How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

[Dmitri Popov]

Thank you for your reply, Gilles! No need to open a bug, I was just curious. :-)

Best,
Dmitri

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dmitri,
>
> AppImage is a self contained bundle. It's a ISO9660 mount and decompressed
> in memory. So the content is read only. You cannot change the splash-screen.
>
> To see content, try :
>
> mkdir ./temp && mount ./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage ./temp && ls -al
> ./temp
>
> So typically, if you want a new option somewhere to customize splash-screen
> in the future, open a new file in bugzilla.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles
>
> 2017-01-18 10:06 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <lazylegs at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a
>> charm. I wonder, though, whether it's possible to replace the default
>> splash screen with a custom one. In a regular digiKam installation,
>> it's enough to replace the splash-digikam.png file in
>> /usr/share/digikam/data/. But that obviously wouldn't work with the
>> AppImage version.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Dmitri
>
>