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Native KDE Port for Mac OS X

Posted by Kurt Pfeifle on Thursday 01/Jan/2004, @18:08
from the not-only-integrative-but-also-konquering-desktop dept.
A few days ago Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick and Benjamin Meyer, a.k.a. icefox, succeeded in making Konqueror, the KDE swiss army knife, run natively on Mac OS X. Now they have an update: KOffice, Kate, Konsole, and a few other KDE applications work natively on Mac OS X. That means, they don't use an X server, like the GUI apps such as those ported from Unix and Linux to Mac OS X by the Fink project do, but they base on the native Qt/Mac library to run KDE in the native Aqua environment. They have solved all major porting problems, with only a few rough edges left to polish. Congratulations on this milestone achievement!

Screenshots of KSpread , KWord, Konsole, various KDE games, KDE Wallet, KTips as well as Konqi look pretty cool on Mac OS X. Note that the KDE icons also appear in the Apple equivalent of Kicker.

It seems that RangerRick and icefox have not only satisfied, but have heightened the expectations now: Mac people seem to be rather keen on also seeing KDE killer applications like KDevelop and Quanta ported to Mac OS X... ;-)

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X independency lib
by chris on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @01:47

what about a X independency Libary wich translates all calls of KDE apps to X or MAC ? wie can add more displays later like directx or directfb or xouvert or what you cann imagine.

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Re: X independency lib by Phisiker on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @02:20

Re: X independency lib by Justin on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @03:22

Re: X independency lib by Anonymous on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @06:48

Re: X independency lib by Mr_boots on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @14:29

Re: X independency lib by Yo Daddy on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @13:35

Re: X independency lib by Mike on Friday 23/Sep/2005, @01:42

Re: X independency lib by mikeyd on Friday 23/Sep/2005, @01:20

Hooray!
by Anonymous Coward on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @04:25

For truly cross-platform toolkits!

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Re: Hooray! by Southpaw on Wednesday 17/Nov/2004, @15:21

But the UI elements ...
by Riot Nrrrd™ on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @07:29

Look at the Kate snapshot. The buttons all look like XP. XP != Mac.

Are those buttons all from Qt or something? They need native Quartz buttons/etc.

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Re: But the UI elements ... by Anonymous on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @08:29

Re: But the UI elements ... by blbbottom on Saturday 21/Feb/2004, @14:25

Re: But the UI elements ... by anon on Saturday 21/Feb/2004, @15:09

Re: But the UI elements ... by ik on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @08:42
Re: But the UI elements ... by Jon on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @10:17

Re: But the UI elements ... by silvestrij on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @14:46
Re: But the UI elements ... by me on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @14:58
Re: But the UI elements ... by clark goble on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @15:42

Mac user
by andre on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @10:56

As Mac users are used to the shareware principle perhaps we could raise funds. The gpl is compatible with the ASP guidelines for shareware.
We could ask for donations to fund the development. And even better, Apple could pump development money into KOffice as they did with KHTML. On the homepages on most download pages I don't see a reference to the KDE donation system.

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Re: Mac user by ac on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @12:32

Re: Mac user by Southpaw on Wednesday 17/Nov/2004, @15:07

how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by Anton Velev on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @11:37

Hey people, how about native Cocoa KDE port instead of Qt one?

This thing does not seem to me native, becuase it's not Cocoa but uses Qt instead.

Freeing the KDE from Qt (at least for the Mac in the beginning - as (thanks to Apple) they already did to Safari/KHTML/KJS) is freedom from GPL!

Freeing KDE from Qt is a way out from the already very serious GPL issue, which is the reason for companies to choose GTK instead of KDE. My understanding is that KDE libs are LGPL and the only problem is with Qt, once KDE libs have no GPL dependency - no GPL problem.

Safari is a good example for a 100% GPL free code.

Btw what is the license of this KDE port - GPL or LGPL? (because if its still LGPL Apple or someone else could just free it from GPL)

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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Datschge on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @12:06

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Kurt Pfeifle on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @12:15
Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Anton Velev on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @12:16

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Jonathan Bryce on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @14:44

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by :-| on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @18:39

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by d_i_r_t_y on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @18:59

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by ac on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @00:41

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Anonymous on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @01:13

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by ac on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @01:41

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by ac on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @01:43

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Datschge on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @02:02

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by ac on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @02:31

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by agsnu on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @03:28
Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by cm on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @06:44

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by ac on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @08:59

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Datschge on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @23:24

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Ralf Habacker on Thursday 12/Feb/2004, @16:06

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Anton Velev on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @03:02

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Kurt Pfeifle on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @12:13

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Rayiner Hashem on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @12:21

