building kde4-baseapps (10.6.8)

"René J.V. Bertin" rjvbertin at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 16:34:37 PST 2014


On Mar 02, 2014, at 23:02, Ian Wadham wrote:

> A lot of the portability of the libraries stems from the underlying Qt 4
> library (see 'port info qt4-mac'), which is a very good fit on OS X and

That's what I'd hope, indeed! Pity that the same portability hasn't been assured in the non-graphics departments...

> I think that is pretty much out of the question, unless you run a virtual
> machine.  I am not sure where Linux is up to with dual-booting on Mac.
> When I last looked, about two years ago, it was possible with Windows
> (using Apple's Boot Camp) but not with Linux.

Not really what I'm looking for. Running a VM comes close, but would require more than my "lowly" 8Gb to be comfortable...

> Running simple KDE apps (i.e. apps that do not depend too much on KDE
> desktop background processes, daemons, etc.) is fine, because of library
> portability (see above).

Do those background processes use that many non-portable features?

> If all else fails, I can recommend LibreOffice, which is inter-operable
> with MS Office (they can use each others' documents, slide shows
> and spreadsheets).  I have been using LibreOffice (and Open Office
> before it) for many years --- on Windows, KDE/Linux and now OS X.

So have I, until using the X11 variant (1.12) became impossible, and I had to find an alternative that handles PS figures correctly.
But yes, if necessary I'll go back to using OpenOffice.

Cheers,

René


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