Hi,

I have some KDE apps on a Macbook Air, installed via macports, and am seeing some issues. On Dolphin, I can't seem to scroll smoothly with the trackpad/mousewheel. Small scroll amounts don't do anything, and when I scroll very quickly then the scrolling happens in abrupt jumps. Click-dragging the scrollbar works perfectly, just wheel-scrolling.

Also, when using sftp/fish kioslaves, it doesn't prompt me for authentication, forcing me to embed my password in the url, like so: sftp://username:password@my.server.url. This happens both in Kate and in Dolphin.

Are these known issues or is there a way around? thanks

Hmm - which version of KDE are you using here?
Also, is "kuiserver" running on your system?

Hi,

Thanks for answering. "About KDE" in dolphin > help says 4.11.2. And kuiserver does appear to be running.

Is "libssh" available in Macports?

Yea it seems to be:

$ port installed | grep ssh
libssh @0.5.5_0 (active)

Has kde-runtime been installed on your system?

Yeah it is: kde-runtime 4.11.2.

Also, I'm really more concerned about the dolphin scrolling issue than the fish:// issue - that latter isn't quite as frustrating

In terms of the scrolling issue, is this a system with a Retina display by any chance?
For the password issue, if you open a terminal and run the following command what output do you see?

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qdbus org.kde.kded /modules/kpasswdserver

I don't actually know how to check for sure if it's a retina display, but the "about this mac" thing "display" section says "Built-in Color LCD Display". Not sure if that rules out retina display?

The qdbus command gives "Service 'org.kde.kded' does not exist.", interestingly.

That explains the password entry issue, as kpasswdserver is unavailable. Please try running "kded4" and see what is output.
In terms of your system having a Retina display - I would suggest checking the Apple site concerning the model number of your system, which should reveal if it does or not.

Starting kded4 (via /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/kded4.app/Contents/MacOS/kded4) did indeed solve the password problem Thanks greatly!

And with some research it looks like Macbook Airs don't have retina displays, so that should be a no.

Hmm. I'm stumped in regards to the scrolling issue i'm afraid - Qt should follow the usual OS X settings there, so i've no idea why that isn't working correctly. If you start other KDE applications (like KWrite for instance) do they behave correctly? It might be a Dolphin specific bug...

I also use Kate heavily, and scrolling works perfectly there, so yeah it seems to be dolphin specific. It's kind of a shame because dolphin is so powerful compared to Mac's default file browser.

Thanks a bunch all the same for your help At least I got one problem out of the way.

Okay, if scrolling works correctly in Kate, then it is definitely a Dolphin specific bug - please file a bug report at bugs.kde.org mentioning that the version of OS X, Qt and KDE you are using so the developers can investigate this further. Dolphin uses a custom view for performance reasons, which may explain this issue.