native Mac window and widget styles. KMail
> could be a problem. It is now bound up with other KDE personal information
> apps, Akonadi and an SQL server. You cannot get it as stand-alone. I have
> asked about that on the kde-devel list. So I ended up using Mac OS X's Mail app.
>
> Installing the whole KMail, Kontact, Akonadi, etc. suite on Mac OS X and getting
> it to work is quite an effort and I have not heard of anybody succeeding with it.
>
> I also suggest you install KDE stuff in easy stages at first because there are
> loads of dependencies: first qt4-mac, then kdelibs4 and finally your choice
> of KDE app(s) --- and keep an eye out for the notes on the post-installation work
> you need to do. If you missed them, you can run "port notes" to see them again.
There's also this page on the wiki that you should go through:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/KDE
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