I realized that I hadn't set the path to the libs correctly in the previous test, which is why the about dialog crashed immediately.
Now I have resurrected the previous state, I see the about dialog and I can select the author tab in there. Here is what lokalize told me now when selecting Authors before it crashed after pressing the Close button: lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! lokalize(81766) KWidgetItemDelegateEventListener::eventFilter: User of KWidgetItemDelegate should not delete widgets created by createItemWidgets! QKqueueFileSystemWatcherEngine: error during kevent wait: Bad file descriptor KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = lokalize path = /opt/macports-test/Applications/KDE4/lokalize.app/Contents/MacOS pid = 81766 KCrash: Arguments: /opt/macports-test/Applications/KDE4/lokalize.app/Contents/MacOS/lokalize --nocrashhandler I wonder how interesting the line QKqueueFileSystemWatcherEngine: error during kevent wait: Bad file descriptor is. That I hadn't seen in the AboutBoxCrash app in https://bitbucket.org/mkae/kde-tests/issue/1/aboutboxcrash-only-on-mac-os-x >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<