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(Updated Dec. 2, 2015, 10:38 p.m.)


Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X, KDE Frameworks and Valorie 
Zimmerman.


Changes
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This revision is a probably heavy-handed attempt at implementing Martin's 
suggestion to re-use as much code as possible using inheritance. There's less 
code that can be reused than I'd have liked, and I have a strong impression 
that my implementation actually does quite a few things twice. Meaning once in 
the parent class and once in my own class, despite probably overly liberal use 
of `virtual` keywords. Then again it seems hard to avoid this given that the 
parent KdePlatformTheme class has KHintsSettings and KFontsSettings instances, 
and my KdeMacTheme has KHintsSettingsMac and KFontsSettingsMac instances.
Clear this isn't yet my strongest subject yet, so I hope I haven't made a 
complete mess of this :-/

I've made the private members protected, in order to be able to inherit them, 
and I've introduce a `KdePlatformTheme::fontType()` method so that it becomes 
possible to have a central `QPlatformTheme::Font -> 
KFontSettingsData::FontType` translation, and then do a platform-specific 
lookup in the dedicated `m_fontsData` array. Maybe that `fontType()` method 
should be in `KFontDataSettings`?

New in this revision is also `KFontDataSettingsMac`, which exists in order to 
obtain the default fonts from the system (though the sizes are hardcoded, 
currently). The current algorithm isn't very satisfactory, as it turns out to 
be a more or less known Qt issue that it doesn't provide this information 
reliably on OS X. Surprise, surprise :) I'll have to look if this information 
can be obtained through Cocoa.

The reason to do this dynamically (and leave the default colour palette to 
whatever Qt sets it to, for now) instead of using a predefined config file is 
that this information can change between OS versions. OS X 10.11 introduced a 
new system font (or 2), and the default colours aren't set in stone either (and 
users can chose the `Graphite` or default "Aqua" theme, as well as the more 
recent "Dark mode").


Repository: frameworkintegration


Description
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The KdePlatformTheme plugin can be enabled on OS X with a minimal patch to Qt5; 
all that is required is to include the `qgenericunixservices` and 
`qgenericunixthemes` components in the build, and to append `"kde"` to the list 
returned by `QCocoaIntegration::themeNames()` for instance under the condition 
that `KDE_SESSION_VERSION` is set to a suitable value in the environment.

This will allow KF5 and Qt5 applications to use the theme selected through KDE 
if FrameworkIntegration is installed and KDE_SESSION_VERSION is set, which 
seems like a sufficiently specific set of conditions that is easy to avoid by 
users who prefer to use the Mac native theme.

While requestion the KDE theme is also possible through `-style kde` or `env 
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=kde` the use of the KdePlatformTheme plugin appears to be the 
only way to get the full theme, including the font and colour selection. In my 
opinion it is above all the font customisation which is a very welcome feature 
for Qt/Mac; by default Qt applications use the default system font (Lucida 
Grande 13pt or even 14pt) throughout. This is a good UI font, but not at that 
size (and most "native" OS X applications indeed use a range of smaller sizes, 
depending on role.

It does have introduce a number of regressions, which the current patch aims to 
address. The most visible and problematic of these regressions is the loss of 
the Mac-style menu bar and thus of all menu items (actions).

The fix is straightforward : on OS X (and similarly affected platforms?), an 
instance of the native Cocoa platform theme is created through the private API, 
and used as a fallback rather than immediately falling back to the default 
implementations from `QPlatformTheme`. In addition, methods missing from (not 
overridden by) `KdePlatformTheme` are provided on OS X and call the 
corresponding methods from the native theme. It is this change which restores 
the menubar and even the Dock menu functionality.
One minor regression remains but should be easy to fix (elsewhere?): the 
Preferences menu loses its keyboard shortcut (Command-,).

Given the fallback nature of the native platform instance I have preferred to 
print a warning rather than using something like `qFatal`, above all because 
the message printed by qFatal tends to get lost on OS X. I can replace my use 
of `qWarning` with a dialog giving the choice between continuing or exiting the 
application - code that would be called in the menu methods because only there 
is it certain that the application actually needs a menubar.

In line with experience and feedback from the KDE(4)-Mac community I have 
decided to force the use of native dialogs rather than the ones from the 
KdePlatformPlugin.

In addition I set the fallback value for `ShowIconsOnPushButtons` to false in 
line with platform guidelines, and ensure that the autotests are not built as 
app bundles.


Diffs (updated)
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  autotests/CMakeLists.txt 7c2129c 
  src/kstyle/CMakeLists.txt bc26667 
  src/platformtheme/CMakeLists.txt 23f590e 
  src/platformtheme/kdeplatformtheme.h 97d09df 
  src/platformtheme/kdeplatformtheme.cpp 80dbcb7 
  src/platformtheme/kfontsettingsdata.h 4b92c7d 
  src/platformtheme/khintssettings.h ec064d3 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126198/diff/


Testing
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On Mac OS X with Qt 5.5.1, KF5 frameworks 5.16.0 and QtCurve git/head.

I have not verified to what extent my use of a private `QGuiApplication` API 
links builds to a specific Qt version (I consider that nothing shocking and a 
minor price to pay).
>>> Do I need to add some glue to the CMake file so that it will warn if the 
>>> private headerfiles are not available? Apparently no changes were required 
>>> to find them.


File Attachments
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purely native OS X theme
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/11/30/650d0da7-52b3-40d1-a1f9-cb610494cf77__Screen_Shot_2015-11-30_at_15.42.31.png
native theme but with `-style kde`
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/11/30/72e2a6aa-2a7c-465b-b404-fc1e52b6fc69__Screen_Shot_2015-11-30_at_15.43.02.png
using the KDEPlatformTheme
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/11/30/309e5995-74fa-42fb-a6f3-936cedbf5246__Screen_Shot_2015-11-30_at_15.43.31.png
on Linux, using a purely "native" theme
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/11/30/eaa1d907-bf05-4ca2-821b-83dc062aea04__QtCreatorNativeLNX.png
KDEPlatformTheme with the "macintosh" native theme selected
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/01/de55a91f-3500-4db8-8a3b-d252fd7ea169__Screen_Shot_2015-12-01_at_13.52.35.png


Thanks,

René J.V. Bertin

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