I've never used KDE on OS X. (kile was probably *the* reason I chose KDE on Linux - on OS X, I use TeXShop.) I've never known anybody use KDE on OS X.
But as far as this bug is concerned, OS X integration should follow automatically from Linux integration. Both use CUPS for printing. (Unless Apple have stopped using CUPS in later versions of the OS. I haven't checked, but I would be extremely surprised if they have.)
To reiterate, I still haven't heard any reason not to use the available patch as a temporary, albeit hackish, work around. "Get somebody else to apply it" or "somebody else could apply it" is not a reason. I'm not saying it is a poor reason. I'm saying it is not a reason at all. It is simply irrelevant.
Given that the promised fixes have not made it into 4.8 and that QT 5 is likely to have just the same setup, complete with bugs, as QT 4, I suspect that a "proper" fix is years, probably decades and possibly centuries, off. That makes the case for the temporary fix all the more compelling.
I've never used KDE on OS X. (kile was probably *the* reason I chose KDE on Linux - on OS X, I use TeXShop.) I've never known anybody use KDE on OS X.
But as far as this bug is concerned, OS X integration should follow automatically from Linux integration. Both use CUPS for printing. (Unless Apple have stopped using CUPS in later versions of the OS. I haven't checked, but I would be extremely surprised if they have.)
To reiterate, I still haven't heard any reason not to use the available patch as a temporary, albeit hackish, work around. "Get somebody else to apply it" or "somebody else could apply it" is not a reason. I'm not saying it is a poor reason. I'm saying it is not a reason at all. It is simply irrelevant.
Given that the promised fixes have not made it into 4.8 and that QT 5 is likely to have just the same setup, complete with bugs, as QT 4, I suspect that a "proper" fix is years, probably decades and possibly centuries, off. That makes the case for the temporary fix all the more compelling.