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Ingo Klöcker on Tuesday 06/Jan/2004, @01:15

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Anonymous on Tuesday 06/Jan/2004, @01:58

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Anton Velev on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @13:22

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Kurt Pfeifle on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @13:57
Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Datschge on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @15:41
Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by OK on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @11:59

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by OK on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @11:48

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Steven Fisher on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @16:36

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Ranger Rick on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @19:38
Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Tanner Lovelace on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @20:50

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Iuri Fiedoruk on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @02:08

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Anton Velev on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @02:56

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Iuri Fiedoruk on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @03:57

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Anton Velev on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @04:36

Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BSD! by Kurt Pfeifle on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @06:26

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Anton Velev on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @07:43

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Datschge on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @07:58

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Kurt Pfeifle on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @08:16

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Datschge on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @22:50

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Kurt Pfeifle on Sunday 04/Jan/2004, @02:20

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Ray on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @09:31

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Mike on Thursday 11/Mar/2004, @02:03

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Kurt Pfeifle on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @08:35
Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by Dude on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @12:18
Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS by ghostdoguk on Saturday 24/Jan/2004, @16:47

Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BSD! by OK on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @12:12
Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BSD! by Iuri Fiedoruk on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @14:03
Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BSD! by Ingo Klöcker on Tuesday 06/Jan/2004, @01:42

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Anonymous on Thursday 08/Jan/2004, @02:16

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Ray on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @08:51

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Ray on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @08:40

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Iuri Fiedoruk on Saturday 10/Jan/2004, @01:18

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Rayiner Hashem on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @12:10

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Ray on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @09:08

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by Ingo Klöcker on Tuesday 06/Jan/2004, @01:30

Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port? by OI on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @11:42
Re: to all by Anton Velev on Sunday 04/Jan/2004, @00:29

Re: to all by Kurt Pfeifle on Sunday 04/Jan/2004, @03:26

Re: to all by james coffey on Tuesday 10/Feb/2004, @22:38

Re: to all by Kurt Pfeifle on Wednesday 11/Feb/2004, @05:54

Re: to all by Derek Kite on Sunday 04/Jan/2004, @07:18

Re: to all by Ray on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @09:18

Keep the GPL flying
by cyclop on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @14:16

I'm glad to use KDE *also* (not only) because it's a GPL-based desktop.
I think we must fight to build an ass-kicking ***free*** software desktop, not fight to make it another non-free desktop.
If you want an ass-kicking, non-free desktop, there's Aqua for you ;)

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cross platform compatible?
by anonymous on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @16:07

Dumb question: Isn't QT supposed to be fully cross platform compatible? For the uninitiated, what sort of stuff needs to be ported?

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Re: cross platform compatible? by Kurt Pfeifle on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @16:42

Re: cross platform compatible? by agsnu on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @03:28

Re: cross platform compatible? by Ranger Rick on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @19:39

Re: cross platform compatible? by Tanner Lovelace on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @20:57

Re: cross platform compatible? by Nicolas Goutte on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @07:28

Re: cross platform compatible? by Nicolas Goutte on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @07:31

Koffice will only be usefull when the filters work
by Geert on Sunday 04/Jan/2004, @17:16

This could increase the number of potential developpers and users tenfold.
But people will only start to see the benefit of using Koffice when the import filters work as good as those of openoffice.

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Ranger Rick...
by Area Man on Monday 05/Jan/2004, @10:27

...By chance are you the Ben Reed from Bloomington, IL?

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Re: Ranger Rick... by Ranger Rick on Monday 05/Jan/2004, @14:56

Re: Ranger Rick... by Area Man on Tuesday 06/Jan/2004, @10:17

Re: Ranger Rick... by Ranger Rick on Tuesday 06/Jan/2004, @10:39

Re: Ranger Rick... by anon on Tuesday 06/Jan/2004, @16:10
Re: Ranger Rick... by Area Man on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @09:39

Koffice for My iBook
by danny on Thursday 25/Mar/2004, @22:57

I read somewhere that I can run Koffice native in Mac OS X, and here it looks like some have done that. What do I need to do - I'm new. I looked around the KDE website and wasn't sure which items to download. Help?

Many thanks.

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Re: Koffice for My iBook by schlesi on Friday 09/Apr/2004, @03:17

installer
by addythegeek on Sunday 10/Jul/2005, @16:59

apparently therers at least 1 stable koffice, or atleast somethings stable, where can i get an installer? now I know that this is a linux program, and so is made as difficult as possible to install, but mac users arent lik you linux users. we like "Simply drag the icon to the Applications folder"or "click next to install". So whats the point of porting to Mac if mac users cant install it?

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