[Qt-creator] Installation (and behaviors) on Mac OSX

[Adam Higerd]

Pim Schellart wrote:
> Dear Qt Creator Creators,
> 
> I noticed that the installation script for Qt Creator on Mac OSX 
> deviates from OSX standards (or at least customary behaviour). As you 
> probably know most OSX applications are installed using drag and drop to 
> the Applications folder. This action automatically prompts the user for 
> his or her password to give permission to copy the application to the 
> Applications folder. Installation scripts normally also prompt for a 
> password but the Qt Creator installer does not. It simply refuses to 
> install (due to lack of permissions). This makes it hard for users 
> familiar with OSX to install Qt Creator. May I suggest to change this.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Pim Schellart

It might be possible to accomplish this for a release version, by 
requiring you to install Qt separately first, but the Qt libraries need 
an installer too. ;)

On the other hand I'm not quite sure why Qt Creator's installer isn't a 
standard package file to be handled by the native Installer application. 
Qt itself is distributed that way and it works fine.

If we're talking about Mac behaviors, though, the keybindings need a lot 
of help. Using the F-keys is a bad idea to say the least; while Macs do 
HAVE the F-keys, you have to hold Fn to use them on a laptop. This isn't 
such a big deal because they can be remapped by the user, but to point 
out a bigger problem: Ctrl+Tab doesn't work on Mac because Ctrl is 
mapped to Cmd and Cmd+Tab is "switch applications." The Mac shortcut for 
the "switch window" behavior is Cmd+`, and there's no configuration for 
that shortcut in the preferences window.

/s/ ahigerd