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Here we list the current problems of KDE software on Mac OS X and then try to find people that can fix them. For this we will organize IRC meetings and search a date via Doodle.

List of current problems

(Short description, link to reviewboard or git commits)

Hot topics:

The never-ending meinproc issue (test patch suggested by René in comment 11) - Q: Are we still lacking a reproducible way to trigger these crashes?
Ian's RRs for kcrash, kinit and Dr. Konqi (they have been committed)
René's RRs for KDE's wallet (kdelibs for KDE4 (committed) and on KF5 kwallet & kauth (both pending))
Project idea: How about a Spotlight backend to replace Baloo in OS X, so that we can have a "semantic desktop" without having to run another indexing framework? (Brad's post on KDE-MAC)
Parallel installation of qt4 and qt5 (MacPorts' ticket #44193)
How to get arguments "into" applications not launched from a command line but through LaunchServices? (discussion on KDE-MAC)
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CI system:

Qt5:
- Suggestion to introduce an application for testing config paths and access to files installed by cmake or created at runtime (perhaps a a nice example app for the KF5 book team?)
- Automating CI for OSX would require the CI configuration to be done using a Jenkins job-builder
- Move documentation from MacPorts' wiki to KDE?
- ...

Qt4:
- Since KDE 4 is going to be alive for quite some time to come, especially on OSX, it might be useful to get an OSX/CI system for Qt4/KDE4 up and running, which would very likely require to integrate all the MacPorts-specific patches in port qt4-mac
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Qt5:

Urgently required patch for QStandardPaths suitable for OSX needed to make most KF5 apps run successfully (especially on OSX/CI)
On MacPorts it is necessary to create ports for all KF5 frameworks as a first step (which surely requires setting up a KF5 port group, as it was needed for KDE also) analogously to Harald Fernengel's Homebrew recipes
Qt5's sources need a patch which enables theming on OSX (see KIcon thread on K-F-D, BUT according to P@sNox it could be, that installing oxgygen-icons already fixes this issue -> one needs to make sure that QIcon::searchPaths() finds the installed theme, this also requires to remove the dependency to port qt4-mac in the oxygen-icons port)
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 * The never-ending [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261509 meinproc issue] (test patch suggested by René in [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261509#c11 comment 11]) - ''Q: Are we still lacking a reproducible way to trigger these crashes?''
-* Ian's RRs for [https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119497/ kcrash, kinit] and [https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119498/ Dr. Konqi]
+* Ian's RRs for [https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119497/ kcrash, kinit] and [https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119498/ Dr. Konqi] (they have been committed)
-* René's RRs for KDE's wallet ([https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119838/ kdelibs] for KDE4 and on KF5 [https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119844/ kwallet] & [https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119847/ kauth])
+* René's RRs for KDE's wallet ([https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119838/ kdelibs] for KDE4 (committed) and on KF5 [https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119844/ kwallet] & [https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119847/ kauth] (both pending))
 * Project idea: How about a Spotlight backend to replace Baloo in OS X, so that we can have a "semantic desktop" without having to run another indexing framework? ([http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2014-April/000983.html Brad's post on KDE-MAC])
 * Parallel installation of qt4 and qt5 ([https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44193 MacPorts' ticket #44193])
-*  How to get arguments "into" applications not launched from a command line but through LaunchServices? ([http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2014-September/001502.html discussion on KDE-MAC])
+* How to get arguments "into" applications not launched from a command line but through LaunchServices? ([http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mac/2014-September/001502.html discussion on KDE-MAC])
-* Jeremy suggested that KDE developers could put their own Portfiles into their MacPorts' user directories thus allowing to build ports on currently 4 different OSX versions using the MacPorts-buildbots (but it needs a test, whether user dirs will be picked up by the buildbots)
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 * Urgently [http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2014-July/017474.html required patch for QStandardPaths] suitable for OSX needed to make most KF5 apps run successfully (especially on OSX/CI)
+* On MacPorts it is necessary to create ports for all KF5 frameworks as a first step (which surely requires setting up a KF5 port group, as it was needed for KDE also) analogously to Harald Fernengel's Homebrew recipes
 * Qt5's sources need a patch which enables theming on OSX (see [http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2014-September/018804.html KIcon thread on K-F-D], BUT according to P@sNox it could be, that installing oxgygen-icons already fixes this issue -> one needs to make sure that QIcon::searchPaths() finds the installed theme, this also requires to remove the dependency to port qt4-mac in the [https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/kde/oxygen-icons/Portfile oxygen-icons port])
 * ...