On 3 January 2015 at 11:15, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday January 03 2015 10:53:39 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > >>Just for the record, according to plans, we think about Kexi on Mac as >>a native, regular, shiny, standalone mac app. Let's see what's this >>interesting year brings. > > Then why isn't it included in the OS X product set?
Because Kexi on Windows and Mac had no maintainers (maintainer, not packagers) so has been frozen. Then we knew it's better to do the Qt5/KF5 port first. This is a complex app that manages your data, many things have to be tested :) > And if you say native, does that mean it'll accept documents dragged onto > its icon or served to it via Launch Services (as in opening an associated > document type in the Finder) just as it would on Linux? Ditto for objects > dropped onto its window? > Yes, yes. Given there're enough of Mac fans that want to builld cool apps with Kexi (using Javascript) I think we can own the niche where MS Access refuses to be (not available on Mac). And show how dated Filemaker is in some aspects. > Qt applications can indeed do that on OS X, but it's my understanding that > they have to declare the proper principal class (one provided through Qt) in > their Info.plist, which is not done by the current KDE build system, and I > don't think kdelibs has the required glue either. > > It's been on my list to look into this, but that never got high priority, > partly because I fear I'd have to do it all over again for KF5, partly > because I rarely miss the feature in the applications I use (and the way I > use them). PS: The fact that Kexi (by design) uses no traditinal documents and related workflow only helps; it's largely a Qt-only app, XMLGUI issues disappeared in version 2 when Kexi stopped to use it. On Mac we'll want to rethink the menu to avoid associations with Windows-like look & feel. It's not black-white decision though, various apps such as Lightroom use extra menus too and sidebars, mac menu is there but also the extra menu switches global view modes (Develop, Slideshow....): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TO0UXwZIW_E#t=33 -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
