Qt/Mac KDE Call for Help

aqsalter writes "Benjamin Reed of Fink fame is calling for help porting KDE to Mac using Qt/Mac. Interested parties should swarm the KDE-Darwin mailing list. KWrite for Mac here we come!"

Comments

Re:But....why?

[Trurl's Machine]

Spoken by someone who obviously hasn't used OS X or a Mac very much or at all. The whole reason the Mac interface is so good is subtle features and deep use of use (some of which was lost in the move to X, but will return at some point, no doubt).

I disagree (myself being a person who uses OS X a lot; I type these very words on an iBook 800). Indeed, the guy does not capitalize Mac correctly, but his point remains valid. Power users usually require extensive customization of their working environment. They just know what the want and they don't need any wisecrack from Redmond or Cupertino telling them what they can or cannot do. Customization options of a vanilla MacOS X installation are next to nonexistant. Yes, there are some third party hacks like Tinker Tool, but even with them, MacOS X is still less flexible than MS Windows. It's not important for Joe Shmoe, but I can understand the frustration of a power user, who can't even customize a bloody desktop theme. KDE for MacOS X could be a Holy Grail for these people - OS of their choice running on a machine of their choice WITH A DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT OF THEIR CHOICE.

You miss the point by a mile

[AvantLegion]

You talk about KDE's extensive ability to be customized, but you take the flawed approach of thinking that people that enjoy this option use every last capability of it.

This is not true.

The point of KDE customizing is so that people that want one or two things to be a very specific way can make it that way and be happy.

Very few people customize every last thing on the desktop. But many people customize a few things, and for different people, it's different things they want changed.

You don't have to customize everything to appreciate KDE's deep and broad customizing options. All you have to do is customize a couple of GUI features in a way that other DE's don't allow, and you'll see the benefit immediately.

But would it behave like a Mac app?

[anarkhos]

'cause not a single Qt app does so far