Several sites suggest dolphin runs on macos, eg Wikipedia.
However i cannot find a download link. Can you really run dolphin on macos?
What kind of dolphin you are talking about?
The KDE related, most people would probably talk about here is the KDE file manager: Dolphin (file manager) - Wikipedia
That obviously runs on linux.
Than there is a (Android) Browser, a emulator, the Animal (the first thing Wikipedia points to) and maybe even other things I don’t know about?
Edit: If just your title is wrong
There seems to be no current MacOS build of the File Manger Dolphin
Just Linux and Windows at the Moment.
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Sorry yes should say macos
Could have been in the past and just fell out of maintenance.
If someone with enough interest (and a MacOS device) decides to build for it and distribute, it might be available again.
Are current KDE Frameworks buildable for MacOS?
There are several KDE Applications for MacOS listed with versions even newer than what I have currently on Arch, built 2 days ago, so I would guess so(?).
Don’t know why dolphin for MacOS was dropped, though.
Since I started contributing to KDE in 2019 I cannot remember anyone working on Dolphin for MacOS specifically. That being said, I have heard of some people using Dolphin on MacOS and the Dolphin source code has some mentions of MacOS to make it buildable there. There is a good chance that anyone who knows how to build software can take the Dolphin source code, build it for MacOS, and use it there without any further modifications.
If that works, we can automate it and offer an official download of Dolphin for MacOS. The infrastructure is already there because of other KDE software available for MacOS.
I just built & compiled dolphin for MacOS and it seems to actually package & install dolphin as a dolphin.app in my apps folder. I did have to manually compile & install most of the KDE frameworks though.
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