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[James Linder]

On 18/08/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org 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.

A final comment - I really do not like apples way of hijacking the menu.
with qt apps it is easy to apply

    menuBar()->setNativeMenuBar (false);

which restores sane:not-flame-bait behaviour
James