Missing menu items after update to 5.2

Sun Oct 16 16:41:27 BST 2016

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Gilles Caulier

2016-10-16 17:36 GMT+02:00 Jan Wolter <jan at wolter.re>:

> Hello Gilles,
>
> I started from a fresh account. My productive photo library is located on
> another PC with digikam 4.14. On this PC I have compiled dk v5, but never
> used or tested it before. Today, I created a photo library for test
> purposes and initially configured digikam. After that, I get the problem
> described in my last mail.
>
> Btw: What is AppImage and what does it have to do with my problem?
>
> Best regards,
> Jan
>
>
> On 10/16/2016 05:22 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>
> If you start from a fresh account, can you reproduce the problem ?
>
> Typically, i would to be sure that problem is not located in configuration
> file backported from digiKam 4.x.
>
> Note : i just finalize AppImage bundle for digiKam. It's not yet complete,
> as for ex, the autodecetion of camera do not work yet, but as i can see 90%
> of application is suitable.
>
> Please do not use yet in production. Use a dedicated account for testing
> purpose.
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzeiVr-byqt5SUZRMGtWa3VCUDg
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2016-10-16 17:11 GMT+02:00 Jan Wolter <jan at wolter.re>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I compiled the actual digikam version from git on my Linux Mint 17.3
>> (based on Ubuntu 14.04) and have a similar problem.
>>
>> When I start digikam from terminal I see the splash screen and afterwards
>> the digikam window as expected:
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91057768/digikam-window-ok.png
>> (Btw: I have actual dk v5.3 installed but it appears splash screen from
>> version 5.1 instead of actual splash screen ->
>> https://www.digikam.org/splashcreens. Does anyone know, why?)
>>
>> But when I create a panel launcher that just calls /bin/digikam, I see no
>> splash screen but instead a small window with following text: "Loading
>> tools.5.3.0":
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91057768/digikam-window-
>> loading-tools.png
>> When digikam has started the menu bar seems to be broken, as there are
>> only two entries "Settings" and "Help":
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91057768/digikam-window-not-ok.png
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/29/2016 07:20 PM, Erick Moreno wrote:
>>
>> Thank you very much, Gilles.
>>
>> Worked perfectly :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> The menu entries missing in Image Editor are older editor plugins.
>>>
>>> With 5.2.0, all editor plugins have been transformed as pure tool loaded
>>> at the same time than editor. There are not loaded at runtime as classic
>>> plugin.
>>>
>>> The menu option are now hardcoded in editor code.
>>>
>>> I suspect that your menu description file based on XML has a problem.
>>>
>>> Do you have file ~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/digikam/digikamimagewindowui.rc
>>> ? If yes, rename it and try again.
>>>
>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>
>>> 2016-09-29 18:11 GMT+02:00 Erick Moreno <erickmoreno at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At *15s* I'm trying to show the menus and they are empty. *This is the
>>>> problem*.
>>>>
>>>> At *36s* I open Showphoto using "Open with" menu, and all the menus
>>>> are there. I put this on the video to show the difference.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Gilles Caulier <
>>>> caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, but where is the dysfunction exactly in your video ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>>>
>>>>> 2016-09-29 17:52 GMT+02:00 Erick Moreno <erickmoreno at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I made a small video. Here: https://goo.gl/photos/dRpysvtk8MhuFLAa8
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also noted some other thing. The default keyboard shortcuts to the
>>>>>> tools that are under the missing menus are working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My custom keyboard shortcuts apparently was lost after the upgrade.
>>>>>> Thats why I said before that the shortcuts was not working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Gilles Caulier <
>>>>>> caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you take a screenshot of the dysfunction an share it through the
>>>>>>> cloud...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2016-09-29 16:11 GMT+02:00 Erick Moreno <erickmoreno at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2 clicks on the image or pressing F4 on the keyboard.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If I right click on the image and open with showfoto, even inside
>>>>>>>> the digikam, it works well too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Philip Johnsson <
>>>>>>>> philip.johnsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> How do you open showfoto 5 when it doesn't work with the menus?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> /Philip
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Erick Moreno <
>>>>>>>>> erickmoreno at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I made some other tests and find out an interesting thing.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If I open showfoto5 directly from command line (without edit
>>>>>>>>>> command from digikam) it works correctly, the menus are there. I can open
>>>>>>>>>> an image and edit it without problems. The same if I right click on an
>>>>>>>>>> image and choose open with Showfoto5.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That does not make sense to me.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Erick Moreno <
>>>>>>>>>> erickmoreno at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> No Philip,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The menus are clickable but they are empty, they simply don't
>>>>>>>>>>> have any option, not greyed out.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> To some of these features I know the keyboard shortcuts, and
>>>>>>>>>>> these shortcuts are not working neider.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Philip Johnsson <
>>>>>>>>>>> philip.johnsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You should have functions in those menus in showfoto 5.2 but
>>>>>>>>>>>> they are greyed out if you have no image shown in showfoto. These menus
>>>>>>>>>>>> should have about the same content of feature that you should find in
>>>>>>>>>>>> digikam 5.2. Do you see the functions there (in digikam 5.2) in those menus?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> /Philip
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Erick Moreno <
>>>>>>>>>>>> erickmoreno at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm a happy Digikam and Philip's PPA user from a long time
>>>>>>>>>>>>> now. Yesterday I upgraded from Digikam 5.1 to 5.2 and everything seemed to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> work well, as always.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> But, today I noticed that showfoto is not showing the content
>>>>>>>>>>>>> of the  menus: Color, Improve, Decorate and Effects (I'm translating from
>>>>>>>>>>>>> portuguese).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Also, I'm getting this message at the terminal:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> void DBusMenuExporterPrivate::fillLayoutItem(DBusMenuLayoutItem*,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> QMenu*, int, int, const QStringList&): No id for action
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is this a bug or I did something wrong?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thank you guys
>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>> *Erick Moreno*
>>>>>>>>>>>>> google.com/+ErickMoreno
>>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://google.com/+ErickMoreno/about>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>> *Erick Moreno*
>>>>>>>>>>> google.com/+ErickMoreno <https://google.com/+ErickMoreno/about>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> *Erick Moreno*
>>>>>>>>>> google.com/+ErickMoreno <https://google.com/+ErickMoreno/about>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> *Erick Moreno*
>>>>>>>> google.com/+ErickMoreno <https://google.com/+ErickMoreno/about>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> *Erick Moreno*
>>>>>> google.com/+ErickMoreno <https://google.com/+ErickMoreno/about>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Erick Moreno*
>>>> google.com/+ErickMoreno <https://google.com/+ErickMoreno/about>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Erick Moreno*
>> google.com/+ErickMoreno <https://google.com/+ErickMoreno/about>
>>
>>
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