5.3 philip5 packages vs. 5.4 app image (Re: Digikam 4.14.0 -> 5.3.0 - big update, some questions)

[Jens Benecke]

Hi,

first, thank you for the packaging at all which make life easier for so 
many of us!

Now, to do my part (help testing and report bugs :-) ): This is the 5.3 
ubuntu ppa Digikam:

And this is the 5.4 appimage:

Differences I can see:

- smaller default / UI fonts (more similar to my Ubuntu settings),
- every toolbar item has an icon (with consistent styles),
- sidebar tab dimensions are more consistent and no missing icons
- the appimage does not integrate into the global menu.

Does the appImage use different KDE resources / defaults / config file 
locations than the PPA packages?

Regarding video, Gilles has already replied, it seems to be an appImage 
issue (or rather gstreamer issue).

Thank you!


Am 21.11.2016 um 16:30 schrieb Philip Johnsson:
> I just made an update of digikam 5.3 with appstyles support. Not sure 
> how much that will change what you are asking for.
>
> When it comes to icons I can't update icons that are provided by KDE 
> framworks as that would make package conflicts. As for now I also have 
> to rely on icons that provided by the old digikam 4 as long as I keep 
> the new digikam 5 packages in parallel with the old digikam 4 packages 
> to be abled to be install in the same system as many users of my PPA 
> have requested for some time.
>
> Which icons are you having problems with when it comes to your 
> installation that you see whe you use digikam 5?
>
> Not sure I can do anything about play, paus and stop control icons for 
> videos. I'm not sure it's a packaging issue but maybe something for 
> developers or how QT5 is built for Ubuntu.
>
> /Philip
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Jens Benecke 
> <jens-digikam at spamfreemail.de <mailto:jens-digikam at spamfreemail.de>> 
> wrote:
>
>>         Hi,
>>         I have to correct this - menu integration works but the
>>         original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it
>>         manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it
>>         should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.
>>
>>         However, I have found some others in the meantime:
>>
>>         * video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play
>>         controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played
>>         back.
>>
>>         * when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the
>>         popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race
>>         condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very
>>         slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works
>>         most of the time.
>>
>>         Are these issues known?
>>
>>
>>     none of that as i know...
>
>     Hi,
>     I now tried the 5.4 app image (vs. philip5’s 5.3 packages) and
>     there are some differences.
>
>     In the 5.4 appimage,
>     - video playback does not work at all, it works fine in 5.3
>     (without pause/repeat) and OS X (with full controls)
>     - the icon set (for menus and buttons) seems consistent and
>     complete (vs. missing icons and different sizes in 5.3)
>     - the fonts look like KDE default fonts (5.3 seems to use far too
>     large fonts for everything)
>     - Bug #370150 regarding Geolocation seems fixed
>
>     So, if I had a wish … I would like a 5.4 Ubuntu package that uses
>     the complete icon set and sane KDE fonts (or some advice on how to
>     set the KDE fonts on my Ubuntu system without having to install
>     the whole of Kubuntu - or just make KDE/Digikam use the Ubuntu
>     font settings). ;-)
>
>     Philip, can you help?
>
>     Thank you!
>
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