KDE 

During the Mac OS X platform meeting here at Randa, the point was made that the current build documentation for Mac OS X is a bit lacking, as e.g. the steps to create an application bundle are only documented somewhere for Kate, Krita, KDevelop, … but in no central place.

I started to writeup a new howto at the mac.kde.org page that utilizes emerge for the heavy lifting like the KDE Windows team uses it.

I updated the bundles, now they are release builds of Kate & KWrite and they contain less frameworks. The size is only one half of the last bundles, less than 50 MB per app. Visit “Get It” for the download links or below.

Mac Application Bundles

• Kate 16.07.70 (Update 1)
• KWrite 16.07.70 (Update 1)

As we now have some binaries available for Windows & Mac, I renovated the “Get It” page.

You now have there links to the latest versions of our binaries (installer for Windows & application bundle for Mac) beside the link to the distribution packages for Linux/BSD/* as provided by our dear packagers.

For building Kate from sources, we now have the building instructions on a separate “Build It” page.

I just created new bundles for Kate & KWrite.

By accident they are a bit large, as stuff as web engine is moved to the bundle, but they should work ;=)

How to create them?

mac.txt in kate.git shows how that works.

But you need a macqtdeploy with the patch for QTBUG-48836.

Download links:

Tomorrow I will start to travel to the Randa Meeting 2016.

I hope I can help to make it possible to spread KF5 based stuff more easy on platforms like Windows & Mac.

Lets see what can be done, will be an interesting week ;=)

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NOTE: Please refer to Get It for up-to-date Windows versions

It took some time but here is now an installer for Kate on Windows.

First the proof :)

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There are still some things that needs fixing. The current installer is built from git master and not from released packages so the translation stuff hat you usually get with the release packages are missing. So only partially translated. Another feature that I’m still missing is the spell-check. I need to still add a/hspell and language dictionaries to get that to work.

After a bit more work, toolbars (and other places ;=) have icons, too. More Kate plugins do work, like the nice project plugin I use the whole day, see:

Updated .dmg files can be found at (alpha quality, only tested on Mac OS 10.10):

ftp://kate-editor.org/cullmann/kate-20151024.dmg

Hi,

with my latest changes in kate.git, icons work, too, on windows and mac, without any qt patch, if you put some qt resource file containing breeze inside your share or Resources folder (one up from the application binary).

mac.txt contains the rcc calls needed to create such a package and all others things you need to run to get .dmg files. (you need Qt 5.5.0 + a recent CMake + XCode with command line stuff enabled)

Hi,

after one week of patching frameworks (and KWrite/Kate), the first success can be seen: a kind of working application bundle for KWrite.

Still no icons, need to set icon theme + search paths right and bundle that, too, but need to investigate more how the icon lookup works.

Kate runs ;=)

But as you can see, we have no icons, but that is as no work was invested into it and not even any icons are installed ;=)

I will maintain a guide how to build it on mac in the kate.git/mac.txt file. At the moment, this is all not that nice. Kate is able to open files via file dialog and it renders OK, modulo some glitches.