KDE4.2 now in macports

For anyone interested, KDE 4.2.0 is now in macports. port install away...

That's kinda cool! Does it actually run the full desktop environment on Apple's X server, or is it only the applications that are available?

3rdalbum said: That's kinda cool! Does it actually run the full desktop environment on Apple's X server, or is it only the applications that are available?

No idea but kdebase, kdebase-runtime, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdeedu etc all seem to be there. http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=kde&page=2&pagesize=50

Maybe someone can test it and give feedback... Dunno about things like Phonon, Plasma etc

I fiddled around with macports a year ago & wasn't too impressed with the experience.

Nothing worked properly for me. Though it may well have been my own fault.

With macports you can install wine, and lots of good stuff. KDE4.x is native OS X. So all KDE4 apps run and behave like a normal OS X application.

Doing 'sudo port install kdepim-kde4' installs Kontact, which places a little kontact.app application in your Application folder.

Here is a screenshot:

http://xs136.xs.to/xs136/09062/kontactedit353.png

Why not just get Parallels or VMware and run a full copy of whatever distro of Linux you want in there, along with a full and uncompromised D.E.-of-your-choice experience?

MikeTheC said: Why not just get Parallels or VMware and run a full copy of whatever distro of Linux you want in there, along with a full and uncompromised D.E.-of-your-choice experience?

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Because it takes more time and effort to do something like that?

Or dual boot Arch & OSX, using OSX if/while there is still a need; as I do.