Freeze related to export to remote storage

[Simon Frei]

Embarassing that I did not think of that - I almost never use a file
manager, but still. Thanks for your guidance.
Is it ok if I open a bug report (wishlist) asking for such a rewrite,
even though this is understandably not a priority? Just to have
something to refer to on the debian bugtracker.

On 18/12/16 13:38, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> use Dolphin file manager and D&D file from DK to target in Dolphin.
>
> The tool must be re-written in fact.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2016-12-18 13:37 GMT+01:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com
> <mailto:freisim93 at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Ok, so if I understand you correctly this tool is just kept for
>     legacy reasons but might even be completely removed in the future?
>     Is there a way to copy files from digikam to some path that is not
>     part of any collection? For me this is an important feature (e.g.
>     to copy a specific selection of pictures using tags/filters to a
>     usb stick for presentation on a different computer).
>
>
>     On 18/12/16 13:02, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>     It miss in AppImage because it use KIO which use a lots of run
>>     time dependencies not solvable with AppImage. Also, KIO do not
>>     work under OSX and Windows. So, for me there is no future of KIO
>>     in digiKam. digiKam will become more and more a pure Qt application.
>>
>>     Typically, we drop all KIO dependencies in digiKam & co excepted
>>     this one. We don't have planed to port this tool as pure Qt5
>>     implementation.
>>
>>     Do no ask me which run time dependency is missing. KIO is a waste
>>     of time to work properly. I lost more weeks to try to bundle this
>>     tool in all digiKam bundles.
>>
>>     Gilles Caulier
>>
>>     2016-12-18 12:27 GMT+01:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:freisim93 at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>         Hi
>>
>>         When I use debian packages or compile digikam myself, it
>>         freezes when on clicking "Select target location..." in the
>>         "Export o Remote Storage" dialog. The message on the console
>>         is GLib/Gdk related, so I assumed it is a debian dependency
>>         issue. I tried to verify this by using the appimage
>>         (5.4.0-01), but there is no "Export to remote storage..."
>>         entry in the "Export" menu there. So what is the status of
>>         that tool, i.e. why is it missing in the appimage?
>>
>>         For reference this is the command line output on freeze:
>>
>>         (digikam:2410): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type
>>         'GdkWindow'
>>
>>         (digikam:2410): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0'
>>         failed
>>
>>         (digikam:2410): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_ensure_native: assertion
>>         'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
>>
>>         and the backtrace: http://pastebin.com/xLSevGhy
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>         Simon
>>
>>
>
>

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